ryanty22
ryanty22 HalfDork
6/27/14 4:22 p.m.

It is really easy to install a lawn mower blade upside down. And get called out on it by your smart ass 18 yr old.

Duke
Duke UltimaDork
6/27/14 4:26 p.m.

Hey, I installed cabinet pulls on the inside of the door once, because that's the side I happened to be facing.

Fobroader
Fobroader Reader
6/27/14 4:30 p.m.
ryanty22 wrote: It is really easy to install a lawn mower blade upside down. And get called out on it by your smart ass 18 yr old.

Been there, done that, wife will never let me live it down.......

iceracer
iceracer PowerDork
6/27/14 5:30 p.m.

Saw it on a lawn tractor with three blades.

All three upside down.

Owner wondered why it was not cutting well.

Will
Will SuperDork
6/27/14 7:00 p.m.
ryanty22 wrote: It is really easy to install a lawn mower blade upside down. And get called out on it by your smart ass 18 yr old.

But it should be able to hover now, right?

ryanty22
ryanty22 HalfDork
6/27/14 7:17 p.m.
Will wrote:
ryanty22 wrote: It is really easy to install a lawn mower blade upside down. And get called out on it by your smart ass 18 yr old.
But it should be able to hover now, right?

I wish that would be cool, uncontrollable but still cool while it lasts

bearmtnmartin
bearmtnmartin GRM+ Memberand Dork
6/27/14 7:51 p.m.

You have all heard the story about the guy tooling around the lake in his powerboat with the trailer still attached?

bearmtnmartin
bearmtnmartin GRM+ Memberand Dork
6/27/14 7:51 p.m.

That wasn't me

bearmtnmartin
bearmtnmartin GRM+ Memberand Dork
6/27/14 7:52 p.m.

But I did see a guy back his boat down the ramp loaded with sacks of concrete so heavy the boat never came off the trailer.

ryanty22
ryanty22 HalfDork
6/28/14 12:44 a.m.
bearmtnmartin wrote: But I did see a guy back his boat down the ramp loaded with sacks of concrete so heavy the boat never came off the trailer.

Thats funny. Wonder what he needed that much concrete on a boat for

Kenny_McCormic
Kenny_McCormic UberDork
6/28/14 3:10 a.m.

I once installed a sway bar upside down, in a car where you have to drop the K member to service it, figured it out AFTER I had the k member torqued down, in February, working outside(crash repair).

mad_machine
mad_machine GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
6/28/14 5:56 a.m.

If the 18yo is so smart.. make him fix it

Wally
Wally GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
6/28/14 7:38 a.m.

In reply to mad_machine:

He's smart enough to get out of playing with the mower.

ZOO
ZOO GRM+ Memberand UltraDork
6/28/14 7:52 a.m.
bearmtnmartin wrote: You have all heard the story about the guy tooling around the lake in his powerboat with the trailer still attached?

Must have more info . . .

Curmudgeon
Curmudgeon MegaDork
6/28/14 10:01 a.m.
ryanty22 wrote:
Will wrote:
ryanty22 wrote: It is really easy to install a lawn mower blade upside down. And get called out on it by your smart ass 18 yr old.
But it should be able to hover now, right?
I wish that would be cool, uncontrollable but still cool while it lasts

There ain't enough bandwidth to list all the stupid things I have done. Most recent was thinking 'surely Atkins Rotary wouldn't incude the wrong dimension O rings'.

ryanty22
ryanty22 HalfDork
6/28/14 11:06 a.m.
Wally wrote: In reply to mad_machine: He's smart enough to get out of playing with the mower.

No, he does the mowing. I was just getting the blade changed out quickly because it was getting ready to storm like hell yesterday. Get it done and put up.

noddaz
noddaz GRM+ Memberand Dork
6/28/14 2:43 p.m.

Sooo, if you put the blade on upside down does the grass get longer?

ryanty22
ryanty22 HalfDork
6/28/14 2:55 p.m.
noddaz wrote: Sooo, if you put the blade on upside down does the grass get longer?

Smartass.

On another note I seriously want to find one of those hover mowers

Kenny_McCormic
Kenny_McCormic UberDork
6/28/14 11:41 p.m.

In reply to ryanty22:

You can still buy them http://www.toro.com/en-us/golf/mowers/specialty/Pages/Series.aspx?sid=HoverProSeries

KyAllroad
KyAllroad Reader
6/29/14 1:31 a.m.

To push all the grass flat, thereby reducing any need to cut it.... Different strokes I suppose.

ryanty22
ryanty22 HalfDork
6/29/14 10:39 a.m.

I looked at the toro site and have an email into them asking about local dealers and prices

egnorant
egnorant SuperDork
6/29/14 9:32 p.m.

We did a refurbish on my brothers lawn tractor last week. Long story short he didn't remember that I had removed the blades for replacement/sharpening and he spent a while disassembling and confused as to why it would not cut! He spent his time on replacing belts and pulleys...deck was my job! I could not even rub it in or he would remind me of the time he found my new throwout bearing still on the bench...then 3 hours later he asks why I have 2 pilot bearings sitting on the cart.

Bruce

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