On Wednesday 26 May 2010, Dave 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.
>
>Ah.. the safety cops...
>
>The last mower I bought was a 2 cycle Lawn Boy .... now banned since it
>is 2 cycle. It is great since you can cut on steep slopes without fear
>of the oil not making it to the bearings.
>
>Also the later 2 strokes made serious power when turned up a bit. It is
>almost impossible to kill even in high grass.
>
>When I bought that mower I spent some time taking out baffles that
>prevented the grass (and stones) from exiting the mower deck quickly.
>( Grinder and die grinder with cutting wheel required. ) Prior to my
>modifications the deck constantly plugged
>when cutting heavy grass. My wife thought I was nuts to start cutting
>up the mower deck, but it didn't work as it was!
>
>Dave
Yup, gimme a 2 stroke, and if its built good, I'll give you something in the
2hp/ci for giddyup. I figure my last go cart, with its 13.5 cid deflector
head water cooled engine, was making a good 25hp, cuz 100 mph was not a dream
if the sprocket was right. The tracks I ran it on were slower than that, so
the 15/78 I was running made about 90, but it could do 80 from 25 in 75 feet.
Mind you this was an elderly Gopher cart that scaled at well over 100 lbs
without me! Make that 60 feet if the tank was full of booze instead of gas.
I was an equal opportunity annoyer.
I firmly believe that anyone applying for a drivers license must first goto
the local cart track, and spend a few days trying to break the track record,
and will only qualify for a road test in daddy's Lexus if they came within
1/2 second of it.
Then, and only then, will they have an inkling of how to handle a dicey
situation on the street, after all that practice of its getting out of line,
doing a spinout or whatever, all without mussing up the form and paint on
daddies $36k chair car. Enough time on the cart that when things go tits up
in traffic, they do what they need to do completely from muscle memory.
We could cut the traffic deaths by 90% or more with just that change.
--
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)
<Espy> tomorrow there will be a great disturbance in the workforce
-- May 18, 1999
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