jpollman
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Hi folks!
I'm on my second season with my Gravely ZT-52HD. I bought the mulch kit for it and it worked fine last season. In the fall, I bought a set of Gator blades and it did a wonderful job mulching up the leaves in the yard. This season though, I'm having a problem with the deck not cutting cleanly. It is leaving a stripe of poorly cut grass that appears to line up with where the center and right hand blades cut. I've kept the blades sharp and one of them appeared to MAYBE be a little bent but it probably wasn't. Just in case, I bought a brand new set of mulching blades at my local Gravely dealer a couple weeks ago. Even brand new, I took a fine file and touched them up and made sure that they were good and sharp. It's still doing it!
I went through the procedure to level the deck side to side and set it to specs for front to back. It's still doing it! I bought a mower jack and raised up the front and climbed around underneath and there are NO signs of any blockages and the blades are all lined up and everything appears to be in order. I'm completely stumped!
My next plan of attack is to remove the mulching baffles and put the original blades back on it and cut the grass in discharge mode and see what happens.
Has anyone else had an issue like this and figured out what the problem was?
Thanks in advance for any input!
I'm on my second season with my Gravely ZT-52HD. I bought the mulch kit for it and it worked fine last season. In the fall, I bought a set of Gator blades and it did a wonderful job mulching up the leaves in the yard. This season though, I'm having a problem with the deck not cutting cleanly. It is leaving a stripe of poorly cut grass that appears to line up with where the center and right hand blades cut. I've kept the blades sharp and one of them appeared to MAYBE be a little bent but it probably wasn't. Just in case, I bought a brand new set of mulching blades at my local Gravely dealer a couple weeks ago. Even brand new, I took a fine file and touched them up and made sure that they were good and sharp. It's still doing it!
I went through the procedure to level the deck side to side and set it to specs for front to back. It's still doing it! I bought a mower jack and raised up the front and climbed around underneath and there are NO signs of any blockages and the blades are all lined up and everything appears to be in order. I'm completely stumped!
My next plan of attack is to remove the mulching baffles and put the original blades back on it and cut the grass in discharge mode and see what happens.
Has anyone else had an issue like this and figured out what the problem was?
Thanks in advance for any input!