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Originally Posted by BENT_8
And thats the issue, These are lawn mowers, not slashers, so if he lets the grass get too long you cant blame the mower because it struggles.
Another thing that you have to remember is that high end Honda industrial 4st equipment is meant to be working hard, letting them sit for a month between cuts and then pulling the cord and running them cold through long grass is not what they are designed for.
Its like a taxi, they regularly get 1million km's from a 4.0l Falcon engine because they rarely get cold and dont go through the heating and cooling cycles that your everyday car does.
We'd start our mowers at 7.30am, run them for a few minutes and they would stay warm all day and do anything upto 25 jobs, everyday, 6 days a week with an oil change fortnightly over beers on a Saturday afternoon.
Quite often a blocking mower chute can come down to something as simple as the direction in which your cutting when in longer grass.
Where possible we would cut the perimeter in an anti clockwise direction so as to pull the cut grass away from the uncut edge and continue going around as the area to be cut got smaller, obviously this is not always possible and so some thought must go into it, if its just too long go over it with a brushcutter and halve it first.
Something that really annoyed me was rocking up to a first cut and having a customer expect you to turn their neglected grass and weeds into a well manicured lawn in one cut, it just isnt possible and despite explaining the process to get it looking neat with regular maintenance and the good intentions of the property owner/occupier, more often than not you'd turn up for your 35meg3 or whatever the price and regularity you'd agreed on was, and get told to return in a fortnight or worse and have to start from scratch again with the same expectations.
Then you'd get the jobs where you'd take less than half a catcher knocking the tops off the same Buffalo lawn every friday afternoon followed by free beers with the fastidious owners that made it all worth while.
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Yep , Even the same to a degree when cutting golf greens . If you missed a cut or two , you knew about it next time .
I only had two Scott Bonnar 65's with 24" cylinder reel to use in my time , now they use the Toro triplex but the quality of cut on a Friday was severely different if they weren't cut on Tuesday afternoon at least for the ladies day on Wednesdays . Usually meant a double cut otherwise whinging members on Sat comp day . All hell broke loose if not cut at all even if the greens were covered in water or you had a break down or sick ..Run for the hills if the pins weren't changed or the tee beds were long . Fairways with Ransomes triple gangs on a wet days was fun too . Not PTO driven , wheel driven .Go 50 metres , get off , unclog , get on , 50 metres , get off , unclog very often .
Ah , those were the days . Paid $7 p.h. for 30 hours that translated almost always to 40 plus hours for same $210 in the mid 1980's. No holiday pay either . Didn't work , no pay . Never happen now .