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[IrTxRx]

<font color="blue"> have a PT-180 with a 45" brush cutter and it works so well I no longer plan on getting a finishing mower. I lowered the deck to the lowest settings </font>

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Did you change the spindles?

 

[dturnmire]

The only modification I did was lower the deck. Unless someone is super particular about their lawn I don't believe they would be able to tell much difference between a finishing mower cut and the bush hog cut I have on my PT.

I have plans on getting a few more attachments in the next three months or so and the finishing deck was one of them. I believe it would be a waste of money for me any how.

The main reason I got the Power Trac was for bush hogging. I had torn up three riding mowers (mainly the flimsy decks) trying to clear parts of my land they weren't designed for.

 

[MuncyBob]

MY 422 has been put through a few projects...lots of grass cutting(apprx 2 acres near the house and another 2.5+ of pasture)....the pasture was so high that the grass was heavy in the front of the PT and in the motor wells....next time I'll use the Farmall/belly mower if it gets that high again. Rain washed out part if our lane...so on went the bucket and I smoothed out the lane and repaired the "drainage ditches". Used the bucket also to strip out the 3 horse stalls and replace with fresh sawdust...got a little too close to the stall boards and tore one off!(had to use the hammer to fix that, couldn't figure out how to do it with the PT /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif)Still experimenting with the blade height for finish mowing around the house...next to lowest setting was def. too short, will try the next highest this week. I can say I no longer put off grass cutting..now I need good noise cancellation headphones to listen to the ballgame while mowing!

 

[FOURTEEN]

"" Still experimenting with the blade height for finish mowing ""


Most experts recommend 3".

I cut my lawn once with my PT-425 Brush Mower set at 3". It cut and looked good, except that the grass is just cut at the base - not mulched.

Blade MUST be very sharp! Blade speed is slow.

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[smartguyz]

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"" Still experimenting with the blade height for finish mowing ""


Most experts recommend 3".

I cut my lawn once with my PT-425 Brush Mower set at 3". It cut and looked good, except that the grass is just cut at the base - not mulched.

Blade MUST be very sharp! Blade speed is slow.

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Fourteen is right. The blade-tip speed of the finish mower is much faster than the brush-hog. This results in the finish mower giving a terrific mulching cut, whereas the field mower tends to leave stuff all over the place. However, the field mower is 'unstoppable', as MossRoad likes to say. If you didn't care to mulch the lawn, and wanted something pretty versatile to clean up fields and such, the brush-hog would be my choice. If you mostly do finish mowing with the occasional medium-duty use (e.g. whacking weeds, NOT small shrubs, etc.) then I would get the finish mower. I have both, and use them accordingly.

Sincerely,

Rob /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

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"" I have both, and use them accordingly. ""


Exactly!! It all comes down to what YOU want for YOUR property!

Notice that I said I used the PT-425 Brush Mower on my lawn once. I have a 1976 Power King which, after removing the front blade, ag tires, and wheel weights, then installing the 48" mower deck and turf tires, is my weapon of choice for my lawn. It has 3 blades and a full width set of rear rollers, which produce a nice smooth cut. I don't know what the speed is, but it must have a very high tip speed because it sounds like a jet helicopter taking off when I engage the electric clutch to drive the blades!!
I love it, especially in the Fall, when it absolutely atomizes the leaves!! Although I live in a 10 acre forest, I do not own a leaf rake!!

I used the Power King for chewing trails through the woods, but broken spindles convinced me that the Power Trac Brush Mower was better suited for that job!! Now the Power King does the lawn better, while the Power Trac does the trails better!!

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