• @[email protected]
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    1242 months ago

    It’s actually really important to keep your lawnmower blades sharp. Makes the whole process much easier, and the engine won’t have to work as hard.

      • @someguy3
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        52 months ago

        Uh does sharpening really do enough to unbalance it?

        • @[email protected]OP
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          122 months ago

          One or two times probably not but more than that likely will. Especially if there were major dents you grinded away. You can buy a cheap plastic tool to check the balance and then just grind away from the non blade side to balance it out.

          • @someguy3
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            22 months ago

            If you grind the same on each side without trying to get rid of any dents, it would still add up?

        • @[email protected]
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          52 months ago

          It can, yes. Remember these are rather heavy blades spinning really fast, so it doesn’t take much.

        • @linearchaos
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          12 months ago

          It really depends on your definition of balanced and how bad someone is at sharpening.

          The blades are torqued down on there, if it’s a combustion engine mower, nothing’s you do to this blade sans taking an inch off is going to make much more vibration than the motor will itself.

          The biggest worry is that you put enough vibration into it too cause it to loosen the blade.

          If you’re even half reasonable sharpening you’re just taking off a fraction of a gram.

    • @PM_Your_Nudes_Please
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      122 months ago

      It also helps keep your grass healthy, because a dull blade will rip the grass instead of cutting it. If your grass clippings look frayed, it’s because they’re ripping.

      • @[email protected]
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        82 months ago

        I usually keep a pair of blades. The one off the mower gets sharpened for next time and then I do an oil change + swap yearly.

    • @Addv4
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      112 months ago

      Yep. Grew up with my grandfather working on small engines (read:lawnmowers, either push or driven) and one of things he would do when doing maintenance on them was to sharpen the blades with an angle grinder. Mades mowing a lot easier and generally looks more uniform as well. The other thing was that it almost always is the carb if the engine has issues.

      • @[email protected]
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        92 months ago

        I hate my grass. It needs to suffer, get over exposed to the sun, and never watered.

        Can’t wait to replace it with something not grass next year.

        Until then, next time I need to cut it, I’m going to use a lawn mower blade supplied by the Chuck-e-Cheese kitchen to do the worst hack job ever.

    • Mayor Poopington
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      42 months ago

      Absolutely! I had no idea until I mowed after that.