Grasshopper front-mount mowers

A 22 hp is going to struggle in field grass. Whatever dealership that sold you that 691 Kawi to mow a couple acres of field grass wouldn't get my business ever again.

I have a pair of Grasshopper 729 mowers with 61" decks. The one with the bagger only gets used for cleaning up leaves etc. in the fall but the other does the rest of the job. I mow about 4 1/2 acres of grass including bluegrass lawn, bromus roadsides plus field drives and waterways and whatever else needs cleaning up. The 29 horsepower Kubota engines are beasts. I have only made one major modification and that is to mount two sets of blades on each rotor. The newer, sharper blade is on the bottom and an older used blade goes on the bolt above it at a 90 degree angle. Using a pair of blades does an excellent job of chopping up the thatch and at the same time it caused the heavy windrow to be thrown far out to the side and scattered broadly. The other thing that I have changed is to remove the grass chute to allow th windrow to spread more broadly. I initially just fastened it up but the darned thing kept catching on the fir tree limbs. If the new growth to be cut is less than 4" or so in height you can mow in "road" gear. I had to slow down a little bit in the road ditches yesterday as we have had a lot of rain and in the last 6 days the bromus had grown by 6 to 8" but it cleaned it up and scattered it well.