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Originally Posted by inspectorudy
I don't know how your neighborhood looks but in mine EVERY yard has uneven mow strips after they have been mowed. My yard is pretty steep and the original lift/hold arms just do not keep it in the level ground position. Once I get on a hillside the deck will tilt slightly so that I have a low side and a high side strip of grass. It looks ok for the first couple of days and then the longer grass gets much greener than the shorter and looks like hell. Now when I start out on the hillside I cut a short strip and then back up and see what it is doing on that particular day and simply turn the turn buckle nut to adjust the tilt. I am conjuring up a way to have a rod that is mounted on the deck come up through a slot in the tranny cover plate marked for zero tilt on flat ground so that when I get off grade it will show me the tilt angle that it is off from zero. Then I will not have to mow a test strip to find perpendicular/90 degrees angle to the tractor. It is simply amazing how none of my neighbors who almost all have lawn services using commercial machines have evenly cut lawns. These lawn services represent all makes of mowers and none of them have a tilt adjustment that is easily used. Does anyone know of an electronic angle measurer that has a remote read out? Sort of a simple bubble level with a remote gage. That would make the setting very simple and would tell you when and if your deck got out of level. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. The drawing below is crude but it is like using an etch-a-sketch! The angle arm would have a "U" in it to go around the drive shaft. Any ideas on this design?
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I came here looking for an answer for this problem. I learned that it was my tire pressure. I had called the dealer, thinking I needed a servicing, he said check the tire pressure. That clicked, I knew the tires were a little soft. Didn't think it could make that big of a difference, but after inflating up to spec, no more uneven mowing with a short grass stripe on the lower side of the hills.