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Hi Chris,
I have one 42" rear- and one 42" side-discharge. The only differences
are:
1) the cover plate on the rear discharge vs chute on side
discharge,
2) the blade baffle on the rear discharge is oriented 180 degrees from the
side discharge baffle and has two additional "tails" between the blades (at the
intersection of the two arcs), and
3) the rear discharge has a rubber "projectile guard" covering the rear
discharge opening.
You ought to be able to cut off the additional tails, flip the baffle
around, and replace the cover plate with a 16 or 12-guage chute (that you
fabricate on a metal brake).
As for collecting the clippings in the center of a rectangle, it's harder
than it sounds. First, with each successive circuit around the yard, your
discharge consists not only of the grass you just cut, but also that of all
preceeding rows cut. By the 3rd or 4th pass, it's chucking quite a bit of
grass. Also, when you get to about two rows out from the center, the
clippings start to blow over the uncut center rows, and onto the grass
you've already cut. You can rake this, but blowing didn't work very well
for me--clippings got caught up on the grass blades.
Good luck,
Tom
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