Abstract: A rotary lawn mower blade is provided with opposite end dependingly supported rake springs. Each of the springs comprises a closed coil spring body whose upper end is removably supported from the underside of the corresponding rotary mower blade end and the lower convolution of each coil spring body includes a downwardly directed vertical spring tine or finger. The mower blade incorporates a pair of elongated opposite end blade end sections including remote and adjacent ends with the adjacent ends thereof disposed in end overlapped engagement with each other and the adjacent ends include meshed projections and recesses spaced longitudinally therealong. The adjacent ends are longitudinally slotted and a threaded shank type fastener is passed upwardly through the slots and may be threaded in a blind bore formed in the lower end of the vertical engine shaft of a rotary mower.