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I've got a Pro 55 4s, but last years model which has a few things different, such as a honda engine instead of a briggs engine.
It's brilliant, mulching is very good, but not when at full speed in gear 2 it mulches the best I find. It also fills the bag right up when it's slightly wet and about 80% when its pretty wet. Not had to cut grass when it's soaking yet.
Hi Robert, I can't comment on the mower you have up a link for. I would recommend getting a combined mulching and collection mower. Mulching works really well if the grass is cut regularly, not cut to short, blades are super sharp and its dry. If you start taking one of these factors away (it rains for 10 days solid) and you are going to wish you had a collection mower. I wouldn't fancy raking up 8 dumpy bags of grass.
looks like a mountfield to me - to cheap wont last.
they are not great
http://www.stigalawnmowers.co.uk/special-offers/park-420lm-hst-ride...
i used an old farmers one of these type years ago ...
My experience of using the Mountfield SP535HW combi mower, is that unless the grass is bone dry and you want to trim say less than 25mm, it will quickly accumulate under the deck rather than on the lawn / field.
http://www.mountfieldlawnmowers.co.uk/lawnmowers/mulching-lawnmower...
A better option is to use the mulching plug and the side discharge, but if the grass is even slightly damp, it soon clogs the hole and accumulates under the deck.
I've got a quarter acre flat field of lush meadow grass to practice on every week at home. Unlike the Stiga model, the Mountfield has a handle to allow to lift the machine to scoop out the grass from underneath, it's all rather tiresome!
The Stiga's & Mountfields are the same company.
Lots of people run Stiga's of all sizes around here.
i just bought mulching mower for a coupe jobs to try them if the grass is dry and not to long they work well but from what i can see you need stand alone machines etesia, stiga or jd js63 not the combi machines
i got a stiga and a etesia they are both good machines
I run a Snapper 21" dedicated as a mulcher - it copes with upto 35-40mm in a cut although the shorter the amount removed the better the finish.
Its key to make sure the blades are sharpend often as anything short of Razor sharp impacts hugely on the quality of cut. I tend to keep it with me throughout summer and use it whenever its appropriate to, it saves about 50% of time compared to cut& collect on a pro46.
Don"t buy domestic machines for commercial use. They don't last