Many years ago I had an old basic mower. My neighbors moved out so I
decided to mow their tall grass one day. Not being familiar with their
yard, and the grass being pretty tall, I hit a stump. I cranked the
mower back up and it ran, but vibrated a lot. The blade seemed
straight, so I assumed that the end of the crankshaft was bent. I put
the mower up on a couple of workbenches and got under it. I rotated the
crank until I figured out which way it bent, and hit it pretty hard with
a big hammer. I managed to straighten it enough that it was usable again.
> Judging from the number of replies that Wayne has already received, I betting
> that just about all of us has run our mower over any thing that it will cut,
> or die trying, and then hammered the blade back straight and got another few
> years out the old mower. :-)
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