That Lawn Dude crosses mower blades to tackle fallen leaves
His temporary X-blade setup pairs lift with shredding, while viewers have questions about balance, wear and that workshop floor.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 48,030 views a day, 7.3 times a normal first day on this channel (6,600).
Temporarily running X blades for leaf mulching #thatlawndude #leafremoval #lawncare #mowing
The mower goes up on a yellow lift, and That Lawn Dude crawls underneath with an impact wrench. His leaf-season preparations have reached the cutting deck: out come the mowing blades, in goes a crossed-blade arrangement designed to do two jobs at once.
The Short reached roughly 35,000 views in thirteen hours, already well beyond his usual full-day audience for the format. It follows his leaf-collection box build, but this time the job is about what happens beneath the mower rather than what gets hauled away.
He shows how an adapter holds a standard blade and a mulching blade on the same spindle. As he explains it, one provides the vacuum effect and the other the shredding effect. The installation also includes a small but consequential detail: he threads the bolts into the spindle by hand before using the impact wrench, to avoid cross-threading them.
Viewers are looking beyond the installation. Some ask whether the crossed blades balance properly and whether the extra load affects the spindle's reliability. Those are questions in the comments, not problems established by the demonstration.
And the equipment has an unexpected distraction beneath it. Several viewers pick out the workshop floor's color combination, with one asking whether That Lawn Dude filmed that project too.
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What viewers say
I love that Apoxy floor such a great color combo
@JamesRellaSee it on YouTubeLooks like a plus blade to me bro
@Potato-xm4ykSee it on YouTubeMy question with the blades would be the added stress on the spindle as things are engineered right to the limit nowadays. Would the extra weight and energy have an adverse affect on reliability?
@jeremyhansen8186See it on YouTube
4 more comments
How do you make sure your mowers stay level on that style of machine?
@RandomKellanLongSee it on YouTubeWhat type of jack is that
@BHunt4lifeSee it on YouTubeWhy don't you do two mulching blades?
@alpacabowl9077See it on YouTubeDid you NOT record that floor being done? People would have watched that.... 😂
@RandomConsumer-420See it on YouTube
Public comments from the video's page on YouTube
- Channel
- That Lawn Dude
- Subscribers
- 301,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 1,648,933
- Channel views, pace per day
- 155,124 (on a normal day: 215,869)
- Video published
- November 11, 2026
- Video views so far
- 34,690 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 48,030
The numbers
The blade-change Short has already passed That Lawn Dude's usual first-day views and comments, with its first day still unfinished.
💡 Test your knowledge
Which blades does That Lawn Dude pair in his temporary X-blade setup?
He shows a standard blade paired with a mulching blade on the X-blade adapter.


