New blades ??

sgkent

sgkent

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Toro 21" rear wheel recycler - 2006 vintage. Have two blades that I alternate use of. Take one off and put the other on. Then at convenience the one taken off gets glass beaded, sharpened, balanced, and painted for the next swap. These blades are essentially 20 years old at this point. They have some life left but there is no question that they are not as wide as when new. Trying to decide whether to keep using them or replace them. At some point I would think that there has to be fatigue. If they are replaced, anyone have a suggestion what is the quietest blade that gives the best lift into a rear catch bag? The present blades can be used either for mulching or bagging. They do a pretty good job of mulching when we put the plug in. I was looking at Oregon and Ballard, or the original Toro blade 108-3762-03
 
My experience with Toro's, good mowers but they are not true bagging machines. To me, they are like Honda mowers. Just good at most things and not great at any. Only one true bagging champ out there.

Quiet blades generally have no lift. Toro's are generally considered mulchers or what I call weed spreaders.
 
or what I call weed spreaders
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why we bag. I was thinking a high lift Ballard blade but I do not know blades well. Looked online at some videos and they came up well. They are tungsten carbide edges though, so they may be a lot harder to sharpen unless I get new angle grinder sanding discs. I normally don't use the bench grinder because it is harder to control the grind to keep it even. The discs used are aluminum oxide so I don't know if it will touch the tungsten carbide without damaging it. Generally the factory edge on blades is less sharp and leaves a more jagged grass blade than one I have sharpened.
 
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