Raise your hand if...

[dikowt dowg]

I will use one if I have to, but grinders are a great way to make serrated blades.

Are you a hand file guy too?

 

[MAIZEandBLUE09]

THIS is the way. Using an angle grinder or a file is a recipe for disaster. Take the blade off and use a mounted bench grinder. Better results and much safer.

Sorry OP, sounds painful.

I take the blade off, but it's a Honda so it has a bit of an unusual (and curved) blade, and two different blades to make up the mechanism. A few swipes with a metal file usually gets it right back to good (and did, as illustrated by taking my thumb off lol).

 

[batchaps4me]

No you are not.

I was going to ask for his car and RIP him but restraint got the best of me. That and the threat of having to go to Michigan to retrieve a Pruis.

 

[MAIZEandBLUE09]

Nah man...gotta have the bench grinder.

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Takes 2:00 minutes per blade.,tops. Another 30 minutes to pop off the deck, take off and re-install the blades

I have a walk behind so it takes just a couple minutes to pop the blades out and put them in my vice. My honda has these two layered blades which make using power tools a bit harder. The file takes just a couple minutes per edge

 

[batchaps4me]

Are you a hand file guy too?

Belt sander. About the only thing I hand file is a chainsaw chain.

 

[MAIZEandBLUE09]

Man...I hate that. So you have my sympathy. I'm always getting cut up by something. I try to avoid losing digits though.

I think cleaning out the weeds wrapped up in the tines in my garden tiller is the worst. Tiller blades sharben up like a razor after going through the dirt and removing the grass between all that sharpness is a hazard that requires kevlar. I always come out of it cut up.

Hope you heal quickly and with as little pain as possible. A thump no less. ugh. You need your thumbs. Ask a monkey.

It's my dominant hand too. So I look like a gimp performing any task. You should have seen me trying to brush my teeth with my left hand lol

 

[batchaps4me]

It's my dominant hand too. So I look like a gimp performing any task. You should have seen me trying to brush my teeth with my left hand lol

Hang in there, it will get easier. I broke my hand and had to have 4 pins put in back when I was still in school and had to do everything left handed. It was a handy skill to develop and has served me well over the years. I still brag that I am almost a hermaphrodite ...

 

[outofyourmind]

I have a walk behind so it takes just a couple minutes to pop the blades out and put them in my vice. My honda has these two layered blades which make using power tools a bit harder. The file takes just a couple minutes per edge

This is my set up too.

I guess I have it down to an art form.
Take them off.
Sharpen all 4 cutting surfaces with grinder.
Re-install

Under 10 minutes

 

[fishinabarrel]

This is your friend

He almost cut his thumb off while using a file. You want him to murder himself?

 

[fishinabarrel]

Also,.a couple years ago I found out I could buy a brand new blade for my push mower $40 online. So guess what I do now instead of sharpening? Lol

 

[MAIZEandBLUE09]

Also,.a couple years ago I found out I could buy a brand new blade for my push mower $40 online. So guess what I do now instead of sharpening? Lol

Those blades are like axes, they don't typically come very sharp - if dare I say - they come dull

He almost cut his thumb off while using a file. You want him to murder himself?

very true. I'd probably be without a hand.

 

[Inquisitor]

THIS is the way. Using an angle grinder or a file is a recipe for disaster. Take the blade off and use a mounted bench grinder. Better results and much safer.

Sorry OP, sounds painful.

Or pay a professional to do it. Cheaper than paying for an ER visit.

 

[MAIZEandBLUE09]

Or pay a professional to do it. Cheaper than paying for an ER visit.

Went to urgent care -- entirely covered, no copay, with my insurance

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

And @MAIZEandBLUE09, sorry to hear you got hurt.

I'll second that.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

A thumb no less. ugh. You need your thumbs.

I hope he can keep it out of his ass to avoid infection.

 

[Inquisitor]

Went to urgent care -- entirely covered, no copay, with my insurance

 

[fordman84]

Nah man...gotta have the bench grinder.

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Takes 2:00 minutes per blade.,tops. Another 30 minutes to pop off the deck, take off and re-install the blades

Riding mower maybe, but a push mower shouldn't take more than 2-3 minutes to remove, sharpen, install. Flip on its side with the carb down, put your foot against the blade so it won't spin, hit with an impact, sharpen, reinstall.

When I was in the shop we would charge $35 for a mower tune up that included an oil change, carb adjustment (none needed, ever), sharpen the blade, new plug and filter. I got an hourly rate and 10% commission. I love the spring time when we had a sea of mowers for tune ups. I would knock out 15-20 an hour. Great money for a dumb HS kid, roughly $85/hr. And if we needed to clean the carb it was $10 more and took another 2 minutes unless it was an MF'in Honda mower or Lawn Boy.

 

[fordman84]

I have a walk behind so it takes just a couple minutes to pop the blades out and put them in my vice. My honda has these two layered blades which make using power tools a bit harder. The file takes just a couple minutes per edge

mulching blade. Way safer, and better, to remove it since they then separate and you can get a good edge on both.

 

[fordman84]

It's my dominant hand too. So I look like a gimp performing any task. You should have seen me trying to brush my teeth with my left hand lol

Had to wipe yet? T's and P's.

 

[fordman84]

Also,.a couple years ago I found out I could buy a brand new blade for my push mower $40 online. So guess what I do now instead of sharpening? Lol

Sharpen the one you took off and rotate, for tha win.