I have a King Kutter 6 ft cutter and when it cuts it discharges a heavy wind row of grass to one side out the back. Would cutting the side beams at an angle towards the front eliminate or reduce the volume being left in a single row? Bascially cut them on a 45 degree angle going forward instead of straight down. This would open up the back by about 2 or so more feet instead of the 3 foot that is there now.
Rotary Cutter discharge wind rows
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sweettractors
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Have you tried raising the rear part of the cutter more with the toplink being made shorter? Ken Sweet
Actually I have the trailing wheel udown as high as possible, cutting grass at 8 inch level, and do not use the toplink as the ground in SW Mo has been harvested of timber years ago with holes throughout the field. At first used toplink and at times when you go down the stump hole and up the front of mower would snag the ground and rear the mower up into the air. Have several terraces to mow over and same thing happens on them or going down hills at the bottom. Real mess here and not like it was in central Kansas. Thanks for the answer anyway.
sweettractors
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You will help your situation a lot by getting the rear part of the cutter 3-4-5 inches higher than the front. Ken Sweet
I will try that. At this point in time in our area we are basically dead. No rain in 5 weeks and temps have been over 90 just about every day and the last three have been over 100. We got ten inches in 4 days back in May and we had dust in 4 days. So much rock the water just runs through the soil. Karst soil. Thanks and will try.
Snaker
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I have a 5' KK and find that the tail wheel acts like a backstop and causes the windrow. I can put up with the windrow if it keeps crap from flying a long distance. A lot of folks here install rear chain guards. I wonder if that would help spread things out?
Mistyridgefarm
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Also make sure you are level side to side. That being said, my woods does it a little of the left side. Blade turn counter clockwise so the left side is the first place the material can fall out. On wide single spindles, angling the back up too much makes it cut deeper in the middle and you can see the scallops in the finished cut.
On mine, it does it worse when I drop the front below the back. Level or just slightly down in the front spreads the best for me. Keep experimenting till you find the best for you. Oh, my woods has no chains front or rear.
On mine, it does it worse when I drop the front below the back. Level or just slightly down in the front spreads the best for me. Keep experimenting till you find the best for you. Oh, my woods has no chains front or rear.
Thanks for all that. Makes perfect sense and I do try to level it. I am sure some of my problems stem from cutting the grass when it is too high. But I have seen other mowers do a better job of spreading the grass out. The KK has steel channel down the sides and it comes back to the rear to minimize throughout, but as you said it spins in the direction and then out in a row about a foot wide and 3 inches deep. That is why I am contemplating cutting the rear part of the sides at a 45 degree angle to see if it will disperse it out a little more evenly. I have noticed some of the brands of mowers have a piece of metal(removeable) around the back of the mower that stops shy of a inch or so from the bottom. Maybe that would create a mulching effect? Back to first part, in SW MO there is no level ground on my place. Even so I set it up on a slab in front of my shop.