Mowing Mower setup/assembly

[RaydaKub]

Hope you fellas don't mind my starting so many new threads. I just keep finding things I think are odd or not quite up to par.

Every mower I have ever owned before, the skirt extended down an inch or two below the blades. It appears on my MMM that the blades are almost dead even with the bottom of the skirt. This seems like a poor design to me. Why have all that head room above the blades? I mean you can't hardly clog these things up, but if the skirt catches any dirt at all (pocket gopher mound) the blade is in it immediately too. I've got a narrow ridge in my lawn and am finding that the scalp wheels don't prevent scalping because the ridge hits right in the middle of the deck. The roller in the center appears to be just about worthless because it is actually higher than the edge of the skirt.

Or did the previous owner overhaul this thing and leave out a spacer on each shaft that would have kept the blades up out of the dirt?

 

[aczlan]

That is normal for the B/BX decks and the commercial zero turn (Exmark/Husky/Deere) decks I have worked on.
On the scalp roller, I would check that it is adjusted per the book. Our BX says to have it ~1/4" above the ground when at mowing height.

Aaron Z