Does This Odd Mower Blade Actually Sharpen Itself? Let's Find Out
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- Опубликовано: 17 апр 2024
- In another installment of "Lawn Mower Mysteries & Oddities", Taryl goes over this truly odd idea that never took off. It's a rubber blade! Have you ever heard of or seen one of these before? Let us know what YOU think in the comments. And as always... There's Your Dinner!!
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On a crisp quiet night I can hear my mower blades dulling themselves.
They intro always makes my day. I didn't know rubber could be sharpened.
Wonder how you would sharpen it. File or a grinder ? Or was there a special tool for sharpening. Very neat idea for a small manicure lawn that has no trash or stumps. 😂
Not bad
That blade had a lot of false advertising. Just imagine seeing the ad for that on TV. Most people would realize that these things are junk.
@@dougpursell9591 probably a flap disk
@@Myself-yh9rr Back then weed wackers were relative new and used nylon string so why not a rubber blade?
My favorite!! Lawn Mower Mysteries and Oddities!! Thank you Taryl!
Dwight Yoakam would still be alive in Slingblade if he was hit over the head with this.😂
I know that's right...
@@DoyleFuckinHargraves 😂🤣😂🤣This is awesome!!!!😂🤣
Carl?........
Uh huh.....
@@donaldkline8162 The moms boyfriend, the guy Carl killed.
There’s no blades made for anything that my brother-in-law can’t destroy.
SO WHAT YOUR SAYING IS HE CAN BREAK A BRICK IN A SANDBOX 😂
@@briannelson6259 Exactly!
It is not theirs. They could care a less. Been there done that.
Or my wife. 😂
Mine too bro! My brother-in-law gives lawn & garden equipment a tough way to go LOL
A nylon string on a weed wacker works about the same.
Remember the 'Flymow"?
The upside-down wheelbarrow, a big favorite!
i remember those
My grandfather's mechanic's invention? Yep. Used to race in speedway and his mate who maintained his car said check this thing out. Wow, don't run over that cord! We got to see engines instead of motors and that really made the things a lot safer. Down here in Australia it all happened.
There was an old hardware store that closed in my city. They have a Flymow hanging on the wall. Currently trying to buy it from the owner.
I think they still sell those in Europe.
8:12 mark. That squirrel ran for its life!
I was wondering if anybody saw that too. He was outta there !!!
He was afraid Taryl would say, "let's see what it does to this squirrel"
I wonder if this rubber blade would protect the crankshaft from getting bent when hitting a hard object.
Naw
hell no lol probably would make it worse.
It would if it did not have steel inside it.
It’s a steel blade with rubber tips.
I think it would help. Every bent blade I’ve changed from impact was damaged and bent on the ends of the blade. With this part being solid rubber, I assume it would rip off rather before doing enough impact to damage the crank.
If that was sold today,some idiot would put it on their mower then put their foot under the mower to test it out
Then the dolt would sue and the "progressive" judge would award him damages, clown world!! Just like the Mckey D's hot coffee lady!
Rubber blades, plastic cams, composite airplanes...where's your dinner?....Al Scott
I found this from Farm Show magazine. Kind of wish they still made these.
Rubber Mower Blade
"Our rubber mower blade cuts grass as well or better than steel thanks to the nylon fibers that run through it," says John Chung, representative of Safe-T-Blade, Inc., manufacturer of a new rubber lawn mower blade that virtually eliminates danger to toes and fingers from spinning blades and reduces the danger from thrown rocks and other ob-
jects. The combination rubber-nylon blade has a steel mounting insert at center. One size replaces any 17 to 22-in. blade. You simply trim off the ends of the blade to fit.
"It'll never rust, chip or break and you never have to sharpen it because as the rubber wears the nylon fibers that do the cutting are exposed. It's the only lawn mower blade that's self-sharpening and self-balancing, requiring no maintenance. It also works better in damp grass because grass won't stick to it as easily," says Chung, noting that the blade virtually eliminates danger to operators. "When the blade strikes an object, it absorbs the impact, greatly reducing the chance of injury and reducing the danger of flying rocks or objects. It also protects the crankshaft"
They used to advertise them in Farm Show magazine. I always thought they would be good for my rocky mountain property in Vermont. Hidden tips of rocks, and boulders destroy my blades and spindles. Might be worth a try. I believe a different company sells something similar today.
