On Wed, 12 May 2021 08:24:16 -0400, micky
wrote:

In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 12 May 2021 04:53:26 -0700 (PDT), trader_4
wrote:

On Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at 11:45:27 PM UTC-4, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Tue, 11 May 2021 22:25:10 -0400,
wrote:


My elecric lawn mower has for years occasionally left cresent-shaped
strips an inch wide, even though I was sure I'd covered the area.
Suddenly this spring, the same mower seems to barely cut.
But I usually don't get started mowing this early, when it's still cool
out. 60 to 65.
Does warm weather make grass plump and easier to mow?????



Clean out all the old and new grass build-up from the deck.
and clean & sharpen the blade.
https://tinyurl.com/454m9nj6
John T.


I appreciate your going to the trouble to answer.
But despite that, the question is still pending.
Does warm weather make grass plump and easier to mow?????
Does warm weather make grass easier to mow for any reason at all?????


Warm or cool weather - doesn't matter ... if your deck is
all clogged up with grass and your blade is gummed up
and dull - you'll get a poor result. Be sure to unplug it.

https://tinyurl.com/jbvf2a8p

John T.
Then it's very strange that it's cut just about the same for years, and
all of a sudden it's doing so much worse this week.

Seems very strange that if it's temperature related, you're only experiencing
it this year, in early May, but not in other years.

In other years, maybe every year, I haven't gotten around to mowing the
lawn for weeks. The lot is tucked away and I have a picket fence and
bushes, so the neighbors can't see** how bad my lawn looks, but still I
am ashamed that I haven't taken better care of it. **One neighbor, not
a real close one but who drives by frequently, told me she'd been here
10 years and never knew my house was here.

I mow the lawn every year
into December, sometimes into early January.

Wow. I think mine stops growing before than, and I live south of you.

Cuts the same.

There is still the theoretical possibility that it's dehydrated in the
spring, but once the hot weather plumps it up, the cool or cold weather
doesn't have the opposite effect until maybe march. I doubt this a
lot, but who knows.

As to the recommendations from some for me to sharpen the blade, it's
much more important to me to investigate this than to mow the lawn.

Science for its own sake.


By the middle of May mine USUALLY has pretty much turned to tough dry
straw - it is lush and juicy in the spring. I mowed mine for the first
time this spring on Saturday. Usually I would have mowed it 3-5 times
already. I will be doing some re-seeding as soon as I get rid of the
speedwell and spurge that has joined the Plantain and Dandelion in
choking out my grass - - -

Those later
mowings are weeks apart, just to even it out and make it look great again
as it;s still slowly growing.

Maybe mine does too. I'll have to check.



I'm even tempted to not sharpen the blade until after it gets hot here,
to see if maybe you and Clare are wrong, at least about my grass, and it
does cut better when hot out, even with the same lawn mower.