sharpening lawn mower blades...

[fordracing19]

I just let Jesus and Jose worry about it.

[dcs13]

Sharpened mine for the second time this year already. I mow about 3 acres with the ZTR... razor sharp makes big difference in the finish and less work on the mower.. Takes 15 minutes to pull the 3 blades and hit them with a flap disc.

[Gasser64]

I just let Jesus and Jose worry about it.

I kinda do to. However mine's name is Ebon. $35 a pop baby! Can't beat that with a stick. Standard sized front and backyard though.

[zemog]

We sharpen every week, like stated above, remove and put in a vice , use a hand grinder to sharpen, takes about 2min per blade .

[kingjason]

Sharpened mine for the second time this year already. I mow about 3 acres with the ZTR... razor sharp makes big difference in the finish and less work on the mower.. Takes 15 minutes to pull the 3 blades and hit them with a flap disc.

Jacked up my Gravely the other day and could actually sharpen them with my rotary grinder while still attached. I was doing its first 25 hour tune up and thought I might eyeball them. Lets just say when I moved in 3 years ago there was lots of debris and over sized sticks in my yard. Holy shit they looked rough. 15 minutes later they were cutting like a champ.

[BlackGT]

I remove and use my belt sander to sharpen, usually a couple times a year.

[Denny]

Baller mode: I contact my Zeta connection, have them hand-deliver me four fresh Mexicans, call up John Deere, they cargo drop me two new mowers and two edgers, call Dale Earnhardt Jr and have his pit crew on the ready to fuel and refuel and burn them all to ashes in my incinerator as soon as the lawn is done.

It's a beating of a weekly process, but damn, that yard looks good! I keep having to tell Chuck Norris to keep off my lawn, or else!

[ceyko]

Couple of interesting ways to sharpen them mentioned here. May try them too. Too bad I only have 800 grit sand paper for my bench sander, gonna have to go buy some new stuff.

[zachary]

WOw, kinda surprised by some responses....i mow about 1.5 acres and go over rocks, tree stumps occasionally, even hit a concrete edge and throw sparks form time to time.

three years and i have not even looked at my blades, but the grass cut still looks really good. I am curious to see what they look like now, especially some of you doing it weekly....curious then how much do super sharp blades really matter? I will take a pic of my three year worn blades this weekend and post...

[ceyko]

WOw, kinda surprised by some responses....i mow about 1.5 acres and go over rocks, tree stumps occasionally, even hit a concrete edge and throw sparks form time to time.

three years and i have not even looked at my blades, but the grass cut still looks really good. I am curious to see what they look like now, especially some of you doing it weekly....curious then how much do super sharp blades really matter? I will take a pic of my three year worn blades this weekend and post...

For us with the septic grey water spraying the back yard - it's more to get through that tall wet stuff without bogging down. I've had some dull/booger-ed up blades that did okay. Although, I think in some cases it more knocked the grass down instead of truly cutting it. It's like folks who change oil once every 5-10 years instead of once or twice a year, may make no difference in some cases.

Also, when going fast - it'll help there.

[kingjason]

Couple of interesting ways to sharpen them mentioned here. May try them too. Too bad I only have 800 grit sand paper for my bench sander, gonna have to go buy some new stuff.

Harbor freight. 15.00 grinder/cut off wheel.

WOw, kinda surprised by some responses....i mow about 1.5 acres and go over rocks, tree stumps occasionally, even hit a concrete edge and throw sparks form time to time.

three years and i have not even looked at my blades, but the grass cut still looks really good. I am curious to see what they look like now, especially some of you doing it weekly....curious then how much do super sharp blades really matter? I will take a pic of my three year worn blades this weekend and post...

This was exactly my scenario on right at a acre, going on three years. Now that I know how easy it is I will be sharpening more often. The blades where pretty jacked up.

For us with the septic grey water spraying the back yard - it's more to get through that tall wet stuff without bogging down. I've had some dull/booger-ed up blades that did okay. Although, I think in some cases it more knocked the grass down instead of truly cutting it. It's like folks who change oil once every 5-10 years instead of once or twice a year, may make no difference in some cases.

Also, when going fast - it'll help there.

This is the difference I noticed. I think in that area it also distributes the grass better when it is high VS big clumps. I never run it over 1/2 speed and it takes me 30 minutes maybe. Zero turns are the shit. I actually enjoy mowing as opposed to the push mower when I was a kid. Changed my oil per the manufactures instructions and at the three year mark it looked really good.

[zemog]

WOw, kinda surprised by some responses....i mow about 1.5 acres and go over rocks, tree stumps occasionally, even hit a concrete edge and throw sparks form time to time.

three years and i have not even looked at my blades, but the grass cut still looks really good. I am curious to see what they look like now, especially some of you doing it weekly....curious then how much do super sharp blades really matter? I will take a pic of my three year worn blades this weekend and post...

We mow 90 lawns per week , that's the only reason for weekly , that's about 3-4 years worth of mowing for a normal home owner. We also mulch everything which dulls blades much faster.