X500 blade question

[jenkinsph]

I use the standard blades with the x749, these seem to work well enough. Just keep them sharp and you will get a good cut.

This year I am reworking my entire lawn spaces and putting up new fences for the dogs. Will grade the lawn areas again for smoothing and plant by Labor day weekend. This summer any blade will work.

 

[crazyal]

I find the high lift blades work pretty well on the simple collection bagger. The power flow collection systems and the MC519 Deere recommends standard blades. Just so you know. Cutting a little more often will reduce the clumping too.

When I looked all I could find was two blades listed, the mulching blades and the high lift blades. I don't know which one is standard. I mow once a week most of the summer, I just don't have time to do more. There's quite a bit of difference between the two blades (as far as discharge). I have both sets of blades and if I add a bagger, which I most likely will, it'll have some sort of blower on it. It could be the powerflow head that Deere sells or a rear bagger trailer with it's own engine mounted on the trailer tongue. I'm still up in the air about which way to go. A rear bagger trailer with and engine means one more engine to maintain. The X500 is very quiet so having an extra engine running right behind me also is a turn off. But a trailer with it's own blower would give me the option of sucking up leaves out of the flower gardens vs blowing them onto the lawn to suck up.

 

[jenkinsph]

When I looked all I could find was two blades listed, the mulching blades and the high lift blades. I don't know which one is standard. I mow once a week most of the summer, I just don't have time to do more. There's quite a bit of difference between the two blades (as far as discharge). I have both sets of blades and if I add a bagger, which I most likely will, it'll have some sort of blower on it. It could be the powerflow head that Deere sells or a rear bagger trailer with it's own engine mounted on the trailer tongue. I'm still up in the air about which way to go. A rear bagger trailer with and engine means one more engine to maintain. The X500 is very quiet so having an extra engine running right behind me also is a turn off. But a trailer with it's own blower would give me the option of sucking up leaves out of the flower gardens vs blowing them onto the lawn to suck up.

I have standard, mulching and high lift blades for my mowers. JD brand, high lift for the L130. Mulching and standard blades for the x749.

I have used the vacuum hose for flower beds in the past and found it cumbersome. Now I use a Stihl back pack 600 blower and suck them up as you mentioned. That said if your flower beds are shallow (front to back) the hose may work well enough. The ones I worked were more like islands with 20+ feet depths.