Severe blade damage...

[jajwrigh]

Anyone ever severly damage a blade?! I ran over a brick as a kid with my lawnboy and did some serious damage to the blade. I also borrowed my stepfather's craftsman tractor and went up an edge of sidewalk and badly damaged the blade, the sidewalk, and the engine even shut off. I tried to convince him it never ran too well. Sorry I am losing it....being trapped in my house and all.

 

[Albemarle Lawn]

At least two dozen/season

Go to the scrapheap for being too bent to resharpen.

Just part of business. Steel=collateral.

KB

 

[vipermanz]

it's steel, it's gonna wear down and out

 

[tiedeman]

the last time I damaged some seriously was about 2 years ago I was when mowing a vacant lot and ran over a circle of rocks that was forming a camp fire pit

 

[bastalker]

That rock that my deck has been clearing all season, all of a sudden grew an didn't clear the deck anymore....hmmmmmm

I might have forgot to raise the deck from 3" to 3 1/2"though, I cant remember!!

 

[Richard Martin]

A couple of years ago I was mowing a yard for the first time of the season. It bordered a huge reed patch. Did you know that a rusty horseshoe peg is the same color as reeds when they're first starting to grow? Well I'm cutting through these new reed shoots and all of a sudden there is a loud whack noise and the mower starts shaking. I pulled the mower forward and there was a 1" thick horseshoe peg sticking out of the ground. I looked at the mower deck and the blade was destroyed plus the spindle was broken into several pieces. So I drove 60 miles to the Dixie dealer to pick up a new spindle and 3 hours later I was cutting again.

 

[impactlandscaping]

A few years ago, I caught one of those corkscrew dog anchors with 10" of steel cable in the blades of a WB.Before I knew it, it chopped the top off the anchor, and wrapped the steel cord around the spindles.Ruined the gators, that was it.

 

[Norm Al]

while your sitting in your house not doing anything,,,,,INVENT something that wont allow a blade to be damaged!

 

[KenH]

I dont think you are a Lawn Maintenance Professional if you never damaged a blade.



I once hit the water main shutoff.

 

[charlies]

Ken, that must have been spectacular. if i were the customer (who invariably peeks at you from behind the curtains) i would be laughing my ass off!

little off topic, i once had an employee sharpen and replace the blade on a pushmower. got out to the first job, i took the push mower to the back of the property to do a fenced area. while i was cutting the blade fell off. the blade and bolt were directly underneath the deck, the washer was nowhere to be found. after a good deal of searching, we discovered that it had gone completely through both sides of a nearby (about 20 yards away) mobile home. fortunately it was abandoned. someone could have died.