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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).

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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
  • Looks like a plus blade to me bro
    @Potato-xm4ykSee it on YouTube
  • My 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 YouTube
  • What type of jack is that
  • Why don't you do two mulching blades?
    @alpacabowl9077See it on YouTube
  • Did you NOT record that floor being done? People would have watched that.... 😂
    @RandomConsumer-420See it on YouTube

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The facts
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.

the video's first day
usual first day here
6,600
this video
48,030
subscribers
301,000
▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days
total views
173,113,399
views per day
155,124
typical day: 215,869
the video
views
34,690
likes
1,055
comments
47
days online
1
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
As of November 12, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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