It seems you live quite a ways from civilization so it shouldn't matter what your lawn or field looks like, maybe get some goats. If you don't like that idea then maybe you have a friend in a larger city that could buy and ship to you for less than the online dealers charge. If you don't have any friends then I would do it for you. Let me know. Just offering.
Best high lift blade for my D130
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Thanks, I did. Their prices are decent but unless I guy more than one set the shipping will kill me.
I am getting the feeling that most here believe the OEM are the best blade? The Predators and JD blades are all made in the same factory. The one JD dealer on Ebay, sells the Predator II's and he says they are better and made at the same factory the JD brand is. I am not sure I need those teeth on a blade. I need a blade that will push. The high lift OEM blades look pretty good. Nothing fancy..
Thank you.
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And that guy is full of shat saying the predators are better than JD blades, JD has their blades hardened and with their composition they are not the same as the predator. The JD blades are high-carbon, nickel alloy steel, and made to JD specs.
Now I am not saying the predator blades are not any good they are a good quality made blade also with very nice specs on them as well, but to make a statement they are better than OEM JD is not right and he should have never said that.
E-bay has more people full of shat about JD and JD products than this site does. I had a guy on e-bay tell me his rotarty spindles were made in the same factory as the JD spindles, I mean this guy told me twice the same thing, well after I received them I opened one, took about 5 seconds to see they were junk and found china stamped everywhere, so he was not happy with me that he had to refund my money and all shipping expenses, but hey you lie you will pay.
JD spindles are made in the USA, well at least the ones on my mower are so tell me how something is made in the same factory when they are not even made in the same country. LOL
Hey look here, $51.00 shipped to your door, now you are not going to beat that price.
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I ate my Goats... hard times....
I thin I am going to Clovis today to get blades, because lightning took out my computer, modem and router and I am going to send it to my only non Texan friend so he can Rehab it. I have no packing so I will have to take it to the UPS store.
It rained again last night and this morning. So once again I am under the gun with the weed control. I need better blades and a bungee cord ASAP.
You could send me your goats, you could take them down the street and have them made into Jerky if you wanted, The meat would last longer.
We used to have 25 goats. They were a PITA. I used them to practice roping. That's right, as kid I was a goat roper. Also a Rodeo cowboy roping calves, and my spurs go Jingle Jangle Jingle. Thanks for your input.
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LOL, he was also an a**hole. I won,t be buying from him. I saw those on ebay you pointed to, and I was going to buy them. But, we had a big storm last night and it took out my Computer, modem and router, and it rained buckets. The weeds are perking up this morning.
I have to drive 60 miles to send my fired computer to a friend in Colorado, who will rebuild it for me. So I am going to pick up the JD blades from the dealer over there. That way I will have them today. When it gets dry enough to mow, I will have these on the mower. I think they will throw the weeds out better than the 3N1 because they are definitely mulching. I don't need to mulch.
Thanks for the input. I would buy them from your link, he has 100% feedback. But they have them in stock 60 miles away and I need to go over to CLovis anyway. After I try them, and if my mower lasts, I will buy them somewhere that has a good price if you buy more sets. And maybe the dealer here will give me a better price.
Right now I don't trust this D130, it isn't made for what I need it for. I want it to last at least 3 years..lol it might if I go slow and cut high. I would hate to stock up on blades only to find my mower isn't going to last..lol
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Thanks, at least I had my old computer for backup. It's not fast but I am online.
I have something over 4 acres to mow. Most of that is at my Mom's place. What I mow here mostly is along the irrigation canal (one side) that leads to my house. It's 700 feet. And I also have to mow the longer (washed out now) dirt road that we use when the ditch road is too wet. Its a ways and pretty rough. I have to mow along both sides of it. It's not really a road. I just had a blade cut it, and isn't wide and the turnouts have blown full of sand. So it's a small creek right now..lol. The weed that I haven't mowed are about 6 feet tall right now. Big fat and juicy too. Not sure what kind of weed they are, my dad always called them careless weeds. They grow super fast and are full of water. We also have another weed he called ironweed. it is tuffer, much tuffer. So since I had to go over everything twice last time, I mowed close to seven or eight acres last week taking in the multiplication. I hope I won't have to mow twice the next time. I shouldn't have too if I get a couple of days soon with no rain..
These blades 3N1's cut okay but they also mulched and that made it harder to spit out. i don't like these mulching blades at all. I wish I had that mower in your sig pic
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Nice. Around here everyone uses a tractor and a brush hog, cept me. I use small mowers..lol
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Well I drove 60 miles to the dealer and got a set of high lift blades. Huge difference in spitting out the clippings!! No more mulching. And these are heavy duty blades for sure. I will be buying them from now on. I have bought off brand for my other mowers and they have never been as heavy as oem's. I fear that the blades are heavier than the mower parts.
I got my mowing at my Mom's place done in 4.5 hours which included pulling some goatheads and putting them in a bucket. My back is killing me. The older I get the less I can sit on one of these without acute pain in my back. But that's part of life I guess. I mowed my place last night in about an hour. The terrain is very rough due to years of drought and high winds. And then the flooding and the erosion it caused. I live on a sandhill. The smaller 42" deck works best for this place. If the mower last a few years I will be happy. It might outlast me..I should be able to sharpen them a few times. They are very thick and heavy. I just wanted to report n. JD high lifts are the way to go IMHO.
) Thanks to all who replied.