Garden hose pressure booster

Texasmark1

Well-known Member
In the spring, many of us have to cut wet lawns/fields/improved pastures and all. If using a typical 3 blade manufactured deck (welded not stamped) it is a big mess under there. I have 3 ways of getting at mine but surely there is a better way. Yes I've seen the one that the deck tilts up and think that's a super idea. Just doesn't have spring suspension so my newest one is a Ferris without the feature.

Yesterday I took a few pieces of PVC and made a triple head squirter that I just slides up under the machine, one "fan pattern" head per blade, turn the water on, get in the seat, turn on the PTO and have at it....is the plan.

Haven't used it yet but surely it will work to some degree just as the deck flush ports work to some degree....have that too and not all that great...reason for the different approach.

Community water station sets dynamic water pressure at around 60 psig. PVC is rated for 250. Wondering if there is a sensible garden hose to garden hose electric booster to run me up a hundred # or so. I have an electric clearwater centrifugal pump but it's only rated at 30 psig...HF special for irrigating from your pond water. Looking for 5 gpm capacity rough estimate.

Thanks,
Mark
 
Daaaaaaaa! Just got up this am and saw this on my machine. I think I posted it in the wrong place. Should have been tool talk. See if I can paste it over there.
 
On occassion we must cut wet/damp grass however i just sat my mower out in the sun for hour or so then run mower for a few minutes which helps to dry and clean. Never washed a deck in 60 yrs. of cutting grass and decks have outlasted the entire mower.
 
You will need a pump that reduces GPM and increases pressure, I would go with a centrifugal that curves out a the max pressure you want.
 
Interesting. If I let mine dry till the next day what would be the difference in what you are doing? Once mine dries out it hardens into a cake and is much harder to get out. Without water pressure or a scraper to dislodge what's stuck to the side and top of the deck, how does just running the mower sweep out the clippings with the same air flow patterns that put them there in the first place?
 
Can not explain, only know that on various mowers I do not wash and do not Accumulate the dense dried clumps. Perhaps the grasses in n Al is different or my grass is not as wet.
 
Well it may be like my Husq. I mentioned. The design is such that it's just not a magnet for it sticking since somebody in the design dept. did their homework before the design went to production. I'll tell you this much, when I wear this one out it will be replaced with like kind for sure.
 
Why not just purchase an inexpensive electric pressure washer? I plan to retrofit mine, with some type of curved head, to easily spray upwards under the deck.
 
Been surfing and haven't come up with a suitable pump as yet. Gladly accept anybody's effort if they know of such. Nothing fancy, just basic functionality.
 

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