Re: How are you getting at your lawn tractor blade?

Mac Cool wrote:
> If I raise the deck I can just barely get under there to sharpen the
> blade with a file. I can tip it on it's side but that hardly seems
> good for the mower. I've been thinking of building some kind of 
> ramp.

I made a 3 section ramp that the space between the tires could be 
removed when the mower was parked on top of the ramp, leaving space to 
get to the blades. I only ramped up 1 side 8" and that gave me plenty 
of room to remove the blades and sharpen them on my bench grinder. 
Beat filing with a hand file any day. You do notice all this is past 
tense. I sold the farm with the 5 acre lawn!!  My 40 X 50 foot lawn 
now is in miniature mundo grass that I mow with a walk behind self 
propelled mower once a year.
:-)
Tom J