Hi Guys,
I have here what is basically a new 18hp rover rancher .... Huge single deck, the last aussie made one. It's a few years old, however it would only have done 30hours work from new (if that). The issue is ............... It just doesn't cut grass. No matter what you do, no matter how often you replace the still new looking blades, with another new set. It seems to just "bend" the grass over and hack it up a bit. It doesn't matter if the grass is so long and thick, it's higher than the mower when your cutting it, or short and already immaculate..... It makes a mess of it. I finally had a gut full of it .... I've put off pulling the cutter deck off .... simply due to the fact it's a basically unused $4500 mower ..... why in the $#@# doesn't it cut grass
I'd been knocking down blackberies and cleaning up the chest high grass around the sheds with this ... and old victa push mower ... I found every piece of metal, every rock, every brick ........... Basically I hammered the sh!t out of it's blades (I'm lucky it didn't throw a blade). So imagine my frustration when I wheeled it back across the paddock into the shed and found it was cutting the grass about 1000times better than the new mower with new blades.... AAAARrrrhhhhhh....
The back of the mower deck ....
the front ... that's the blade hanging below the level of the deck by about 2inches
rovers back edge.
front edge ... yes it appears the blade are below the level of the deck. So the grass must first be bent completelly over, then stand back up in order to be cut.
It gets better though. That's the back edge of the angled blades. So the cutter deck bends the grass over flat before the blades get to it, then the back edge of the angled blade beat the grass down flat before the cutting edge can get to them. Why in the hell would you design a cutter deck like this ..... It's a "grass bending over" deck, not a cutting deck.
I think the fix is to cut an inch out of the front of the cutter deck What do you guys think ?
seeya,
Shane L.
I have here what is basically a new 18hp rover rancher .... Huge single deck, the last aussie made one. It's a few years old, however it would only have done 30hours work from new (if that). The issue is ............... It just doesn't cut grass. No matter what you do, no matter how often you replace the still new looking blades, with another new set. It seems to just "bend" the grass over and hack it up a bit. It doesn't matter if the grass is so long and thick, it's higher than the mower when your cutting it, or short and already immaculate..... It makes a mess of it. I finally had a gut full of it .... I've put off pulling the cutter deck off .... simply due to the fact it's a basically unused $4500 mower ..... why in the $#@# doesn't it cut grass
I'd been knocking down blackberies and cleaning up the chest high grass around the sheds with this ... and old victa push mower ... I found every piece of metal, every rock, every brick ........... Basically I hammered the sh!t out of it's blades (I'm lucky it didn't throw a blade). So imagine my frustration when I wheeled it back across the paddock into the shed and found it was cutting the grass about 1000times better than the new mower with new blades.... AAAARrrrhhhhhh....
The back of the mower deck ....
the front ... that's the blade hanging below the level of the deck by about 2inches
rovers back edge.
front edge ... yes it appears the blade are below the level of the deck. So the grass must first be bent completelly over, then stand back up in order to be cut.
It gets better though. That's the back edge of the angled blades. So the cutter deck bends the grass over flat before the blades get to it, then the back edge of the angled blade beat the grass down flat before the cutting edge can get to them. Why in the hell would you design a cutter deck like this ..... It's a "grass bending over" deck, not a cutting deck.
I think the fix is to cut an inch out of the front of the cutter deck
What do you guys think ?seeya,
Shane L.
