New member here. I just purchased a Z227 with a 60 inch deck. My lawn is mostly bermuda, and it is like shearing sheep when I mow. Will the mulching kit handle thick bermuda effectively?
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Ken
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Ken
Mulching kit and bermuda grass
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I don't have a Kubota mower or Bermuda grass. I do have a Skag zero turn with a mulching kit and centepede grass. The mulching kit seems to do a good job. It should not be a problem as long as the blades are sharp and you keep the grass cut. The only thing I don't like is that it covers the operator (me) up with grass and debris.
Ken, I have a zg20 with a mulching kit. I have mowed zoysia and wire grass (which is a form of bermuda) without any problems. The drier the grass, the better it mows and the better it looks.
John
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I have Gator blades on my Toro Proline walkbehind. They do a pretty damn decent job in short thing grass but will bogg a mower down bad if tall thick heavy grass. The mower deck has to work twice as hard as it is with normal grass because your chopping the clippings twice.
As long as you stay ontop of the bermuda and keep it cut down short you wont have a problem.
As long as you stay ontop of the bermuda and keep it cut down short you wont have a problem.
How short do you recommend keeping it? I currently have it at about 3.5 inches and mow about every 5 days.
Ken
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Yep 3 to 3.5 on all my mowing equipment. Its an ideal height all across the board. Its much nicer and easier to mow on the equipment and its around the height where the grass blades will shade the root system and keep the sun light from drying out the soil so bad.
Every 5 days mowing may not be necessary if the grass isnt to terribly tall. You can let it grow to about 5 inches or so. And mow based on the rate of growth. Some of the lawns I mow for my lawcare customers I cut on a weekly basis and plenty other's I cut on a ever two week basis. Just depends on amount of rain and watering and grass growth.
Every 5 days mowing may not be necessary if the grass isnt to terribly tall. You can let it grow to about 5 inches or so. And mow based on the rate of growth. Some of the lawns I mow for my lawcare customers I cut on a weekly basis and plenty other's I cut on a ever two week basis. Just depends on amount of rain and watering and grass growth.
I know this is a 2-year old thread, but it kinda fits the subject I searched for.
I have a ZG237 with a 54 inch deck. I only want to mulch in the winter to take care of the leaves and pine needles. My old mower was a Yazoo-Kees with a 52 inch deck and a Kohler 26 HP (I think) engine. It did perfectly in what I need to mulch. After a single pass, it looked like everything had been vacuumed up, and my grass improved over five years to where I don't fertilize it, anymore.
I wanted to ask about the above post--besides an OEM mulching kit, I am not sure what is referred to as a "closed chute". Is this something you just fabricate yourself and bolt on over the discharge opening?
Also, I see a pic of the kit for my mower, but don't see if it bolts on or how it is retained. I have a hoist in my shop, which is how I installed and removed my old one, and wonder if I can do the same with the Kubota full kit?
Thanks for any replies and advice.
on edit--I do run the G6 Gator Mulching Blades since I bought it, this year.
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Having grown many athletic fields and seen all types of grasses on them, the Bermuda is one tough grass. On athletic fields during the hot muggy nights is when this stuff grows the best. It grows so well that I have witnessed it growing between 1/8-3/16" a night. I use to be in charge of cutting our high school grass, same stuff that is on colleges and pro stadiums, I would cut it everyday, right after the dew went away - with a reel mower, the better choice, and would throw up clippings everywhere, it was set to 1.25! Now why would you cut grass that short? The root system when exposed to sunlight makes the grass run much faster, now true it "looks" like you scalped the grass, and truly you have, but the period that it takes to look awesome is short! We would cut on Wednesday morning and NOT cut until Saturday(Friday night game), thus allowing the grass to grow out to a pretty green turf. I say all this because I have a large patch of it in my yard, and cut it with a push mower! It is set about 2" and looks great about 24 hours later. I use a mulching mower too, and if I let the grass grow about 5 days, I have a mess!
So if you are growing grass to make it look good all the time, I would set the blade at about 2"-2.5" and cut it a bout twice a week! - 3" is too high for Bermuda - but perfect for cool season grasses like fescue, it needs the height to grow well, it is a vertical growing grass and does not spread well, where the summer season grasses ( Bermuda's) are cut shorter to allow the roots to gather the sun's rays. Golf courses typically have Bermuda on the fairways so that dumba$$es that do not repair their divots can have a nice course after it repairs itself after 4-7 days.
And don't let people tell you that clippings are bad for the grass, it is natural fertilizer! As it breaks down, it feeds the grass. Just my 2 cents.....your grass, and your time to cut it !