Mower for Tall Grass

[flyrad10]

My old Craptsmen stalls  in high grass due to blade getting stuck against deck with clippings. It is set up for bagging and the side port is closed but I don’t know if it is wearing a mulching blade. Maybe I need a high lift blade? How can you identify high lift, low lift and mulching blades? Any solutions to this problem besides a different mower?

[Gotcow?]

Mow your grass more frequently.

[Gilbey]

Regular blades are usually fairly straight and have a longer cutting edge with just a little flare at the end. Mulching blades are more curved, sometimes they look like boomerangs! Absolutely, a mulching blade in really tall grass is going to clog under the deck. You can try cutting at a super slow speed. You can also try cutting with the deck all the way in the up position and lifting up the baffle on the mower deck to allow more clippings to escape the deck. How large an area? Can you weed wack it down, let sit for a few days and then mow it? 

[flyrad10]

Scraped out built up crud underneath mower with putty knife and that helped along with cutting slower and narrower section. Thanks for replies and will try to cut grass more frequently. Way overestimated power of gas walk behind mowers and realize they are just glorified toys and can’t cut hay on the farm.

[Gilbey]

Or just get some goats!  

[bass-o-matic]

Make sure your blades are sharp.

[gellfex]

Weedwacker, rake, then mow. I did this on a postage stamp lawn, for a real lawn it would get old real fast. 

[flyrad10]

Huge lawn but abbreviated by dogs and bad remediation job due to Carls river sewer project. Weed whacking addicts could certainly Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out on it.
Where can I get some good goats? Could be more economical and better for the environment than weekly gas powered assaults. Had goats in 1972 and they kept a large lawn cut by tethering on leashes and moving them around. They make good pets and you can walk them around like dogs and they don’t pull on leash without training unlike dogs. Couldn’t be a more pain in the butt than dogs, see above. Home Depot could make more money too selling and repurposing their sheds for goats, barbecues for goat ribs and equipment for making goat cheese. Pet Smart could add a whole goat section, wow the possibilities! Maybe start a goat keeping thread. 

Edited September 21 by flyrad10

[cheech]

Another way is to cut it at the highest setting, then rake, blow or recut the clippings at a lower height.

 

Had goats in 1972 and they kept a large lawn cut by tethering on leashes and moving them around. 

1 hour ago, flyrad10 said:

Legend has it that Shepards tied their sheep around a post with a Sheepshank knot, letting out loops as needed to graze a big widening circle.

[Mike Mendez]

Maybe put on some eye protection and tilt the mower up on the back wheels for the first forward pass and then set the mower down and pull it back over the semi-cut grass.

[JimW]

Sharpen blades, raise deck and sounds like you’re cutting wet.  If you can cut it dry a lot of issues go away.