My Dad was a Lawn Boy man-love hearing it run-wonderful memories-thank you!
Maybe you should edit that monstrosity of a sentence to make sense without having to re-read it two or three times!
Hint, a hyphen without spaces is NOT a substitute for a comma.
@chris2790 calm down mr boomer
@@chris2790 You had to read that three times to understand? Lmao... I guess reading between the lines is difficult eh.
@@DinDooIt punctuation, word and sentence structure gives meaning, eh?
At first I thought your dad had some kinky man-love thing going on with his lawn boy.
And I had just gotten up and was still bleary eyed sitting on the can, so yeah, two or three times. 😄
So it basically turned your mower into a giant weedeater. lol. Nice.
No mower blade sharpens itself!!
Yuh huh! Back in the '70s they said if you put a razor blade inside a pyramid made of straws or wood dowels, it'd sharpen itself! I'm sure a lawn mower blade would work as well!
I walked into the garage my blade was sharping itself. Really going at it too.
Have you seen the newish JD self sharpening blade? It has a hardened layer on the bottom and softer steel on top that wears away, leaving the lower hardened steel as the cutting edge $$$$
You put it through the torture test. I think it did good. It looks like the main safety feature is, it doesn't send rocks off like bullets. The rubber blade absorbs most of the energy when it hits something hard.
It looks like with just a small amount of wear, it will be robbing horse power from a mower due to the rough edges.
From over here in Australia, I'm glad you kept that thing. That compression "bounce" once the blades were on says that rebuild I watched you do was a good one.
I bet if you look at the grass that you cut tomorrow. The tips of those blades of grass will be all brown and frayed.😊😊
Yup, lol.
I think Trojan was the parent company trying to branch out back then. 😂
Nah, you're thinking of GOOD YEAR 😂
You're thinking of DUREX
That thing ranks up there with Briggs Check-n-Add 😉 That won't cut your foot if you hit it, it will bluntly tear it off 🫨
12.95 in 1970s dollars is a little over $100 today. That thing was expensive back in the day! For a blade that can’t be resharpened and has no lift. One season of homeowner use, at best.
Only because purposeful inflation has devalued the dollar by 90% since then, if we didn't have SOOOO much corruption it would be around $20 today!
It did say you may sharpen if so desired, it did have a kickup on the back of blade end, and like tarrel said its fourty years of age! When new i bet it was a force to be reconed with!
lel! 8:11+ Squirrel is like: "There goes the neighborhood."
"It's just a flesh wound" comes to mind.
It will cut your hand off no problem, it's just grass it doesn't damag5
One of the best movies ever!!
Beware of the killer rabbit 🐰🐰🐰. Best movie.
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Good God son you lost your foot. But it's only a flesh wound😅
This is entertaining to watch. I didn't know blades like that existed but was neat to watch what it could do.
Thank ewe for that demo!! Reminds me of my two neighbors. Mrs Wessel had the Lawn Boy and Mr Johnson was working on a circular ring with 4 blades . He was using a Blue Boy mower that was made in Largo Florida in the 50’s to mid 70’s. Our Blue boy had a 5 hp Techimish on it! In 73 dad was mowing down by the lake and parts exploded all over thelake!! 0:51
Some OEMs did have a four-blade flail (short blades that pivot on one end) setup, I think Jacobsen rotary mowers used them.
Thank you mr.malden
It always facilitates me to see what people have dreamed up over the years...good and bad.
My dad liked those old law boy mowers because he had a bank at the end of his yard and on 4 strokes all the oil goes to one side great videos 👍🏻🤘🏻
There is nothing like a "dry sump" engine when gravity is working against you!
My dad bought roughly 1/2 case of those things at a local park and swap in Mesa AZ. We put those things on every mower we could, including Grandpa's 8hp Wards rider. they lasted forever, and the trick was to grind an edge before installation. I never saw any of them get chewed up like your test blade. That 1960's riding mower had the same set on it for over 20 years. I love 'em. it's a shame they stopped making them. I would have put them on all my mowers when I had my business. Glad you were fair with your review, heck, that one was 40+ years old! Take Care!
I wonder how many emergency room cases were the result of people testing that theory that the blade wouldn't hurt them like a steel lawn mower blade?
😂😂😂
That little Lawnboy cuts better than one of the newer Ego Power electric mowers.
