On Thursday 27 May 2010, Mark Wendt wrote: >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... > Otoh, despite what the better half says, I can put a seat on it, along with a reverse for 3 1/2 big ones, and I am about to. Used mtd, 32", needs seat cover & brakes that work. >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >--- > >_______________________________________________ >Emc-users mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >
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