Take care

glasshouse · Jun 9, 2023

Ihated the grass hopper, it gave me the sh1!s
An object once came through closed back window and out through side window.
I have a mounted kuhn now, so driver is safe

kiwi pom · Jun 9, 2023

Bury the Trash said:
yes it happens had one some years ago, blade came off when mowing a field near houseing sestate, went thriugh a lounge window , and landed on a sofa , the man of the house was out that evening but was his normal seat for watching telly, they were very nice about it all iirc, , i just got insurance to put in new double glazed unit by a local (not rip off) firm

Bolt on or quick change? Don't think I've ever completely lost a bolt on.

Lost a back window from a stone once.

Bury the Trash · Jun 9, 2023

kiwi pom said:
Bolt on or quick change? Don't think I've ever completely lost a bolt on.

Lost a back window from a stone once.

springy holder/quick change but i think the actuall reasoin was a damaged blade 9by a stone or what ever ) rather than total holder weakness ,long time ago tho cant ttotally remmeber about it.

Fubar · Jun 9, 2023

Those circular saw blades that fit on the end of hedge trimmers frighten me . Imagine if that thing came off!

Bury the Trash · Jun 9, 2023

be like a frisbee

Kidds · Jun 9, 2023

Fubar said:
Those circular saw blades that fit on the end of hedge trimmers frighten me . Imagine if that thing came off!

I built my own circular saw for logs. I tested the emergency stop early on in the development by pulling the string to the stop button on my 35. The shaft stopped as soon as the engine did but the blade didn't. It kept spinning and in the process undid the big nut holding it on.
I knew what had happened but didn't know whether to run, duck or what. Fortunately the blade just spun on the shaft until it stopped but if it had come off the end of the shaft I have no idea what would have gone.
I built a cage around the blade after that, if it happens again it will be inside the cage but even that would be pretty scary. In reality you only need the emergency stop if there is a log jammed so the blade isn't freewheeling anyway.

deere 6600 · Jun 10, 2023

years ago blade came off my jd mower in open back window out the windscreen once I thought about it scariest moment ever back window closed now Ooooft

grainboy · Jun 10, 2023

Kidds said:
I built my own circular saw for logs. I tested the emergency stop early on in the development by pulling the string to the stop button on my 35. The shaft stopped as soon as the engine did but the blade didn't. It kept spinning and in the process undid the big nut holding it on.
I knew what had happened but didn't know whether to run, duck or what. Fortunately the blade just spun on the shaft until it stopped but if it had come off the end of the shaft I have no idea what would have gone.
I built a cage around the blade after that, if it happens again it will be inside the cage but even that would be pretty scary. In reality you only need the emergency stop if there is a log jammed so the blade isn't freewheeling anyway.

Surely blade nut should have been left hand thread, ??

glasshouse · Jun 10, 2023

deere 6600 said:
years ago blade came off my jd mower in open back window out the windscreen once I thought about it scariest moment ever back window closed now Ooooft

Window wont stop it

jd6820 · Jun 10, 2023

I do wonder if these quick change holders are worth the time saved. I know I've lost 3 or 4 blades out of the holders. Could be stones or clump of sod that dislodges them? I think bolt-on would without a doubt stay put even if colliding with something. I don't do masses of mowing so wonder if changing back to bolt-on blades is the best solution? Must admit I too run Krone mowers, front and rear.

sahara · Jun 10, 2023

Well I've just changed all the blades on our Lely. After reading this, I think I'll just check the bolts again, just to be sure!

nearly there · Jun 10, 2023

A local farmer switched from kverneland trailed to krone he said he never managed to loosed blades off the kverneland but the krone plenty that was one thing that stood out for him have two kuhns with quick fit and no blade lost but have hit good big stones from time to time going to near ditches and they remain in place local contractor with a big m say the holders wear on the quick change

Speedstar said:
When out mowing the other day and a blade came off the mowers ,cleared 10ft hedge a main road another 10ft hedge then crossed a big garden and when in to the house by breaking a double glazed door ,then hit a wood burning stove and then ended up on a kitchen worktop. form the mower to the house would be 100 metres 5 mins before that the lady and kids were watching the mower from that very window. We were very luck

Kidds · Jun 10, 2023

grainboy said:
Surely blade nut should have been left hand thread, ??

When the blade is being driven the nut is being tightened but when the shaft stops and blade carries on it undoes the nut.

glasshouse · Jun 10, 2023

There was that accident years ago in scotland where farmers wife brought out the tea and got a blade in the forehead.

suffolksmallholder · Jun 10, 2023

Slightly off topic but similar;
There was an article about timber harvesting and the stupidity of the general public ignoring the warning signs and entering into the harvesting machinery's danger zone.
Having seen ‘chain-shot’ and also lost a mulcher hammer, from a poor forging, I can well understand how a mower blade could travel so far.
SS

d williams · Jun 10, 2023

Speedstar said:
We never claim for any thing under 2K now a days

You adjusted your excess?? Any savings in the premiums
The blade still in tact or had the hole failed??

e5c0rt.mk1 · Jun 10, 2023

Someone my dad went to school with had a couple of fingers chopped off with a mower blade when he was a kid.

He was stood leaning against a fence post, hands on the top of it with his head resting on his hands watching the farmer cutting when a blade hit the top of the post chopping his fingers off. If it hit 6 inches further up, left or right he would of been dead.

We were all told that story every year when the mower came out. It definitely made you think twice about going anywhere near it.

roscoe erf · Jun 10, 2023

I can't see how being carful will stop this from happening unless it wasn't fitted correctly

chickens and wheat · Jun 10, 2023

I guess the care part is getting the cheque book out and buying plenty of spare attachment parts and replacing before failure

Martin Holden · Jun 10, 2023

Speedstar said:
When out mowing the other day and a blade came off the mowers ,cleared 10ft hedge a main road another 10ft hedge then crossed a big garden and when in to the house by breaking a double glazed door ,then hit a wood burning stove and then ended up on a kitchen worktop. form the mower to the house would be 100 metres 5 mins before that the lady and kids were watching the mower from that very window. We were very lucky

Jeez!! That was very unlucky and dangerous all in one! Normally they skin across the ground and speed gets scrubbed off but sounds like yours snapped and took off?

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