Mark, You are right ZTR's aren't the problem. It the mind set that all my neighbors who own ZTR's have. They think they have to scalp their grass. All their yards look like this. This guy is a back and forth mower putting the clippings in a wind row. The dead grass you see has been there for weeks. He even mowed the clipping twice trying to make them go away. None of my neighbors bag, they just scalp. Run the blades in the dirt. Blades will dull faster. All their yards look all the same, like crap.
One evening I watched my daugher mow with my 48 inch rider. It was late, almost dark. The ground was dry. I have always cut my lawn at 3 inches or as high as the mower will go. That night I saw sparks coming off the mower blades. Blades were sucking up the sand and sand blasting the blades. It's no wonder blades dull faster when you are cutting 1 inch.
Some day I'll get someone to turn my pto while I count the revolutions of my blades. I run my 540 pto closer to 650 rpm. I'll bet the tip velocity of my 2 ft blades comes close to or exceeds any ZTR on the market, around 200 mph. The clippings that come out of my RM660 easily go 8 ft, if not more. I keep chopping the clipping up and there isn't much left when I'm done. If there is, I'll let the hay dry a day and pick up with my 48 inch husqvarna.
My post is about yesterdays tractors and I think yesterdays mowers are the best.
If you think your mower does a better job, please post a pic 3 days after you mow. You can see the problem that my neighbors, who use lawn mowers and ZTR have 3 days after they mow. Their fat front wheels bend the grass over, mower doesn't pick grass up, so 3 days later, usually after a rain too, the bent over grass stands up and you see its taller than the grass that was cut. Perhaps that's why my neighbors scalp their grass.
I still love my old tractors and so does my broken back. All my neighbors tell me how much their ZTR's hurt them, but they still use them. george
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