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I'm just irritated that my catch bag doesn't fill with either of the two blades I already own.

Hahahhahaha Same here old man!!!

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I concur. Nice informative vid. No annoying music. Your Chauffeur J Bruce, Hollywood North

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Hey, I just purchased a Scag 48", it's on the way, hope I chose well. I purchased their Hurricane mulch kit but I was curious if I could have just installed mulching blades and the discharge blocking plate. I was curious about your setup, information is limited for me. Appreciate the feedback.

@@vicientedeloach2246 You'll be dead and the Scag will still be running. Did a full tune-up on my uncle's old belt drive walk behind Scag 36" a couple years ago, its from 1989. New belts, blades, carburetor, oil, fuel, spark plug, a new idler pulley for the transmission, and it was running like new again. Still striping lawns with no effort. Got the tune up done, and took it out the next day and cut a yard that was severely overgrown with 3 foot tall grass/weeds, one pass and it was all knocked down...no 2nd pass needed. Not bad for a 30+ year old mower.

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My high lift blades out performed the Oregon G6 Gator Blades on my 2020 Kubota z725 hands down!

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The G6 blades are slightly heavier duty than the G5's, no real need to get the G6 blades. I have a set of both and can't tell any difference between the 2 on my lawn tractor. Both do an equally good job of mulching. I started using them about 4 years ago and have never gone back to the factory high lift blades on my lawn tractor, I see no need. The G5 and G6 blades do a great job of blowing the grass out from under and away from the mower deck when I'm not mulching. I have the mulch plug on my lawn tractor, with the G5 or G6 blades and mulch plug the leaves just disappear. I also run a G5 blade on my 21" push mower, same results, does great in both mulching and side discharge modes, I really haven't tried the bagger with the mulching blade on the push mower...I don't have a bagger for the lawn tractor, and don't really see any use for one since the mulching blades do a great job.

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I thought it was very useful but not sure what the lift is used for exactly. High lift vs low lift?

@@christophermoore5190 I'm pretty sure it's how hard it pulls the blades of grass up with vacuum to cut them evenly

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Thanks for sharing

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Don't mow wet grass.

@@dwanpyrtle3134 sometimes you have too. Plus grass is 90 percent water.

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Gator Blades are GARBAGE when it comes to mowing grass. They are generally made of thicker metal for mowing over branches, etc... but for plain grass mowing, they are easily eclipsed by plain high lift blades. I bought a set, and took them off after one day.

@@n2omike good to know. I have plenty of hp for mowing pasture and lawn. Let the horses on a couple acres at a time, then when I move them I like to mow it a 4in and let it grow for a few weeks before moving them back into it. I also like to mow into the woods but I have to take big John deere with the rake on and maneuver the trees to try and get all the sticks. If I put those gators on the old tractor I can just use that for the woods then and keep my big cub for the real stuff. 25hp Kohler pro motor, zforce S with the 54in fabricated deck. Cuts amazing and at around 8mph, but it is doing 9 to 10 acres a week. I generally use my big John deere for snow but I have chains and a plow and it works really good in the snow. I do better in the snow with that zero turn with the steering wheel than I would a conventional tractor because the motor is in the rear.

If you have a three blade deck design... the real deal is that your discharge blade is a Gator blade... you want the other two blades to be high lift blades to keep your deck clean actually... your discharge is mulched up some but you can still stripe a lawn quite well... we pro’s have been running this setup for years with great success...😂😂😂

I just put Gator blades on my mower and I think they did a terrible job. I got tons of clippings and the lawn wasn't smoothly cut. Looked like it was 2 days after a cut. It's like I would have to go over it twice to get the same results I got from my old blades.

I had to go with a low lift blade 1 acre of sandy yard destroys blades in no time.

I run the Gator blades as well, I mulch most of the time here in southwest Idaho. The OEM blades on my lawn tractor are fine, just standard high lift blades, but started mulching, and got my first set of Gator blades and haven't used anything else the past 4 years. I have G5 and G6 blades, the G6 blades are slightly heavier duty than the G5 that's the only difference with those. I can't see the need to run my high lift blades anymore, the G5 and G6 blades do a great job of getting the grass clippings out of the deck when I'm not mulching so I don't see using the high lift blades for my needs anymore. I got into mulching because I got tired of dealing with raking leaves. Since switching to the Gator blades I haven't needed a rake. The Gator mulching blades just make leaves disappear. They do great for that, and they do great for general mulching duties during the rest of the cutting season.

Gator blades are all I use since 2012 on my John Deere X749 with 62" Deck mowing 1.6 acres sometimes 2X a week.

I just find you can't use the gator blade if you let the grass grow more than an inch. My customers who over fertlize force me the change my blade out because they bog down so easily.

New to riding lawnmowers, recently moved rural. I have a 09 lt4000 42" craftsman and a 04 gt5000 48" craftsman the prior owners left behind. The 09 runs fine, had to do some maintenance on the 04 to get it going as it hadn't ran in over 10 years. Now it's purring. The gt has the bagger system, I keep as much clippings as possible for compost, I mow about 3.5 acres. Question is: because I use the bagger, what lift size blades is most optimal for this type of mowing? Thanks for any input.

Yes They were the best. Have not seen one for many years.

Very nice

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Sounds like you should try making a video yourself

@@supergrowler521 you do realize I was complimenting him, right?

@@billmalec I certainly do. As I was you; which you maybe don’t realise. You just hit the nail with your critique, summing up what the better vids should be like for max comprehension.

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I do not recommend gator blades for rye grass. Rye too wet of a grass and will cake up on the deck. We always ran the high lift blades for rye grass and gator blades for everything else.

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Was he recording while on a treadmill? 🤔😤

Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment. Becoming more hands on and DIY is almost a must in this day and age. Small engine repair has a real hard time keeping or even finding skilled techs.

Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment. I greatly appreciate it. Ya when they work they are a great option.

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Where did you find them. I have to sharpen every other mow.

@@royalway12 i found them on ebay and they were for a john deere tractor/mower, cant remember who had them though

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I will have to look for them. Thank you for sharing.

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Very true. Not all grass is the same either. Glad we have some options though. Just a challenge figuring out the right ones at times.

I will try and put something together. With everything so dry here it may be next spring. Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment. I greatly appreciate it.

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What type of blade were you using if you don't mind me asking? The mowing crew I'm running has been having an issue with too much spring rain so constantly wet yards and it's causing horrible efficiency. I'm trying everything to help my guys not have to double and triple cut quite a few lawns. Just makes for a long day for the guys and I feel bad asking them to do 12-14hr days when they were hired on for 10's. Ooo another question if your sharpening your own baldes where you using a hollow grind or a convex if that makes sense? I'ma definitely try to do a double edge tomorrow when I sharpen them! Great info!

@@RailithicEmporthus It was standard High lift blades. You know those that are sharp in the front and in the back. For sharpening I just used a angle grinder with a lamel pad of 80 grit for the speed of it. No point to make it perfect but robust since the blades meet a lot of stone and other kling dongs...just remember to balance the blades and tell your guys not to drive to fast. I have seen it many times with a front mowing deck people forget to slow down in turns and therefore increase the speed of the deck to go faster than actual possible cutting speed. You can only go so fast it takes time for the deck to process the grass.