Damn, what’s your process?
Meanwhile grandma: cooks meal for family of 10 just for you.
Rookie question here. Would this process ruin a hardened blade?
I was dunking this into water between the heavy grinding. Heat is the enemy there.
Wanna come over and do some heavy grinding? I don’t mind a little heat, bb
They banned you from shitposting so now you’re just shitposting everywhere huh? Just overflowing?
I’m a shitlord, what can I say?
I’m a little surprised I got banned, but apparently it’s not permanent, so that’s a good thing I guess.
Funnily enough, I used to be a commentator rather than a content generator, and now here I am
Well I got to make a post about it so it’s not all bad. At least not for me.
When it starts smoking use more lube.
Does it have wifi? Because I can almost see myself
Definitionally incorrect
Nice sharpening tho.
You know the pic is kinda shit when you need a whole backstory to it.
Your grandma is awesome if she’s still lumberjacking around
She’s OK.
She lives in a rowhouse with a tiny yard without a single tree on it. Maybe she need it for something else - or someone.
The plot thickens, do keep us apprised of developments. The polished surface should make it easier to remove contaminants.
That’s mostly why I polished it, though we might be thinking of different contaminants
With the mirrored finish, Gramgram can check her hair after she’s cleaved thine enemies in twain!
Never before have I heard this word, twain, and yet here we are…I’ve now read it twice in the same thread!
~Shia Labeouf~
You’re looking for your car, but you’re all turned around.
He’s almost upon you now.
For Radeon Raskolnikov.
I mean a grinder of that nature wouldn’t be too useful to me, too much too muchery.
But I keep a set of water stones to sharpen my straight razor - though I haven’t had a job I had to shave for in a while.
My EDC knives see more use from them these days.
She needs to take somebody’s head with it. Does not work differently.
Do you live in the American Frontier of 1840? Gonna need to build that cabin fast if you plan on making it through winter.
If all you have is a hatchet, I’d imagine a more waddle-and-daub situation rather than a cabin. For a proper cabin, you really need an axe with weight behind it, a hammer, wedges, and hopefully a tree saw (and then adz, draw knife (or similar) and so on for finish work). An ax, depending upon the type and health of a tree, is kinda a terrible way to take it down on its own.
this guy frontiers.
And if for some reason, in your frontier scenario, you have plywood and bracing material, you could go with a rammed earth structure!
I just learned about rammed earth and got a few books about it, it’s so fucking cool. I want to build a house with it now, so my great great great great great grandkids can inherit it
My grandpa once brought home a workbench grinder. Anything in the garage with a blade for sharpened. Even did the lawnmower blade
we had a handyman working on the house once and he asked my dad if he had a grinder and my dad brought out this hand cranked grind wheel
My grandparents had one too. I never once saw them sharpen anything, but it moved around the front yard every once in a while, so they must have been keeping it out for something.
My grandparents had one too.
A handyman? Yes, they do tend to move around the front yard.
Squirrelly little fellas
It’s actually really important to keep your lawnmower blades sharp. Makes the whole process much easier, and the engine won’t have to work as hard.
Just make sure they’re balanced before putting them back on!
Unbalanced blades cleans the inside of the deck though via vibrations
And sometimes the outside of the deck via through-deck action!
Where’s your sense of adventure?
/s
In the side yard, with my legs.
Uh does sharpening really do enough to unbalance it?
It really depends on your definition of balanced and how bad someone is at sharpening.
The blades are torqued down on there, if it’s a combustion engine mower, nothing’s you do to this blade sans taking an inch off is going to make much more vibration than the motor will itself.
The biggest worry is that you put enough vibration into it too cause it to loosen the blade.
If you’re even half reasonable sharpening you’re just taking off a fraction of a gram.
One or two times probably not but more than that likely will. Especially if there were major dents you grinded away. You can buy a cheap plastic tool to check the balance and then just grind away from the non blade side to balance it out.
If you grind the same on each side without trying to get rid of any dents, it would still add up?
It can, yes. Remember these are rather heavy blades spinning really fast, so it doesn’t take much.
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I hate my grass. It needs to suffer, get over exposed to the sun, and never watered.
Can’t wait to replace it with something not grass next year.
Until then, next time I need to cut it, I’m going to use a lawn mower blade supplied by the Chuck-e-Cheese kitchen to do the worst hack job ever.
Slowly replacing mine with a clover/daisy/fern fescue mix and it looks great and does so much better than grass
Painless and smell less
Yep. Grew up with my grandfather working on small engines (read:lawnmowers, either push or driven) and one of things he would do when doing maintenance on them was to sharpen the blades with an angle grinder. Mades mowing a lot easier and generally looks more uniform as well. The other thing was that it almost always is the carb if the engine has issues.
Absolutely! I had no idea until I mowed after that.
It also helps keep your grass healthy, because a dull blade will rip the grass instead of cutting it. If your grass clippings look frayed, it’s because they’re ripping.
I usually keep a pair of blades. The one off the mower gets sharpened for next time and then I do an oil change + swap yearly.
Shovel is a common item many don’t realize needs sharpening too
Wat!?
Like a spade for digging. Don’t sharpen your scoops for clearing snow.
It’s a bladed tool. You can absolutely notice a difference between a sharp and dull shovel. The edge rounds out in use. A quick touch-up with a file helps a ton.
Sharpen it until you can pluck a single hair from your head and drop it gently onto the blade and cut it in twain.
You can tell you did a good job if an ethereal slide whistle plays as you do this.
Grandmom?
Not as uncommon a phrase as you might think.
No, it’s definitely as uncommon as I think. Been on this planet 40 years and this is the firs time I’m hearing it. I’ve heard people way “pollywag” more often than this word.
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It’s okay not to know. English is spoken in a lot of different places in different ways. I doubt that in your 40 years you’ve explored this.
Google Trends shows that it’s most popular in Malaysia and the Philippines, relative to its use in other countries.
That explains it. Nobody in America says that and we outnumber the next three native English speaking countries combined.
I’m native to North Carolina and I’ve heard it before.
But this country has 40 or 50 regional dialects. Probably more.
India uses English as a lingua franca, they have their own phrases, dialect and everything, and they outnumber the American continent combined.
I did. And my family is from maryland.
Pollywag is a Gen 1 pokemon. All of those are fairly common words.
What are you doing, step-grandmom?
Welp, I’m moist.
Moist Von Lipwig?
Shirley Moist, From Lipwigs
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You should polish the entire head, it’d look sweet.
My grandma got mighty upset when I tried to polish her whole head.
Do or do not, there is no try.
There’s a dirty joke there somewhere…
Just the tip
Keep it clean, there’s someone’s grandma involved.
My grandma used to sharpen hers by slamming it down onto my neck. 🤔
