Striping! Gotta love it!!

[Nwatson99]

Sorry to hear you have a JD

But happy to hear you do not scalp your yard. I see it all the time people cutting down to the dirt.

3 inches is good for striping thick blade grass.

When people ask why I heal my deck. I give them a little test. Make one pass with the mower going forward then move over a couple feet and make a pass going backwards at the same speed. On most mowers the backwards pass will look better. There have been a few people come on here and ask why their mower cuts better in reverse.

Anti scalp wheels should sit just like you have them.

You can get creative with striping. Like half moons. Does not always have to be a straight line.

Post done pics we like looking at cut grass

LOL
Well I wanted the new Gravely "new air ride seat", but after looking at it the machine was too manual for mowing for me, levers, pins, etc to set everything vs. the JD everything is right at your finger tips more or less without moving your arm from the arm rest.
My back injury is dictating most of my life now, my weed-eaters are all modified where I lay the head on the ground while keeping my back straight just to weed-eat, heck I had to purchase a self drive push mower just to mow what very little I have to mow using it around the pond edge since my mower is too heavy to get within 2 feet of my pond, my Z930 comes in over a ton with me on it, weight sticker is 1946lb on the machine and I am 220.

 

[Carscw]

LOL Well I wanted the new Gravely "new air ride seat", but after looking at it the machine was too manual for mowing for me, levers, pins, etc to set everything vs. the JD everything is right at your finger tips more or less without moving your arm from the arm rest. My back injury is dictating most of my life now, my weed-eaters are all modified where I lay the head on the ground while keeping my back straight just to weed-eat, heck I had to purchase a self drive push mower just to mow what very little I have to mow using it around the pond edge since my mower is too heavy to get within 2 feet of my pond, my Z930 comes in over a ton with me on it, weight sticker is 1946lb on the machine and I am 220.

The 930 is a nice machine. Don't want to get it stuck.

 

[djdicetn]

LOL
Well I wanted the new Gravely "new air ride seat", but after looking at it the machine was too manual for mowing for me, levers, pins, etc to set everything vs. the JD everything is right at your finger tips more or less without moving your arm from the arm rest.
My back injury is dictating most of my life now, my weed-eaters are all modified where I lay the head on the ground while keeping my back straight just to weed-eat, heck I had to purchase a self drive push mower just to mow what very little I have to mow using it around the pond edge since my mower is too heavy to get within 2 feet of my pond, my Z930 comes in over a ton with me on it, weight sticker is 1946lb on the machine and I am 220.

I answered your questions in your message best I could. All I can add is that at > $14k MSRP for that JD Z960R MOD you ordered, I would have purchased the Gravely Pro-Turn 400 XDZ(Model#99235) with the Kawasaki FX921V engine and ZT-5400 trasnnies and put the extra $2K in my pocket!!! I believe you would have found the new air ride system to be a comfortable ride.

 

[Nwatson99]

I answered your questions in your message best I could. All I can add is that at > $14k MSRP for that JD Z960R MOD you ordered, I would have purchased the Gravely Pro-Turn 400 XDZ(Model#99235) with the Kawasaki FX921V engine and ZT-5400 trasnnies and put the extra $2K in my pocket!!! I believe you would have found the new air ride system to be a comfortable ride.

Oh the 2K is in my pocket, there was one dealer in 50 mile radius that quoted over 14K he was using the JD quoting manual, but rest assured that is not what I purchased it for.
The Gravely 400 is the one I tested and looked at, but like I said too manual for me. The JD has all the controls at my finger tips right there from the chair with the effort of moving my hand over to the controls.

 

[BHLC]

Finally got a chance to quickly mow my front yard tonight. Need to get the fertilizer down next.

 

[exotion]

The second pic I don't like to much striping with the angle. Striping looks nice if you cross the lines and make nice little squares or two different but equal angles.

 

[BHLC]

The second pic I don't like to much striping with the angle. Striping looks nice if you cross the lines and make nice little squares or two different but equal angles.

Customer lawns I agree, my lawn I don't care! It's a hill the whole way down! Had to double cut because it was so long and thick! Also we have a first communion and baptism tomorrow and wife didn't want the clippings left. Had to go around after with the bagger to pick them up.

 

[Carscw]

When I have to double cut I cut then second time I add some stripes. Kinda like fake striping.

 

[Carscw]

I tried to stripe it but this is the best the old snapper would do cutting it twice.
Good thing is even in 3rd gear she never bogged down.

 

[Lawnboy18]

I tried to stripe it but this is the best the old snapper would do cutting it twice.
Good thing is even in 3rd gear she never bogged down.

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You sure dig out some nasty lots! Nice job tho!