Re: (ET) Mower deck cut quality

[Pieter Litchfield <pieter_litch yahoo com>]

I mounted some brand new perfectly sharp blades this year,
and the cut was beautiful and quiet - what a difference perfect blade
balance makes.  But I still get a stripe.  The cause - I
believe its the tires flattening the grass so that on the next pass the
mower is trying to cut flattened grass.  My rear discharge front
mounted deck doesn't seem to have huge suction, so it doesn't stand the
grass back up.  My solution is to do more frequent cuttings so that
the grass doesn't get real long.  But with the rainy weather we have
been having here (NY), its a challenge...
 


At 10:03 PM 6/26/2008, RJ Kanary wrote:
>      And
> here's one more thing about sharpening blades that is often 
> overlooked.Square / straight ends of the cutting surface.The blades tend
> to wear more at the ends because that's where the highest rotational
> velocity is present.The mistake that is often made during sharpening is
> that the cutting surface at the blade tip is no longer parallel with the
> blade edge.It may be sharpened, but the end is not square.
>      This allows the blade to knock the grass over
> instead of cutting it 
> at the end of it's sweep..THAT is what leaves the stripes of improperly
> cut grass in your lawn.
>
> RJ
>
>
> Clean Power Supply wrote:
> >  If your Elec-Trak deck meets all of the criteria below it
> should produce that nice cut of which you speak.
> >
> >  Sharp blades-all of the same size.
> >  Blades all spinning in the proper rotation :-)
> >  A good deck-not twisted and bent from abuse.
> >  Good deck rollers and caster wheels.
> >  Rollers and wheels adjusted to have deck level.
> >
> >  Sincerely,
> >  Harold Zimmerman
> >  Clean Power Supply
> >  Supplier of Elec-Trak parts.
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > I have heard alot of talk about how the Elec Trac mower decks do not
> give   a good cut, and I would like to know what kind of mower
> are being compared   to. I recently started using an I-5 and it
> gives a better quality cut than   any mower I have ever owned
> except for a push mower. My previous   experiance with moweres
> is limited to three brands, Arens, John Deer, and   Roper and
> none of them had a deck that lasted, or gave as good a cut as  
> the Elec Trak.
> >
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