Mowing mayhem

Mowing the grass. It is at least a 9 month a year job down here in SW Florida. I have a Murray 42 inch riding mower that helps me do battle against the always growing grass. I go through a lot of mower blades. We have many hard objects scattered through our yard which beat the hell out of the blades. During my last blade purchase, they didn’t have the normal Murray replacement blades but they had the “high performance” commericial style blades that were nearly double the cost. 60% more cutting area!!!! I was excited and put them on last week. I was out mowing last night and was thinking to myself how the blades are cutting just OK but not great, a lot of the grass blades were just bent up and not cut. So I turned off the blades, pulled back the chute cover and slightly engaged the blades so I could watch em spin. Yep, they were on backwards! Damn it!!! I put these new blades on facing the same direction as the old ones they replaced!!! And the ones before that, and before that…. So, I probably have been running the blades backward for the past year or so. Doh! After reversing the blades, it cut like a razor. My mowing duties just got a little easier. 🙂 It’s amazing how much faster you can mow with blades installed correctly.

One more day of work then out for 5 days. Cool!!!!!!!!!!

I had my wife take that IQ test I took yesterday. She beat me by two! Grrrrrrrrrrr.