how did he come up with 3%?
he made it up.
"its not much of slope" translates into 3% because I asked a question he didnt have an answer to and he was frustrated.
Women call it "male answering syndrome"
It's actually quite common.
He's coming here looking to get all this information of scag Vrides how it sucks and support to buy a new machine, and he didnt get it.
GOOD advice doesnt frequently come n the form of what you want to hear.
Thing is, there are so many things in play with cut quality issues, without loads of documentation, pics and back and forth, finding out what the problem is is difficult,
also newbs frequently exaggerate what the issues are, when they are most commonly every day things we all deal with.
They see pics or live examples of the perfect cut lawn and think they can just buy a machine and get that result in a single high speed pass and if they dont get it the machine must be screwed up.
You SHOULD be able to go to your dealer, 75% of what I know I was taught by a vendor or dealer.
Ewing, HD Fowler, GJ Pipe & Supply, Brandmans Equipment, Mad Mike the equipment guy.... all great dealers over the years.
BUT... Scag Dealers are notorious for not knowing much of nothing about anything.
We've got a bad one here too.
I'm a SCAG GUY and we aren't buying scags any more, that tells you something.
It's NOT SCAG per se, it's really customer service and support, the mfg or distributors arent making sure the dealers have the knowledge and experience they need to answer questions like "why does my cut look funny and how do i fix it"
However, Ill weigh in with this as well:
Dealers dont have the customer support they used to because the vast majority of their customers are one and done.
They buy one thing and disappear.
All these DIY backyard mechanics not wanting to pay dealer fees.
How do they gain the experience and afford to have a guy on staff if they havent seen the same thing 9 times since may?
They dont have the answers because the repairs arent coming in to them.
Too many people trying to google the answer, which leads them to lawnsite, which brings them here with silly questions, rather than their dealer.
You hear lot of guys give advice on here "what mower should i buy"
The answer " the one with the best dealer support"
But how many guys ACTUALLY use their dealer vs trying to save money and wrench themselves?
We already know the answer, its a rhetorical question.
How many of us here get phone calls form homeowners doing DIY stuff asking for our time of the phone without wanting to pay for it?
they want free advice so they can do it themselves.
Well at a dealership? Thats 10 times worse than it is at a landscaping company.
If you want a good dealer with dealer support you got to pay for it, which means not buying the machine with the cheapest deal and then not using that guy ever for anything else, assuming "youve already paid enough" because your machine was $10,000.00.
So its really all a catch 22.
There's a hole in the bucket, Lysa.