We have submitted no less then six blades to Husqvarna Blue Bird for inspection. I have submitted pictures including pictures of my other Brand of Bed Edger and its Blade design. I have personally handed a blade to Jody Kerr who is considered the top Manager of the Blue Bird division.  In one shipment I paid $50.00 to send blades directly to Blue Bird Engineers for inspection, we have also submitted blades to Husqvarna Blue Bird Distributors. The only answer I ever received was from a Husqvarna Blue Bird Service Rep who said the Machine was not designed to be used in the Rental Industry.  That was 5 years ago and Husqvarna Blue Bird still Market the same machine to the Rental Industry. 

The Dog Fence Installer Blades have two types of failures one is bending of the blade.  The Bending does not appear to be caused by hitting rocks. It appears to be a failure cause by building Blades from backing plates that are too thin and too soft for the application.  We are finding slight bending of the blades on almost every rental.

The second and more serious problem is the tips tearing off the Blades.  With Dog Fence Blades, we find most cracks during our post Rental Inspection.  We had one instance that a customer had a tip completely separate from the Blade.  This was a failure that the Safety enclosure failed to contain.

During the 2012, Rental Show a new style Blade was on display in the Husqvarna Blue Bird Booth.  It was a heaver built blade and this was supposed to eliminate Blade Failures.  (Bluebird has never acknowledged anything other than I am the only customer that has ever had Blade failures)  I ordered a few of them however, I was shipped the old style blades.  At the 2013 Rental Show I was told the new style Blades would not be shipped until the supply of old blades was exhausted.