Installing a new lawnmower blade after the old one gets worn out and dinged will make cutting your grass easier, I’ve discovered. Also…common lawn grass has the ability to wear down steel.\n<\/p>\n
I have an electric lawnmower. It would hardly do for most suburban lawns but it feels a tad extravagant for the one in the back of my little brick rowhouse. But two years of trying to cut grass with a basic pushmower sold me on a power one. Now I just run the mower back and forth over my little patch of grass a few times and I’m done, all but the trimming which I do with my electric weed whacker. Spring is here in Baltimore now, and the grass in my back yard has already needed mowing once. But when I got the mower out this year, it seemed unduly sluggish. I could hear the motor bogging down on grass it shouldn’t have had to work at cutting. So I stopped, unplugged, and took a look at the blade and was just amazed…I had no idea grass can make steel dull like that in just four years. Well…I dinged the blade once also, when I pushed the mower too close to the sewer tap that sticks out of the ground in my back yard near the alley, just far enough that a couple weeks worth of grass growth hides it almost completely from view. I should plant flowers around it or something. But I swear just cutting the frigging grass for four summers made the rest of the blade about as dull as the edge of a quarter. <\/p>\n
So I went looking around for a new one and none of the local hardware stores carried that particular blade, including the store I bought the mower from. I guess I’m supposed to buy a whole new lawnmower when the blade wears out. I ended up googling the part number and finding new blades on, of all places, Amazon.Com. Somehow buying lawnmower parts where I buy my books doesn’t quite compute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Installing a new lawnmower blade after the old one gets worn out and dinged will make cutting your grass easier, I’ve discovered. Also…common lawn grass has the ability to wear down steel. I have an electric lawnmower. It would hardly do for most suburban lawns but it feels a tad extravagant for the one in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}