Gene, Do you have a design in mind? I know a man with a machine shop. :) Stuart
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]>wrote: > On Wednesday 26 May 2010, Mark Wendt wrote: > >On 05/26/2010 12:31 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> And even then it lives on with OOP. Your module becomes my module > >>> becomes his module becomes... > >> > >> Yeah, and each succeeding generation thinks the previous ones work is > >> crap, so he fixes it, only adding 2 more bugs for every one he thinks he > >> is fixing. > >> > >> 2/3rds of the back yard knocked down, hip joints screaming. I am gonna > >> go buy a rider yet... But it will have to be after a figure out how to > >> revoke Dee's backseat drivers license. She thinks all I need is the > >> exercise. ;-) > > > >Well, of course they do. We thought the same thing when we were younger! > > > >Is your push mower one of those self-propelled ones? A lot of the old > >aches and pains went away when I switched to one of those. > > > Yup, a nearly $400 Cub Cadet. But OSHA or somebody has gotten into the > lawn > mower design business in the name of safety, and mandated that the skirt > around the blade be made deep enough to protect the errant toe that may get > under it. Unforch, this also lowers the skirt so damned cloise to the > ground > that a 1" bump in the dirt catches on it, and the backup process is often > done only with brute force jerks of a hundred pounds or so to unstick it > from > the 1" high hill its hung on. In the end, the self propelled is not that > much of a labor saver. They have also changed the drive flange to blade > fit, > so that one cannot fit a stack of fender washers to lower the blade, which > to > get the same height, would let one raise the deck, which it has quite nice > latching facilities to do. The blade is now locked to the blade adapter, > something I would much rather see as a clutch with 3" belleview washers for > clutch tension like they did 40 years ago. > > nope, they have to make it proprietary. Bastards. > > >mark > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >--- > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Emc-users mailing list > >[email protected] > >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > > -- > Cheers, Gene > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Lie, n.: > A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one > discovered to date. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > -- dos centavos ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
