R1000 Grass catcher stays empty

[Cheapoldfart]

The blade/deck combo was working fine until I sharpened the blade. Seems to me that just sharpening the blade shouldn’t have an effect on the way the cut grass/leaves flow under the deck.

$30 bucks on a new blade is pretty steep if I don’t know if it will fix the problem.

I’m not trying to be obstinate— I’m just trying to figure out what the issue is before throwing money at it.

 

[slomo]

Would guess at the R1000 "Terminator" Mower was built to sling instead of bag.

Don't know the type of blades you have on it now. Some blades are for bagging and some for slinging, high lift and low lift. Your deck looks like a low lift design to me. You definitely want high lift blades if you are bagging. They will eat more fuel so be aware of that.

 

[Its Me]

Cheapoldfart, if you say that nothing has been changed and shape blades now causes it not to bag, I have two mowers that I bag with, course one is a Scag with the Squarrel blower on the end of the deck, very strong suction and an old toro rear engine rider with the easy empty catcher, the key to getting the toro to pick up leaves and grass it the deck clean, blade on right, a high lift blade and most important is the engine RPM run it at least 3,200 RPM, hope this helps, Joe​

 

[Honest Abe]

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