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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d7G7GhI9mI

I did not look under the deck when I bought a YT46LS this year, found out later it had this system. I have taken the blades off one time so far and I was anything but rapid, actually the hardest part for me was getting the cap off. Maybe next time it will go faster but the video is misleading, in my opinion

It only takes 15 seconds, provided the mower is new and there is no grass or other debris under the deck an the plastic has never gotten hot and shrunk making it impossible to remove without breaking this part :thumbdown:which of course will be over $ 100

bertsmobile1 said:

It only takes 15 seconds, provided the mower is new and there is no grass or other debris under the deck an the plastic has never gotten hot and shrunk making it impossible to remove without breaking this part :thumbdown:which of course will be over $ 100

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15 seconds? Guess I need to practice, but then what is even the use? :shocked:


It is, what it is, so i'll try and make the best of it, blow it out with compressed air once in a while.

I have a Husqvrana YT46LS with the "RapidReplace System. The system is a failure. There are no aftermarket blades available. The covers are poor quality, and expensive. It is a solution to a problem that did not exist. What could be simpler than a one bolt securing system? The design engineer should have gotten from behind the desk and changed a few blades.:thumbdown:

Swapped out spindles and and went to Gator blades. Problem solved, total upgrade!

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Swapped out spindles and and went to Gator blades. Problem solved, total upgrade!

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It is cheaper to repair the system this way. I had a customer that both the spindle blade mount where bent. I save the customer nearly 1 hundred dollars by swapping back the old style system.

Johnnystop said:

Swapped out spindles and and went to Gator blades. Problem solved, total upgrade!

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Solved a problem of a solution that was meant to solve a problem that didn't exist....

Welcome to the new world

I went back and looked at that vid... There's no way I would trust engineering like that to hold blades in place.
The idiots that design such crap have obviously never changed blades, hit unwanted objects in tall grass.. got cables, hoses or anything thing else winded up around a set of blades.. where backing out a simple bolt would solve the problem..

Nothing like an improvement that ends up costing you more. Wonder where they find their engineers...r

It is not an improvement and never was meant to be
The star system used to hold their blades works perfectly and rarely gives any design problems other than breaking off one of the mounting lugs when the blades strike a solid object because there is not enough slip in the system .
And Husqvarna addressed that by going from 3 bolt to 4 bolt spindle housings .
It originated from the marketing department as a sales feature to encourage people to buy their mower over the almost identical JD
Much like the No Oil Change briggs engines.
They paid some PR mob a lot of money to poll consumers to find out what was the most difficult / onerous task maintaining their mower and no surprise that blade changing came out tops because most Joe Average's do not have a big enough rattle gun to easily shift the bolt nor a tension wrench to replace it .
The biggest problem with Husqvarna mowers is the flimsey thin blades that bend if they hit a fart which is why I don't fit them , particularly their rubbish mulching blade which I regularly find fitted upside down .
They are really only suited to places that snow so have fine soft grass in the spring.
I have some old Cox & Greenfields mowers that I loan out during spring when I get overwhelmed
Just about every one who has used them wants to buy them off me rather than going back to their orange junk piles and quite a few sell their current model & go pay twice as much for a used Greenfields or Cox which costs 1/4 to maintain and 1/2 to 2/3 to run as they don't fit massively overpowered engines to cover up poor deck designs ,

I think the real problem is some try mowing rocks and tree roots with their mowers. This is only time I have belt blades myself. Some people also try to make bush hogs out their mowers. They are not meant to cutting two foot grass all at once. Of cours I got one customer that thinks he mow bricks with his mower so I get to replace deck parts a lot.

Hell I even I tried mowing a tree stump myself by accident. It didn't go well I broke a $225 JD spindle.

I have never been a fan of the husqvarna riding mowers. They look cool but the quality is the same as the old AYP craftsman mowers.

With swing back blade this is not a problem with the locally made ride ons
But of course this is the country where Euclyptus trees come from and one of their characteristics is dropping branches at will so we have a lot of tree branches that no one bothers to clean up before they mow and of course if you are mowing 5+ acres you are not going to walk the entire yard first .
I do have a problem customer ( city working tree changers ) that finally bought a drag behind rake , a bit late now as they have cooked the right hydro as flicked up branches have ripped all of the fan blades off.
The Parker overheated, popped the filler cap & blew all of the oil out

That's property owners should keep their property cleaned up. Doing at as it happens takes a lot least time. Of course you still got to get rid of piles. And swing back blade which our bush hogs rotary mowers uses are meant just that type of work. Fixed blades are not. Right now I got a lot crepe myrtle trimming on my lawn, just waiting a dry low wind dry to burn them.

Here I have 6 acres with Bradford pear trees but they don't drop small limbs sometimes it is half a tree so you can't missed unless you are completely blind.

Gave up burning decades ago
Now I put a row or 2 of bricks around the base of trees some where near the drip line
When I prune I drop the branches directly into the shredder and spread it around the base of the tree
1) reduces the amount of grass to be mowed
2) returns nutrients to the soil
3) saves a stack of time
When the arbourist come around to trim the street trees from power lines I get them to dump the trimmings out front & add them to the piles around the trees , works a treat
All lower branches get removed then it is 3 sprays with Glyco per year and job done
Occasionally I will bring a pot of strawberries or garlic and pop them around the tree bases

Sounds that is working for you but I just don't have the spare time to do the chipping myself here hence the burning besides the thorns really tears me up while chipping. One a week to get the housework and other shopping duties done then there is just not enough time to do other things.

StarTech said:

Sounds that is working for you but I just don't have the spare time to do the chipping myself here hence the burning besides the thorns really tears me up while chipping. One a week to get the housework and other shopping duties done then there is just not enough time to do other things.

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You miss the point.
The chipper is set up & running before I start pruning so all I do is cut a branch & drop it in the hopper unless I am using the saw so I end up doing 2 jobs at the same time .
The down side is it uses more fuel because the chipper is running for a long time empty and is noisy .
When the pruning is done U just rake the chips around .
Decades ago I used to prune onto a tarp, drag the tarp around to the compost area then shred
Often the shredding happened several weeks latter so the clippings were dry & hard which made the chipping slow & difficult plus dulled the blades .
In those days I was using an electric shredder and It was running for so long the plastic case got soft & the bearings came loose.
Once I learned the trick of poping the shredder on the tarp & throwing the clippings directly into it while still pruning the whole thing became so much easier & quicker .
Then I learned to put mulch mats under the shrubs / trees and let the shreds become the mulch around the base so I was doing 3 jobs , pruning, shredding & mulching at the same time
The final trick was the loose laid bricks around the drip line

Actually I don't so. I just don't have the spare time to do a lot lawn care work outside the 60+hrs I put in the shop. I am also by myself so the one day a week I get is full of other chores like housework and household shopping.