clumps of clippings everywhere - no suction

[navyveteran]

The mower is about 2 years old, no complaints, just a mild blip in the radar,for the first 2 1/2 months of last season the suction was working and picking up the clippings

then all of a sudden it STOPPED and it hasn't worked since and so far i have mowed my lawn 4x already and the bag has yet to work, i haven't hit anything,i'm the

ONLY one who uses it, my wife takes care of the flowers, does a pretty good job to...LOL - i also just went out and bought a brand new blade yesterday , is there

anything i'm doing wrong, is there something simple i can do to get the bag to work again ,because the clippings all over the lawn when i'm finished is awful looking, i

hope this helps, thank you in advance, i appreciate it....:cool:

 

[mistermowerman]

The mower is about 2 years old, no complaints, just a mild blip in the radar,for the first 2 1/2 months of last season the suction was working and picking up the clippings

then all of a sudden it STOPPED and it hasn't worked since and so far i have mowed my lawn 4x already and the bag has yet to work, i haven't hit anything,i'm the

ONLY one who uses it, my wife takes care of the flowers, does a pretty good job to...LOL - i also just went out and bought a brand new blade yesterday , is there

anything i'm doing wrong, is there something simple i can do to get the bag to work again ,because the clippings all over the lawn when i'm finished is awful looking, i

hope this helps, thank you in advance, i appreciate it....:cool:

The main thing to look at is how clean the fabric is ,if it is solid with grass sap it stops the grass from lifting into the bag ,also make sure you put your blade back on the right way up . Gary :smile:

 

[navyveteran]

What do you mean by " how clean the fabric " is ?

 

[Carscw]

What do you mean by " how clean the fabric " is ?

Is the bag covered in grass.
The bag has to be able to breathe

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[motoman]

My rider is a 3 bagger (solid containers) . It has a screen out let for ?pressure? relief at the top of the tube (perhaps similar to the bag porosity)? When I get a trail of clippings it is from plugging of uptake tube (damp or wet grass), or plugging of deck outlet to tube due to damp grass/heavy weeds/branches, or backup down the tube from full container. If you have "winged" blade(s) they are not upside down somehow?

 

[navyveteran]

The outside of the bag is spotless ,no clippings whatsoever although the under side of it is caked with grass from prior mowing i will clean that up today before I mow it next thank you so much folks for your quick replies I do appreciate it immensely , God bless , I'm sure I'll be back with other questions I'm a pretty particular guy with my power equipment and other things I own.