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I have retired after being in business since 1976 and now I can read about mowers and I also just completed making a homemade lawn vac for my John Deere X595
Terry

Tzaspel


I hope you have a great retirment, enjoy life it to short most of the time. Glad to see your here hope to hear a lot more from you welcome aboard I see you are from Minnesota what part of the state are you from i'm in the southwest corner.:licking:

tzaspel said:

I also just completed making a homemade lawn vac for my John Deere X595
Terry

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Welcome aboard...
And now you have to post pictures... :biggrin:
:smile:KennyV

tzaspel said:

I have retired after being in business since 1976 and now I can read about mowers and I also just completed making a homemade lawn vac for my John Deere X595
Terry

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Well, congratulations and welcome to the forum.

Gotta wonder here, if you just retired from the business, are you now a member here because you now have free time to sit at a computer, or do you already miss your former career?

I retired 8 years ago as the lead carpenter/handyman/delivery driver/planner/warehouseman/troubleshooter fror a huge government agency, and a lot of days now I wonder..."how did I manage to get anything for ME done when I was working full time?"

Congrats again, and I am sure you will have PLENTY to contribute here, with all your experience and "free time" ....:biggrin:

tzaspel said:

I have retired after being in business since 1976 and now I can read about mowers and I also just completed making a homemade lawn vac for my John Deere X595
Terry

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During those 34 years did you send your blades out to a professional to have them cleaned, sharpened and balanced?

noma said:

Tzaspel


I hope you have a great retirment, enjoy life it to short most of the time. Glad to see your here hope to hear a lot more from you welcome aboard I see you are from Minnesota what part of the state are you from i'm in the southwest corner.:licking:

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I did my mowing in east central MN and now live in west central MN

SandburRanch said:

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During those 34 years did you send your blades out to a professional to have them cleaned, sharpened and balanced?

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I sharpened the blades myself, using a 7 inch angle grinder and clamped the blade in a vice

tzaspel said:

I sharpened the blades myself, using a 7 inch angle grinder and clamped the blade in a vice

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7 inch should do the job quickly... :thumbsup:
KennyV

Welcome to the forum Terry. Isn't retirement just grand! I'm sure you'll have some interesting tales to tell from your many years of working with lawn equipment.

Terry,congratulations on making it to retirement.I worked for uncle sam for 37 yrs and been retired for 6 now and still have to pinch myself to make sure it's true.hope to learn a lot from you. russ

Ive just started out almost a year ago in Australia as I moved there in Nov 2009 from New Zealand so im still new at this.
Im sure you would have some good information for someone like myself.
Anyway good luck to yourself and hope now that you have time to do the things that you injoy.
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