Popgadget
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High blade tip speed is essential to good dispersal of the clippings, and a key to getting a quality look. If you cut more often, it wouldn’t make as much difference, but then you would use even more gas.
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High blade tip speed is essential to good dispersal of the clippings, and a key to getting a quality look. If you cut more often, it wouldn’t make as much difference, but then you would use even more gas.
txdon
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Correct, from the Hustler's owners manual:
"Set the throttle at full rpm for maximum performance. This gives maximum power to the drive wheels and deck when needed. The throttle setting directly controls blade speed. Use the control levers to control ground speed rather than engine rpm."
Popgadget
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God Morning.
It’s 63 and going to the upper 70’s today. Some showers passed through this morning, but it’s clearing up quickly to bring us a nice day.
Yesterday was breakfast with the professor, then a friend brought a floor Tom over for me to helicoil a lug for a leg.
Next up was to go look (unsuccessfully) for a refrigerant leak in a neighbors AC. Pressurized with nitrogen to 450 psi, it lost .3 psi in an hour, so it wasn’t going to be anything obvious. So it got evacuated and recharged with R410a.
Got home and wrestled another 6” caster tire off the rim and a new one on.
Last chore was to remove the old mailbox and bring it up to the shop, put a temporary one at the street until the old one is done.
This a mailbox that I built out of 10ga hot rolled steel over 30 years ago. It’s held up well, but the bottom rusted where it was screwed to a plywood support.
I got the bottom cut out with a plasma cutter and called it a day.
Today I’ll clean up the cuts with a disc grinder and cut and fit the piece of stainless for the new bottom. Then TIG weld it together. Welding stainless to mild steel works well as long as you use stainless filler rod.
It’s 63 and going to the upper 70’s today. Some showers passed through this morning, but it’s clearing up quickly to bring us a nice day.
Yesterday was breakfast with the professor, then a friend brought a floor Tom over for me to helicoil a lug for a leg.
Next up was to go look (unsuccessfully) for a refrigerant leak in a neighbors AC. Pressurized with nitrogen to 450 psi, it lost .3 psi in an hour, so it wasn’t going to be anything obvious. So it got evacuated and recharged with R410a.
Got home and wrestled another 6” caster tire off the rim and a new one on.
Last chore was to remove the old mailbox and bring it up to the shop, put a temporary one at the street until the old one is done.
This a mailbox that I built out of 10ga hot rolled steel over 30 years ago. It’s held up well, but the bottom rusted where it was screwed to a plywood support.
I got the bottom cut out with a plasma cutter and called it a day.
Today I’ll clean up the cuts with a disc grinder and cut and fit the piece of stainless for the new bottom. Then TIG weld it together. Welding stainless to mild steel works well as long as you use stainless filler rod.
toppop52
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toppop52
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I have stage three CKD and it has slipped to stage four when I was sick with sepsis.
It’s worrisome because you don’t know until it’s too late often times. I’ll pray for good results.
daugen
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Ken, treat all local turtles well; they may be reincarnated local ancestors.
The local tribe of the Leni Lenape Indians was named the Turtle Clan, and they lived here in this area.
So turtles are special here.
what a surprise this morning. Clear weather predicted but oh no, we had just set up the griddles and were cooking pancakes outside when the heavens
opened up. And it poured and poured for 20 minutes, then stopped.
At one point the griddles filled up with water and we had to dump them and start over.
All is well, everyone got fed, I made a zillion blueberry, chocolate chip and plain pancakes.
Very cool to see all the families and kids show up, blue-grey sports day, and kids with all kinds of wild blue hair. Fun.
we are going to agree to disagree on blade tip speed. I think you need enough, with sharp blades. Manufacturers assume you won't keep your blades sharp so you have to
make up with more speed. They aren't paying for your gas or your rebuild. If you don't have heavy grass, and your blades are sharp, try backing it off til the motor sound changes and see how much less gas you use.
The local tribe of the Leni Lenape Indians was named the Turtle Clan, and they lived here in this area.
So turtles are special here.
what a surprise this morning. Clear weather predicted but oh no, we had just set up the griddles and were cooking pancakes outside when the heavens
opened up. And it poured and poured for 20 minutes, then stopped.
At one point the griddles filled up with water and we had to dump them and start over.
All is well, everyone got fed, I made a zillion blueberry, chocolate chip and plain pancakes.
Very cool to see all the families and kids show up, blue-grey sports day, and kids with all kinds of wild blue hair. Fun.
we are going to agree to disagree on blade tip speed. I think you need enough, with sharp blades. Manufacturers assume you won't keep your blades sharp so you have to
make up with more speed. They aren't paying for your gas or your rebuild. If you don't have heavy grass, and your blades are sharp, try backing it off til the motor sound changes and see how much less gas you use.
