bushhog height

[RoyJackson]

Measure your blades. Length, width, thickness, and hole diameter.

Then just browse online for similar blades with more offset. Perhaps someone replaced your blades with ones that don't offset as much.

Pictures would also help.

When you set the cutter on level concrete pad, unhooked from the tractor, what is the height of the blades?

Also, 3" is too low for a rotary cutter, and borderline too low for even a finish mower.

He should be able to cut as low as 4", I would think. That's the minimum height for my Bush Bull cutter.

Per tractornewby's post:

...the grass height is about 8" tall

That's pretty high...I have a hard time believing his tail wheel is positioned for the lowest cut.

 

[LD1]

That's pretty high...I have a hard time believing his tail wheel is positioned for the lowest cut.

Yea, the tailwheel too. That in combination if someone changed blades....

Hard to diagnose the issue without seeing a picture of the cutter. Either a shot from underneath, or a shot of it sitting level on a concrete pad...

Either way, 3" is still too low to try to cut with a rotary cutter. You would constantly be in the dirt, hitting rocks, and have to go SUPER slow as a result. And the resulting finish would likely kill all the grass anyway.

Should be cutting overgrown grass in the 6-8" range, then hit it at the highest setting a finish mower will go (usually 5") in a week or so if trying to reclaim a yard. Then slowly work down.

But 3" with a RC is bad news.

 

[Gary Fowler]

When I set my zero turn at 3", the measurement on a concrete slab looks good, but if I mow with it, it is almost scalping the ground and I get mostly brown carpet exposed. I suppose this is due to the mower wheels sinking into the grass carpet. 4" makes a pretty good cut and leaves mostly green grass showing except where I run over a hilly area or dip into a sunken area. I would think that a bush hog would shred the tops of the grass really bad at 4" and really damage the grass not to mention the side runners digging into the ground all the time. I set my BH where the runners are about an inch above the ground and it works well for most of the time but even then it might dig into the ground in high spots. None of my land is perfectly level and has dips and high spots all over so it is a compromise as to mowing without too much damage from digging in versus cutting the pasture weeds and grass evenly.

 

[EddieWalker]

I'm also wondering about the height of the tail wheel. When I cut, I have the top link loose and I have the deck level to the ground. I have to unbolt my tail wheel and then bolt it back together in the different holes to change the height of the deck.

Eddie

 

[RalphVa]

My new Frontier cutter is leaving more trenches with the slides than the LX-4 did.

Ralph

 

[RoyJackson]

My new Frontier cutter is leaving more trenches with the slides than the LX-4 did.

Ralph

I had that problem too. If the ground is uneven, there's not too much one can do about it. Setting the position lock on the rock shaft (3PH) lever can help, but probably won't eliminate all of the gouging.
My field is uneven, and even with my cutter settings (tail wheel) and locking the rock shaft lever, I still make ruts sometimes...