Deejay, Grumpy & Joe.
OK - did the "just contact then back off 1/8 turn thing" with my blade adjust. The reel & bedblade don't touch at all and whilst it felt a bit wierd (given my lifetime of incorrectly adjusting the blades so they made contact with the bedkbnife) - it worked a treat. Less noise and a much cleaner cut even on my tough buffalo grass. Tks Guys - your advise was spot on and much apprecieted.
P/S Look what Council has just delivered to my SB45 for Xmas!
Somehow I think that I am going to need more than a couple of 6 packs to get around this lot.
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Anyway - my 1st task on Monday is to see if I can bribe these guys to move the pipe and concrete pits onto the road so I can at least give the nature strip a mow / tidy-up before Santa comes.
Somehow - from the look of the pipes and pits - I don't think there will be much left of my nature strip in the New Year - and damn-it I just recently spread about 1/2 bag of "stinky pellet" lawn food on to that grass.
As I said - I have done something bad to upset the "Lawn Gods"