On Wednesday 26 May 2010, Stuart Stevenson wrote: >Gene, > Do you have a design in mind? I know a man with a machine shop. :) >Stuart > Yeah, I think the real cure is to jack it up on its nose and cut 3/4" off the rear apron, which is separate from the circular blade surround. This is where the SP mechanism is but it should be plenty strong even after 3/4" was trimmed and the mower then capable of being tipped up in front and pulled back a hell of a lot easier. Either that, or figure out how to make a reverse gear. Its this rear length overhang that is behind the actual axle that tips down that 3/4" and digs into the dirt. I have a 4.5" grinder that should handle that nicely. After doing the gross cut with a sabre saw & a hacksaw blade in it.
Now where did I put that round tuit? >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 > -- 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) Some don't prefer the pursuit of happiness to the happiness of pursuit. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
