carpetfarmer
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A couple of questions about finish mowers.
1) When you set up a rough cut mower or a lawn mower, you usually want the deck to pitch forward a little bit, so that you are cutting with the leading edge of the blades, using less power, and so on. On a finish mower with wheels at all four corners, is the pitch already factored into the frame, or do you need to set the pitch using your height spacers?
2) As far as performance, quality and power requirements...or anything else that comes to mind, what are the differences between side discharge and rear discharge finish mowers? I picked up a Rhino FM72 about three weeks ago on a deal I couldn't pass up but I've always kind of thought a rear discharge would be more desirable because it would leave a more uniform discharge pattern and probably require less hp because you don't have to move all that material from one side of the deck to the other. There don't seem to be near as many rear discharge mowers for sale though.
1) When you set up a rough cut mower or a lawn mower, you usually want the deck to pitch forward a little bit, so that you are cutting with the leading edge of the blades, using less power, and so on. On a finish mower with wheels at all four corners, is the pitch already factored into the frame, or do you need to set the pitch using your height spacers?
2) As far as performance, quality and power requirements...or anything else that comes to mind, what are the differences between side discharge and rear discharge finish mowers? I picked up a Rhino FM72 about three weeks ago on a deal I couldn't pass up but I've always kind of thought a rear discharge would be more desirable because it would leave a more uniform discharge pattern and probably require less hp because you don't have to move all that material from one side of the deck to the other. There don't seem to be near as many rear discharge mowers for sale though.
