JD X580

johnorlandi

Active Member
Hey guys need a little help

I have a 2023 JD X580 with 48” deck and the Power Flow system for picking up grass/leaves. It had a built in mulcher that I was not happy with and to me it did work good but it made the discharge opening smaller so when I used the power flow system it did not pick up all, so the dealer took it off and put JD high lift blades. , I cut grass at 2 ½” now and later in the year go to 3”

My problem is it only picks up the grass and not small twigs or pine cones. (Had to buy a cyclone rake)

Does anyone know of supper good high lift blades????

Before this I had a 1995 Agco Allis 918H with 48” mower and a vacuum that ran off the power take off and when I cut the grass it cleaned everything. I miss that tractor I had thousands of hours on it, I rebuilt the engine at about 1500 hours and probably had another 1500 hours or more. It just wore out needed a lot of parts and work, what a mistake should have fixed it
 
The first thing I can say is that a mulch kit does not work with hi-lift blades. The mulch kit delays the clipping from being discharged immediately so they can be cut up into finer pieces. High lift blades are intended for sucking up the clippings to send them to a bagger setup.
 
New machines are trash compared to what you had. Never seen any Deere bag anything worth remembering about.
 
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