(ET) Mower Problems

["Pestka, Dennis J" <Dennis Pestka mkg com>]

        Larry;

        Good point, I have noticed the same thing.

        I have to believe that the RPM of the blade motors is sufficient to
do the job.
        I think they are 2400 RPM. I have an old Farmall Cub with a 3 blade
        Woods belly mower that does a good job and I know doesn't turn as
fast as
        my Elec-Trak. 
        Maybe the speed is too fast?

        This leaves the suction possibility. I wonder if the air is too
restricted through 
        the rear discharge area and is forcing some of the grass or taller
weeds down.
        Most mowers have a side discharge with less restriction. 
        They also don't have the baffles around each blade as the Elec-Trak
has.

        Has anyone tried removing the side guard or baffles ?
        Or I hate to think of this but drilling holes in the top of the 
deck
to relieve air
        pressure?

        Any experience or thoughts from anyone ?

        Dennis 



> On the side question; has anyone else but me noticed that the ET is MUCH
> better at cutting 
> grass than it is with dandelions?  Seriously, you have to drop the speed 
> a
> LOT for just a 
> few dandelions, yet the grass all around is cut.  Is it the suctionless
> design of the blades, 
> or the slightly slower blade speed, or something else?
> 
> Larry Elie
> 
>