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Posted by Hound Dog on June 30, 2005, 11:02 pm
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> I have a walk behind gas lawnmower with a belt drive. Love it.
> However I dislike it for often clogging with grass and I dislike
> having to empty the rear bag every 10 minutes or so. My solution is
> to use a crossbar to prop the rear chute cover partly open whereby it
> discharges the grass out and downward back onto the lawn. That way I
> can make an uninterrupted pass to cut the grass until the gas tank
> empties. My lawn size is two tanks of gas and 2 plus hours of work. I
> leave the grass to dry for a few days, rake them and it fills around
> 9 large garbage bags. Its a lot of work for one guy my age.
>
> I am thinking of modifying a lawnmower blade so that it functions as a
> propeller type device to pick up the dried cut grass and fling them
> into the rear bagger. My current idea is to bolt or rivet a backward
> pitched paddle on the upper side of the blade. It will work (?) like
> the impeller in a vacuum motor. Has anyone done this before? Any
> other suggestions as to making such a modification?
Buy a mulching mower. If you can, get a personal pace model.
They're a lot easier on older guys like us.
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