As soon as they cut it to length there goes the balancing aspect. Another gimmick in the good ol’ days. Thanks for sharing. Watching from Sydney Australia.
love that you used the lawn boy to test this blade, one of the best mowers ever made
More mowing footage please and a mower cam would be nice!
Yeah 👍🏼 a mower cam. A great idea.
Do you not realize how much every mower vibrates? Maybe you are asking for a point of view cam or first person perspective. Mounting a camera to anywhere on a push mower would be a horrible view and possibly destructive to the camera.
@@btwbrand SO, you’ve tried it. ?
Impressive! Lawn Boy is running well too, who fixed that up! Could maybe try it on Ronnie's foot! 😂
That Lawn Boy™ sounds great.
Love the pro job Like cutting hair with a butter knife.
Does the rubber blade protect the mower from Std's?
No,but it protects the consumer from MTD's.
I really enjoy the mysteries and oddities!!! keep them coming :)
Hey Taryl great video just wanted to say I was introduced to the Rubber Blade About 1978 - 1980 and it didn't take off in sales I was living in Phoenix Arizona at the time repairing sm. engines.
Taryl! Thanks for your help today. I appreciate that you’re still a down to earth guy who is always willing to help!
Pretty neat,, definitely an oddity. Oh and I got my z bender today, thanks taryl and crew.
I am currently working on something that will make that self-sharpening blade obsolete, although my progress is sketchy. Grass that will cut itself.
With Lazers 😂
@@briannelson6259 Excellent idea. I was thinking photon torpedos, but your idea is better.
I have goats.
This is exactly the kind of absurdity I have come to expect and appreciate from the Taryl Fixes All channel. Plastic mower blades that require the end user to complete manufacturing for fitment, from a company based in an area of these United States known for being remarkably devoid of grass or anything green for that matter. In the south someone would most likely pat them on their head saying, "Ah bless his heart."
How Lawn boy took a push mower and put a 2 stroke motor on it and made it twice as heavy as a 4 stroke push mower is mind boggling!
One of the best mowers ever made to.
Neat find, nope I've never heard of that. I'm betting it would still cut your foot off 😆. Kinda looks like it was made out of the same kind of rubber like a tire??? Who knows?? Cool video Taryl!!
Their line of rubber roto-tiller blades work well too!
Interesting that this blade comes from AZ where home lawns are scarce because of water scarcity. Landscaping at homes typically consists of desert plants, cacti and crushed rock. Maybe they had golf courses in mind.
It's amazing what a 'dull' blade can do. I just changed blades on my Toro Wheel Horse 520h a couple of days ago, for freshly sharpened ones (someone at Taryl's shop sharpened them all for me) and the old ones were so dull they could not have possibly been any duller. Yet they were cutting grass last season, not perfectly but they were cutting.
They were NOT cutting, they were tearing the grass off.
When I was in high school, we moved into a house where the previous owner had left a rotary mower behind, since they couldn't use it where they were moving. It was a nice mower, so we used it for another 20 years. After the first season, we were putting it up for the winter. We flipped it over and cleaned out the deck and sharpened the blade. It was then that we realized that the previous owner had put the blade on upside down. So the dull side had been cutting our grass all summer. We never noticed anything wrong. It worked fine. Needless to say, we didn't have to sharpen the blade. We just turned it over, and used it the next season. It did seem to cut a little better with the blade installed properly, and bogged down less. But the take-away is that you really don't need a very sharp blade to cut grass with a rotary mower.
I mean, if you think about it, we’ve were cutting weeds with round cord for years….thats about as dull as it gets, lol.
Tayrl at 12.99 back in day when that blade was being sold, I would think that would have been 3 times the price of a regular steel blade.
The beer bottle is probably what cut the blade.
Running over a glass bottle for science. Or something.
WoW now that’s an interesting one that I’ve never seen before I wonder who sold these and how many did they end up getting stock with…👀🤷🏼♂️
Awesome video as always; keep up the great work.
Taryl you should do a test with a pipe in the ground to see if it would save the crank.
That old Lawn Boy sure runs good I wonder if its the blade 😆
Just the thing I was looking for, to mow my rock garden in the desert.
That was Excellent !!! 🤔 Not so sure that it would reduce the chances of phalangeal departure, whether it be the toes or the fingers. Just say'n........
Thanks for the video.
I love this series! I subscribed just so I could see more please!
I going to stay with my old school metal blades for my mowing. Thanks for the odd rubber blade test. All blades on mowers are dangerous.