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toppop52
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That is correct, on my ZTR I run full throttle and I mow fairly fast, ends up about the same fuel usage as lower RPM and slower mowing speed, only better quality cut.
My tractor on the other hand mows great at 2800 RPM with the diesel and the 2000 RPM PTO.
mpham
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Morning all!
Raining and 60 degrees so far.
Went for my yearly hearing test today. Right ear is now as bad as my left! Hearing aids are in my future. Can still function now as long as background noise is quiet.
Stopped for gas on the way home! 46 bucks for a little over 9 gallons! Guess we will be sticking around the house a lot more! Sucks that we have to go over 10 miles for any shopping. (Love my rural town though.)
Nothing much planned ahead. Sit and watch the grass and garden grow.
Hope everyone stays safe and healthy!
Raining and 60 degrees so far.
Went for my yearly hearing test today. Right ear is now as bad as my left! Hearing aids are in my future. Can still function now as long as background noise is quiet.
Stopped for gas on the way home! 46 bucks for a little over 9 gallons! Guess we will be sticking around the house a lot more! Sucks that we have to go over 10 miles for any shopping. (Love my rural town though.)
Nothing much planned ahead. Sit and watch the grass and garden grow.
Hope everyone stays safe and healthy!
txdon
Super Star Member
Just the opposite Drew. The manufacturers assumes you will keep your blades sharp. Another quote right under the full throttle quote.
"Set the throttle at full rpm for maximum performance. This gives maximum power to the drive wheels and deck when needed. The throttle setting directly controls blade speed. Use the control levers to control ground speed rather than engine rpm.
Keep blades sharp. Many problems with incorrect cutting patterns are due to dull blades or blades which have been sharpened incorrectly. Information on sharpening blades is listed in this manual’s maintenance section. Blade sharpness should be checked daily."
Another thing I need to research is at what throttle speed is the hydraulic fluid pressure best for the life of the transmission. Want to place a bet on full throttle?
daugen
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Buppies, if you track your fuel consumption/cost each month, I bet your company card is getting really wacked.
Don, thank you, remember the lawyers wrote that. I know many people who put a new blade on in the Spring and never ever check it until
they or the dealer replaces it. Very few people sharpen their own blades any more apparently. I do...have a 1hp grinder and fully enjoy
the process. Been doing it since I was a little kid. We never got new blades for mowers...they got sharpened down almost half way.
Since I also sharpen my own blades, I can make the angle shallower for a sharper cut. Doesn't last as long, needs to be sharpened late summer, but
my blades are sharper than stock. I can do this because I pick up my sticks and don't have rocks to hit.
And I'm sure they think I sharpen incorrectly since I change the sharpening angle. Well guess what, if you pay attention to this, you really can get
a superior cut. And you don't have to run your gas engine at 3200 rpm, which is usually where they are regulated. Vs gens at 3600.
I can only say what has worked for me, for decades. Had 22 small engines at one point on farm, no history of blowing up my engines so I'll take the manufacturer's
warnings under advisement...
well....there was that one rototiller engine I blew up, but that was all on me, angle of tiller fooled me on engine oil level. Once it started to smoke, it was all over.
Highly embarrassing to blow up an engine, cheap Briggs as it was, for not maintaining enough oil.
Don, thank you, remember the lawyers wrote that. I know many people who put a new blade on in the Spring and never ever check it until
they or the dealer replaces it. Very few people sharpen their own blades any more apparently. I do...have a 1hp grinder and fully enjoy
the process. Been doing it since I was a little kid. We never got new blades for mowers...they got sharpened down almost half way.
Since I also sharpen my own blades, I can make the angle shallower for a sharper cut. Doesn't last as long, needs to be sharpened late summer, but
my blades are sharper than stock. I can do this because I pick up my sticks and don't have rocks to hit.
And I'm sure they think I sharpen incorrectly since I change the sharpening angle. Well guess what, if you pay attention to this, you really can get
a superior cut. And you don't have to run your gas engine at 3200 rpm, which is usually where they are regulated. Vs gens at 3600.
I can only say what has worked for me, for decades. Had 22 small engines at one point on farm, no history of blowing up my engines so I'll take the manufacturer's
warnings under advisement...
well....there was that one rototiller engine I blew up, but that was all on me, angle of tiller fooled me on engine oil level. Once it started to smoke, it was all over.
Highly embarrassing to blow up an engine, cheap Briggs as it was, for not maintaining enough oil.
