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... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
