The blade is spinning so fast that it's always the outside part that is doing the cutting. You'd have to be pushing the lawnmower very fast to get a piece of grass past the outer portion of blade before it is cut.
How do they figure out how much of the blade to sharpen? Would it work with just 2 inches sharpened?

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