RE: (ET) [ET] Mower blades

["Hazen, Dwight L" <hazen indiana edu>]

I never tried the flex blades, but I figured you could cut them down to
size. 

  Dwight 

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Elie, Larry (L.D.) [SMTP:lelie ford com]
        Sent:   Monday, May 15, 2000 3:05 PM
        To:     'Dick Both'; electrak list
        Subject:        RE: (ET) [ET] Mower blades

        What kind of blades were they Dick?  Dwight wrote last year about
        'Flex-Blades', but 
        I don't know anyone who actually tried them.  They sound good (if a
bit
        expensive) on 
        paper, but they start at 17" which is a bit big for the ET.

        Larry Elie


        -----Original Message-----
        From: Dick Both [mailto:dboth bmts com]
        Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 1:58 PM
        To: electrak list
        Subject: (ET) [ET] Mower blades


        Chris was asking if anyone had used other than ET mower blades.

        These replacement blades were slightly longer and at least twice as
        thick with a noticable curvature to suck up the grass. I do not
        recommend such blades as they are very noisy(ET is quiet why spoil
it
        with a noisy mower) and it definitely uses more power( my power
meter
        went from under the yellow line to one third the way through the
        yellow).  There may be other blades one could buy which are lighter
        weight and have a better aerodynamic profile.