Based on the wear of my mower’s cutting disks, it looks like the mower drives the cutting discs in one direction of rotation all of the time (unconfirmed.) If the motor(s) driving the cuttings heads can be reversed, it would allow for the cutting surfaces on the opposite side of the blades to be used, effectively doubling the time between blade changes.
This is out of left field and I don’t know of (a) the mowing attachment already does this, (b) if the cutting direction is reversible as implemented, or (c) if there are good reasons that the cutting discs only rotate in one direction. Just putting it out into the ether for consideration.
The mower does only spin the discs in one direction and that is to minimize the grass buildup around the guards. Spinning the other direction it would throw grass into them and could cause clogging. You can easily flip the blades up to 4 times to fully utilize them.
Gotcha! I figured that the rotation was likely directional for a reason. Good tip on using the full length of the blades on both sides by swapping which hole is used, too.
It looks like the discs are counter-rotating, which means that swapping the discs from one side to the other would accomplish the same as swapping each blade to the opposite side. Not a lot of difference in removing and reinstalling fasteners, but easier for a simple guy like me to keep oriented. =)
As an adjacent feature. It would be nice if there was a way in the app where you could mark that you had either put new blades in, or flipped them - and it could keep track of how many mowing hours have been put onto those blades so that it could recommend flipping or replacing blades after X hours of mow time as a notification in the app.
