On 05/26/2010 01:08 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:

> 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.

Yup, bastages.  You could always machine a new adapter for that flange...

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