Originally Posted by Lubener
Originally Posted by atikovi
Why balance mower blades? It's just a pound or two of solid uniform steel. If it's so bent out of shape, you need a new one.
Do you have tires balanced? Same thing but more critical. Being bent has nothing to do with balance. Someone who sharpens a blade and not balances it, doesn't know what they are doing and probably shouldn't be operating power equipment.
I agree that balancing is better - it just makes semse. But it's safe to say the majority of people don't sharpen blades (as in, no maintenance required to a machine at all), the majority of those who do sharpen blades don't balance, and even some (maybe all?) new blades come unbalanced. So how much difference does it actually make?