Haha pretty good! Love the introduction.
I remember those blades, they also said you could use it in the winter to blow snow up to 4 inches of it.
Amazing! Thanks for sharing.
AS WITH ANY RUBBER BLADE, YOU JUST BEAT THE GRASS TO DEATH 😂 👍
I remember as a kid seeing them cutting grass along the highway with Bush hogs that had rubber slats for blades. Mid 70s
Truly a mysterious oddity. I wouldn’t want to use it on a really nice lawn, probably leaves a raggedy cut that would turn all brown the next sunny day. Seems fine for field mowing though.
LOOKS LIKE IT WOULD TAKE YOUR HAND OFF
I had a lawn mower just like that Lawn Boy back in theearly 90's. I loved it! Super light weight. Great drive system. Lasted more than 10 years.
This is hilarious Taryl!!!
I love you guys :D
You forgot you balance it, Come on Taryl!!!!! And don't ask me to mow my grass,,,, 🤣
The real test would be to run over your bare foot. Seems to work relatively well. Love to hear the ole Lawn Boy - used them for many hours of mowing back in the day.
That rubber blade is perfect for Little Johnny.
Taryl you ever seen a studebaker push mower or worked on one ?
Awesome video God Bless you and your family Amen
Thank you for sharing.🤣👍
Cool but the big thing I would where it shines it would have a better chance of saving your crank shaft if you hit a big rock or metal. Keep up the cool vid's.
" I'll put it on #2 ," How appropriate.
Everytime I see a lawnmower blade I think back to middle school this kat named Aaron didn't have a heel, cuz his dad ran him over with a lawn mower when he was young, hahahaha cracks me up every time.
Great intro voice!
I found them online back in 1975, they probably go back further...and yes we do have grass and lots and lots of golf courses and ball parks etc..
El Mirage, Arizona
Safety blade brought to you by the same folks that provide the county snow plow trucks with their rubber plow blades that leave those nice, packed. shiny patches of ice that we all know and love. Makes plows last forever.
Hay there man ! Another great video ! Cheers 🍻
When the Blades are sharpen correctly you can hear a hissing noise when you cut!....thx for the vid
I learned something today
BTW, I’d almost always prefer a solid metal high RPM spinning device (in this example a blade) over a composite that can fragment and shoot high-velocity fragments suddenly in a given direction.
Remind me not to hire you to mow my yard... beer bottles, trash, stumps, scalps. Yeah it was a demo. But still...
The demo was done in the PEPG (Power Equipment Proving Grounds) 🤣
Ive got this big area on my yard that really kicks up the dirt and dust when you mow it so i took 3 of those aftermarket string trimmer heads "shakespeare" brand and modified them to fit my 48 Inch craftsman deck to see if they would work and they work pretty good cutting the grass and kick up 0 dirt or dust . id get caked with dirt and kick up a big dust cloud now none at all . they usually last 2 times before needing to replace the strings.
I miss all the cool stuff written on packaging back in the day. Got a Domino's pizza yesterday and the box was pretty cool like that.
It seems pretty good especially for being 50 yrs old. The rubber is pretty high quailty to still be flexible. I could use it on my lawn because I have nothing to hit but I have a 33 inch blade. Good video grass rat.
Jeez that Hacksaw was as old as that blade!
I think it might be good for someone who has a small lot to mow and maybe has a lot of obstacles that if hit might damage the mower, but you would have to replace the blade and inspect it pretty frequently. As far as something like a commercial application it would not work. It would NOT hold up to being used 40 hours or more a week. Neat concept. The problem was a small customer base.
Hey Taryl great video my friend love the Lawn Boy just Something about them before this video never new a rubber blade existed tell your son and slip dog I said hi God bless you all and there's your Dinner 😂😂😂😂🎉
I sharpen mine going over tree roots and rocks...
Running over an empty old shoe would show that all blades are dangerous. Too many people have lost body parts from power mowers. Thanks for the safety demo.
The claim that it won't cut your foot reminds me of one of Bill Engvall's "stupid" skits.
"There was a guy inventing a shark-bite suit. There's only one way to test that..."
I have never heard of the safety blade before
I found a add on this lawn mower blade from 1988 from a John Chung It sold for $12 same as on yours. It's biggest selling feature was it won't cut your fingers or your toes off plus if you hit a walkway slab It won't damage it and that it's self sharpening.