Mowing Bx belly mower guard

[RaydaKub]

...also took off the pulley guards on top of the deck...they just gathered clippings under them anyway...

I bet the grass still accumulates around the pulleys with the guards off. I bet they designed and put them on the mower for a very good reason though.

 

[moriboy]

I'm just going to cut mine back about 4 or 5 inches...

 

[Mowbizz]

I bet the grass still accumulates around the pulleys with the guards off. I bet they designed and put them on the mower for a very good reason though.

Yes, some grass still accumulates there but at least I can SEE it and when the mower is off , I can clear the clippings with a lot less effort than undoing the guards every time...I imagine the purpose of the guards is to keep "loose things" whatever they may be, off of the spinning pulleys so nothing gets sucked into the spindles.

 

[dodge man]

Yes, some grass still accumulates there but at least I can SEE it and when the mower is off , I can clear the clippings with a lot less effort than undoing the guards every time...I imagine the purpose of the guards is to keep "loose things" whatever they may be, off of the spinning pulleys so nothing gets sucked into the spindles.

Yes, like your fingers.

 

[RaydaKub]

Yes, like your fingers.

I was gonna say "feet" just because of the proximity, but I like your answer better.

 

[oldballs]

Sometimes when I mow some overgrown fields of the neighbors, I tie it up. But on a windy dry day, the debris blows in my face and all over the machine. Generally I mow with the chute guard down. It is flexible enough that it bends when close to a tree stump. One time, mowing along an embankment, a hunk of tree root was shot 60 feet thru the storm window of my house, even with the chute down.

 

[xtruckerbob]

I have the guard still on our BX 2670 and after 31 years the guard is still on the old G3200 as well as the covers for the pulleys which I still use weekly to mow the area you would not want to put a new mower. I have a rope and raise the guard in tall grass only to keep it from balling up and only when I mow away from the house and road. I hate the way the guard windrows the tall grass. We also have a Komander ZTR series has a much better guard which lay the grass out much better. Wished the BX had it.

 

[sandyc]

I took the spring off and use a bunji (sp?) cord to keep it up when I mow in the fields. Other than that I keep the chute down to avoid damage to cars/people/things.

 

[Mowbizz]

Yes, like your fingers.

if anyone is stupid enough to put their fingers near a spinning belt/pulley maybe they deserve to lose a couple...I clean mine with a backpack blower...no digits endangered!

 

[radioman]

I use a bungie cord to hold it up. When kids are outside or Im near the road. I let it down. simple as that. I used to leave it down all the time, but the tall grass clumps up too much and I keep hitting things with plastic chute. I really dont want to buy a new one just becuase I hit something the wrong way and i cant use it anymore till new one comes in - so bungee cord it is.