Better than Double Blades

[bob]

If double blades are twice as good as single blades. Then four blades per spindle would be 4 times as good ,right? It will take the mower a little longer to get to full speed. And a little longer to stop. You just need a longer blade bolt and a good supply of grease. It should sound like a C-130 taking off. This is the best April Fools joke that I can think of right now!

[BRL]

Well we can be sure that Bob remembered to set his clock forward, as it is obvious that he lost an hour of sleep. :)

[HOMER]

Hey, don't knock it till you try it! :D

[kutnkru]

So that would be two gator blades with fins up and two gator blades with fins down to keep clippings concentrated in the middle of the baffles correct????

LOL
Kris

[grassyfras]

i dont get it maybe becaus im the youngest one hear 14 hahaha and u old farts are to advance for me have a good one

[HOMER]

I'll old fart you, and maybe fart on on you ya young whippersnapper!

What's not to get, put down the Nintendo and wake up! :D

[skyphoto]

Heck,
Just throw a grinding wheel of an industrial grinder on yur spindles and file those grass blades to a purty blunt end!

Peace!

[kutnkru]

Heres the skinny:

When you install two blades for the double blade set up the fins or "tops" of the blades are facing the top of the mower deck.

If you were to install four. Are ya with me, 1..2..3..4.. Good glad your still here:)

Then, you would you turn the top two blades upside down so that the fins of these blades would be facing the grass.

My pun was (you do know that a pun is a play on words -yes, I hope so) that by installing the blades in this manner, that it would create an airflow into the center of the deck to grind up the clippings.

Point being that if the double blades installed correctly gives you lift into the air, that by reversing them at the top it would push them downwards and into the airflow at the middle.

Class D-I-S-M-I-S-S-E-D!!!!

does anyone hear VH on top of the world??? or is it just me -LOL

Kris

[MikeGA]

Grinding wheel? How about try putting a circle saw blade down there? I have some circle saw blades that are about 21". HEHEHEHE

[grassyfras]

youngin here again yea i didnt know what a pun was but thx for telling me and i think 4 blades would be stupid to do it would maess up the mower anyway im going to stick going over the yard twice just using 1 blade on each spindal

[Eric ELM]

I thought I would wait until April 2nd to reply to this so you won't think I'm joking too. You are exactly right on the 4 blades doing 4 times as good, but on leaves, not grass.

As I posted before, this past fall the leaves were coming down like normal, but we got a hard freeze, then rain, then wind and they dropped big time this one week. The leaves were so deep that I almost thought I was going to have to get my JD and lawn vac out of retirement.

I ended up putting a Gator on the bottom to throw leaves in, a mulcher blade to throw the leaves out, a Gator to throw the leaves back in and on top of that a Magic Mulcher (an attachment with chains) and put all this on each spindle on my diesel Chopper. I would not try this on any mower that has spindles with aluminum housings. Actually don't even try it. As they say on TV, Don't try this at home. ;) I'm not saying this was a good idea, or a safe idea, nor do I recommend it to anyone reading this, but it has been done and it worked great. Doubles will normally chop up leaves and that is what I went back to the next week. I figure if my spindles handled that load, they will handle anything.

As I said, it probably wasn't a smart move, but I did have all blades balanced. Please don't flame me to bad.