[The Lawn Boy Pro]

Whats your most workable, and most productive combination of doubles that doesnt leave mounds of grass and picks up leaves very well?

 

[John Gamba]

Grass double high lifts/ Leaves rapters+ Einsteins.

 

[The Lawn Boy Pro]

Originally posted by John Gamba
Grass double high lifts/ Leaves rapters+ Einsteins.

Do you have a pic of rapter and einstein blades? never seen them or heard of them

 

[TRex]

Good post I was wondering the same thing. Right now I use the origonal high lifts the mulch blades that came with my Metro HP but after yesterday I noticed a few stringers only on one pass though. They have not left but one small clump in some real thick grass (going to fast)but they don't do much but push the leaves.

 

[John Gamba]

I will tonight, But i'm having a hard time finding the rapters?
john

 

[FrankenScagMachines]

Reverse gator (like J-Thomas has) over a reguler lift blade. Double high lifts are good for striping but I do not like them because they suck a LOT of power and really slow you down in tall/wet grass unless you have a lot of power for your deck.The Gator/Regular combo works well for me, the 17hp/52" is enough power, yesterday I mowed real tall sopping wet grass with it no problem at about 4.5mph. If it's dry I can go about full speed in most conditions. I am sure double high lifts are good in other conditions than mine, and with more power. But my all around favorite is gator over regular.

 

[UGA]

Gator over regular lift. With no anti-blowout baffle on my Surfer the high lift under gator is too much. BTW what is an einstein blade? First I've heard of them.

 

[FrankenScagMachines]

Einstein and Raptor blades are like a reverse Gator (wings point out not in like on a genuine Gator) as sold in J-thomas. They are maybe alittle different, not sure, but perhaps the biggest difference is just that they are sold by different companies.

 

[UGA]

Oh, gotcha' I have some Raptors and didn't really like them as much as Gators; they didn't seem to mulch as well or discharge as well. Who sells the Einsteins?

 

[FrankenScagMachines]

Rotary and PrimeLine sell these types of blades, but I don't remember which ones sell which. I think PrimeLine sells Razorback blades which are also another name for these things.

 

[John Gamba]

Rapters Are sold by steins, they are used on scags mulching system. Einsteins are steins to but they will not lift the grass but mulch very well. i will have pics tonight.
John

 

[The Lawn Boy Pro]

So, are these gators or not?

 

[Movinfr8]

Don't Gators have a little alligator stamped on the bottom side of the blade?
Norm

 

[John Gamba]

Ok Stein's rapters are first,second Einstein,third gator magnum.

Rapters work very well in most conditions you will mow a little slower but on the ultracut deck they chop the grass up very well. they also work great when bagging.

Einsteins work very well in chopping up the leaves or when bagging leaves. they don't work well in grass NO VACUUM.

Gator magnums i think just SUCK.

 

[Envy Lawn Service]

It's Stens and you used to be able to surf their online parts catalog. But now I guess you can't...unless I'm not doing something right. There site now appears to be dedicated soley to Stens dealers.

Like John, I have never been all that crazy about Gators. I first tried them on the old Murray and I have a set for the Z, which is an OEM Yazoo/Kees part. On the Murray they produced unreal discharge force and really made the discharge clippings a lot finer. But for mulching w/mulch kit they sucked. On the Z they don't seem to do much of anything.

 

[battags]

I've been running high lifts with gators on top. When the grass gets high and I need to bag (quite often around here this summer) I found that the gators really mulch it up and the high lifts pack it in the bagger pretty tight.