Brown tips even with a sharp blade? Updated 8/17 w/pic!

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Re: Brown tips even with a sharp blade? Updated 8/17 w/pic!

Postby John_in_SC » August 17th, 2010, 11:24 am

That looks like some flavor of super-high lift discharge blade rather than a "Mulching" design.... That is the sort of design you need with a Bagger to make sure you had enough "OOmph" to blow all the clippings up into the bag....

I am guessing it excels at that function.....

But.. You may want a proper "Mulching" blade if you intend to Mulch mow....

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Re: Brown tips even with a sharp blade? Updated 8/17 w/pic!

Postby tiemco » August 17th, 2010, 1:17 pm

It was labeled as a mulching blade, should be labeled as a piece of crap blade.
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Re: Brown tips even with a sharp blade? Updated 8/17 w/pic!

Postby Ohio2112 » August 18th, 2010, 12:20 am

tiemco wrote:It was labeled as a mulching blade, should be labeled as a piece of crap blade.
I can just imagine the conversation at the blade company:

Engineering person: "Our tests show that this blade is a piece of crap."

Marketing person: "Thats ok. We'll say it's great and then we'll sell lots of them."

Engineering person: [Sadly shakes head.]

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Re: Brown tips even with a sharp blade? Updated 8/17 w/pic!

Postby cactus » August 18th, 2010, 11:52 am

Ohio2112 wrote:I can just imagine the conversation at the blade company:

Engineering person: "Our tests show that this blade is a piece of crap."
Marketing person: "Thats ok. We'll say it's great and then we'll sell lots of them."
Engineering person: [Sadly shakes head.]


I think I worked there once.
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Re: Brown tips even with a sharp blade? Updated 8/17 w/pic!

Postby MorpheusPA » August 18th, 2010, 12:26 pm

cactus wrote:
Ohio2112 wrote:I can just imagine the conversation at the blade company:

Engineering person: "Our tests show that this blade is a piece of crap."
Marketing person: "Thats ok. We'll say it's great and then we'll sell lots of them."
Engineering person: [Sadly shakes head.]


I think I worked there once.


I think I worked there more than once. Like, every place with a marketing department that doesn't understand engineering or programming.
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Re: Brown tips even with a sharp blade? Updated 8/17 w/pic!

Postby bpgreen » August 18th, 2010, 7:03 pm

MorpheusPA wrote:
cactus wrote:
Ohio2112 wrote:I can just imagine the conversation at the blade company:

Engineering person: "Our tests show that this blade is a piece of crap."
Marketing person: "Thats ok. We'll say it's great and then we'll sell lots of them."
Engineering person: [Sadly shakes head.]


I think I worked there once.


I think I worked there more than once. Like, every place with a marketing department that doesn't understand engineering or programming.



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