Gee, I wonder who that could be... ;-) Mark
On 05/26/2010 04:07 PM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: > 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: >> 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
