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Re: (ET) mulching
Thanks. En passant you just solved my problem of 'can't find blades
short enough'.. Will just remove the baffles around em, put on a longer
blade. Have had these Etractors for years and have been using ;much
resharpened' GE blades until I finally ran out of ones with enough metal
to sharpen this year..
Dave
Weymouth MA
On Tue, 23 May 2006 15:38:38 -0400 Barry Woods <barry woods wright edu>
writes:
>
> I am the member who is using the gator blades (although I believe
> there may
> be one other who is also.)
>
> This is the third year of using the blades and have not encountered
> any
> problems. Yes, they do use more power (I don't recall the exact
> value I
> measured using Steve S.'s meter) but there has been no negative
> consequences. I only had one motor shutdown once and this was when
> mowing
> tall, wet grass.
>
> The gator blades cut better than the standard Elec-Trak blades and
> work well
> in the fall to mulch leaves. They are louder, however, than the OEM
> blades
> due to their aerodynamics.
>
> Gator blades do not require you close off your chutes. My deck is
> totally
> open, right discharge chute uncovered, no flap on the rear and no
> baffling
> under the deck. The gator blades were just slightly larger the
> standard
> blades and hit the baffles. The deck works fine without them.
>
> If you read the gator blade literature you will see the small wings
> on the
> blades are designed to throw the clippings straight up in the deck
> so they
> will fall back down over the blades.
>
> This is apparently true as there is little discharge from the side
> or back
> deck openings.
>
> Barry
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