qwik chute on hustler z

[captken]

okay, i looked at the pictures, was impressed, bought one today. should get early next week.
any honest opinions out there concerning this product.
i did a search after the fact and found a not so flattering thread on the qwick chute. i'm gonna give it a try anyway, i quess i can return it if it is a pos.
i'll keep yal posted.

[captken]

your experience with it?

[John Gamba]

I Liked It alot On the Lazer. I took it Off Because We are Bagging All the time Now.
John

[captken]

snags? is operation smooth?

[John Gamba]

Very Smoth, You Push It Forwards And then You pull Back. Only One hole to Drill (On Lazers).
John

[Bigfoot]

Does it stay put when your running the flap part of the way open John.

[FrankenScagMachines]

JOHN!!! CROOKED STRIPES!!!!!!! OH NO!!!!! Look at the back end of your Lazer, they have a severe curve (unless thats a ground undulation).

[Bigfoot]

The stripes look fine to me and they have nothing to do with the Qwick Chute BHB.

[John Gamba]

Eric
It Is The Ground, But i Messed Them Up the other way, Will Show You The diamonds SOOOONNNN.
John.

yes It Stayed Down In that position. This Is the New One Or revised One Bigfoot.
John

[John Gamba]

Eric!
This Is The same Lawn, But With the Sun Behind Me. I'm Going to Do alot Of Renovation This summer For Next Year.
John.

[captken]

i would respond more but there is a confirmed tornado touch down a couple miles from my house and the tornado sirens are blaring....see ya.

[John Gamba]

GOOD LUCK!! Let Us Know How You Are John

[captken]

media coverage said confirmed touch down near here, funnel clouds sited, extremly high winds, minor damage to some buildings, flying garbage cans, tree limbs down, lots of flooding, cars stranded, mowing put off indefinitly...calling customers today to check on downed trees and limbs. if i can't mow, ill break out the power pruner and 026 pro.
i almost get to all customers before another bout of rain. prompting more than one call asking to be moved to the top of the list.... low drying conditions, more than twice the amount of rain for this month....customers want landscape and mulching done...am NOT taking on any more landscaping at this time. have flash flood warnings out for today,
Time to do the projects I've been putting off.

[LAWNGODFATHER]

Originally posted by BushHogBoy
JOHN!!! CROOKED STRIPES!!!!!!! OH NO!!!!! Look at the back end of your Lazer, they have a severe curve (unless thats a ground undulation). So what, you can't even make one straight.......

I am going to check out the www.MasterChute.com one.

[John Gamba]

Mike
I Forgot To Mention with The Quickchute You Can USE A BAGGER Like The accelerator.
They where Very Nice To deal with To.
John.

[rvsuper]

John,
Are you still using doubles when you are bagging?

[LAWNGODFATHER]

Sorry I don't bag grass.

I like the MasterChute not having the control tower and it is foot controlled.

I will let you know how it is after we got some use out of it.

[John Gamba]

RV
Not since I put on the Ultra-vac, But i Will Try It this Week. We are expecting Some rain Thursday And friday, I Will see If the 200lb Clutch That Doesn't Have a Air Gap Ajustment Like some Others Will hold the Power, i Need to run the doubles And the Blower. will let you Know soon.

Mike i thought you had Highend Prop's? We Now Bag everything!

john.

[LAWNGODFATHER]

I do have high end props, we haven't bagged grass in a long time, ever since I got rid of the Cushmans.

[John Gamba]

This Cool season Stuff We Call Grass May Stripe well, But when You Have a wet spring Like we Had it's Better and easier to Bag (Less Weeds In The Lawn To) The Ultra-vacs Are nice baggers. They Do Hold Alot And are Very Low.

i Use The 1060 Trac-vacs For the Bigger Ones, They Work real Well.

John

[LAWNGODFATHER]

Yeah feed that Bluegrass and it will grow FAST...

Been bouncing the premium priced bagging idea back n forth for the future.

[WLLD]

I have one on the new Hustler Super Z - only had it for a month or so now and really like it. Really like the partially open setting to let out some clippings. Every now and then it will close from the partially open position on a really rough lawn. Overall, a good investment IMO.

Shayne

[John Gamba]

Mike
I Know You Like Peco & I Had trac-vacs But the ultra-vac Is Very Nice, It Packs the Grass in there really Well, And dumping Is Easy To.
you can have One Of Your people dump it For you :D While You have a refreshment.
John.

[captken]

just got the qwik chute. installlation took about 15 mins. rain this afternoon, haven't used it in the field, however it installed easily, only drilled one hole. directions not needed for install. seems well thought out.
move the lever qwik, the chute opens all the way. spring loaded. move the lever back qwik, it shuts.
opening the door slowly and releasing allows a catch to hold the door partially open, like in the picture on the web site. wonder what sort of dispersal pattern the grass will take with the door partially open?
lever is adjustable.
factory safety guard for belt/pulley needs to be modified in order to fit back on. have to run with quard off at first.
pricey but looks durable.
hope to test tomorrow.

[chariot]

Captken, how is the qwikchute working for you? Hey LGF, are you using the master chute? If so, how do you like it? Thanks guys

[bayfish]

CaptKen,

I did a search on web for qwikchute, could not find it. How did you come across it or what is web address?
Tom

[LAWNGODFATHER]

Originally posted by chariot
Hey LGF, are you using the master chute? If so, how do you like it? Thanks guys Going to have a thread on it here real soon, keep an eye out for it.

[John Gamba]

Here Is The Qwikchute # 401- 944-9878 Florida. John

[captken]

I must have been really tired when I installed the qwikchute, and made my last post on this thread, the installation was a snap, the guards fit on with NO modifications, intact, in their factory original position.
I should have followed up with a post on that one.
The qwikchute operates very well, giving me the option to side discharge when I want to.

[John Gamba]

I Just Made a Great Mod on My Qwickchute(Lot Of Rain Today) I Now Can Use The Ultra-vac And the Qwickchute When Needed. I Put Two Bolt's And Nut's On The Deck Cut them To Fit And I Use Two wing Nuts To hold it Down. Nice and fast To!. I Will Have Picks Tomorrow.
John

[bayfish]

Thanks for the number John, I'll call them tomorrow.