On Wednesday 26 May 2010, Mark Wendt wrote: >On 05/26/2010 12:31 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> And even then it lives on with OOP. Your module becomes my module >>> becomes his module becomes... >> >> Yeah, and each succeeding generation thinks the previous ones work is >> crap, so he fixes it, only adding 2 more bugs for every one he thinks he >> is fixing. >> >> 2/3rds of the back yard knocked down, hip joints screaming. I am gonna >> go buy a rider yet... But it will have to be after a figure out how to >> revoke Dee's backseat drivers license. She thinks all I need is the >> exercise. ;-) > >Well, of course they do. We thought the same thing when we were younger! > >Is your push mower one of those self-propelled ones? A lot of the old >aches and pains went away when I switched to one of those. > 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. >mark > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >--- > >_______________________________________________ >Emc-users mailing list >Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Lie, n.: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
