Buying Advice Buying Finishing Mower

[kyles974]

Interesting. ...I never paid attention to the discharge. Like I mentioned. .I have a woods rm550 finish mower with S D.
I read alot up on the rear discharge.
Guess I always that when I saw a rear discharge at glance....it was a "brush hog".

My worries are only in summer I work 7 days 15-17hr days....so I get behind mowing at times. Searched YouTube but couldn't find any good videos showing how a rear discharge does with longer grass.
I sometimes have to go over areas 2-4 times to make lawn look good because of letting it get long.
I wonder how the rear discharge does in these conditions?
Maybe only have to go over twice im guessing? ?

Again....not trying to high jack thread. Just that its a current topic on subject and feel one in future could benefit.

 

[cletus99]

Interesting. ...I never paid attention to the discharge. Like I mentioned. .I have a woods rm550 finish mower with S D.
I read alot up on the rear discharge.
Guess I always that when I saw a rear discharge at glance....it was a "brush hog".

My worries are only in summer I work 7 days 15-17hr days....so I get behind mowing at times. Searched YouTube but couldn't find any good videos showing how a rear discharge does with longer grass.
I sometimes have to go over areas 2-4 times to make lawn look good because of letting it get long.
I wonder how the rear discharge does in these conditions?
Maybe only have to go over twice im guessing? ?

Again....not trying to high jack thread. Just that its a current topic on subject and feel one in future could benefit.

My understand is that a rear discharge finish mower does better all around, especially in taller grass because you're not running over already cut grass. It leaves less of a pile up of cut grass. I believe rear discharge finish mowers are becoming the new standard.

 

[paulfun9]

My understand is that a rear discharge finish mower does better all around, especially in taller grass because you're not running over already cut grass. It leaves less of a pile up of cut grass. I believe rear discharge finish mowers are becoming the new standard.

Based on my first time cutting with a rear discharge finish mower, I would have to agree with this statement. I would also say it is able to discharge the tall grass more efficiently letting you carry a higher ground speed rather than worry about clogging and bogging down. I am the classic procrastinator when it comes to cutting the grass and got to my yard late again this year.. It definitely cut my cut time down and didn't leave big windrows or have to go back and cut it again. Out back where I missed the last two cuttings before the winter set in I still had waist high weeds and such sticking up and it took them out with one pass not leaving them laid over like all my side discharge mowers would do.

 

[Will_C]

I have a ZTR that I do the bulk of my mowing with-but I have 9 acres that I maintain (I plan to build on next year.) That piece sometimes goes 2 weeks without mowing-that is where the rear discharge shines-it spreads the clippings well, and does not struggle when the grass gets 5-6" tall.

I actually only mow 5 acres there regularly-the other 4 acres gets bush hogged Memorial Day, and then I mow it every 2-3 weeks with the RFM-again, it does a great job on the growth.

The rear discharge won't give the clean, striped, look of my ZTR, but I sure would not be without it.

Will