The Husband does occasionally come up with good tricks for the tractor bucket, like the time he wondered if we could drive t-posts into the ground with the tractor bucket instead of the t-post driver. (It worked like a charm.) Yesterday, he wondered if he could drive the lawnmower's front tires into the bucket and lift the bucket enough to change the lawnmower blades without having to remove the mower deck.
I first heard this idea last night at margarita night with the brother- and sister-in-law. It sounded like a "hey y'all, watch this!" idea that could result in injury or death. When the BiL seconded the idea with a big "Hell yeah!" it only increased my concerns.
Regular reader(s) may remember that we just installed new lawnmower blades two or three weeks ago. Why do we need new ones now? When I was sent to the store to buy blades, I was told to get 42" blades. It turned out that the lawnmower takes 46" blades. Because the blades didn't quite meet, we mohawked our yard and Nanny's yard for a couple of weeks before we got to the store for longer blades.
Anyway . . . .
The Husband's blade-changing plan worked well. We scotched the mower's back tires with some 2 x 4s and he slowly raised the bucket. I stood nearby to watch for trouble, but the lawnmower stayed put. I set a thick block of wood under the frame so that if something freaky happened, the lawnmower wouldn't fall all the way down. The B-i-L's impact wrench made the blade removal/installation easy. 5 minute job.
WTG, Husband. ;)
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