Inside the Shop Episode 9: Reel Grinding

In this episode of Inside the Shop presented by Hector Velazquez, we’ll learn about reel grinding, including a walk-through of spin grinding the reel and cutting a relief on each blade.

[@danielespinosa6421]

Loco you hit the nail on the head great work and video

[@joerollings56]

I had an old hook-line grinder in the '70s that ground the reel to the profile of the bed knife, since the bed knife sometimes would lightly curve when it was tightened back on to the machine. The standard back then was to adjust the clearance so that the machine, when tested with two pages from a phone book would cut the first page and leave the second page only marked or un cut. :) My grinder cost me $100, used. I see that now you can spend $6K on one, easily. NICE video! congratulations....Joe

[@marcusj97]

Love your videos.

[@kove]

This is the first video showing this, thanks! 💚

[@wcbscout]

Fancy finding a comment from you here. 😃

[@kove]

@@wcbscout We know what we like, even if .001% fine it interesting 😂

[@wcbscout]

@@kove Mazama, Ego battery system, and used Mclanes. I have a 17” and 20” I have been restoring.

[@kove]

@@wcbscout no kidding? I'd love to see progress on those projects. My greens mower McLean needs some TLC, one of the brackets is bent so the reel drive belt sometimes comes off. I keep putting other projects in front of it.

[@wcbscout]

@@kove let me google how to DM on YT and I will see what I can share.

[@MyDopeman]

Professional Video Hector, but most of this golf course mechanic don’t know what u even doing here.Because most of them get hire from who they know and not what they know especially in Connecticut golf courses.

[@JKCrane]

I read, reel type cut was invented in 1800 to cut shag carpets to even cut, then moved to cut the golf greens. started for sale in America in 1905. but who knows, can't believe everything you read.

[@mikemchugh5539]

how can you measure off of the center shaft when it is not a machined surface?

[@PushaDee]

You don't and it's poor practice to. Old reel grinders got their square from the reel shaft but reel shaft are no where near perfect. What you do is get the mower perfectly level to the surface, usually on a surface plate, then you set it on the grinder which is perfectly flat.

[@peters2620]

"We are just going to remove the bedknife real quick". 4 hours later with the screwheads all sheared, the oxy torch fired up.... Great video though!

[@FourDollaRacing]

How do I find a local shop that can do this? I'd rather not ship three reels across the USA....and back again!

[@arizonaadventureriders9384]

Most Toro and John Deere dealers grind.

[@howardwhitcomb6381]

And Jacobsen also vermont precision reel and grinding