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Replace Blades and Adjust Deck Height

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What happens here

Once the damaged blades are removed, install new or freshly sharpened blades, ensuring they are oriented correctly (sharp edge facing the direction of rotation). Use the impact wrench to securely fasten the blade nuts, remembering the reverse thread on the center blade. Next, to adjust the cutting height, loosen the four bolts on each wheel assembly of the mower deck using the impact wrench. Manually lift the wheel assembly to the desired height (e.g., two notches up for 4.5 to 5 inches) and re-tighten the bolts securely. Repeat this process for all wheel assemblies to ensure an even cutting height across the entire deck.

Goal: Install new or sharpened blades, tighten them with the impact wrench, and then adjust the mower deck's cutting height by repositioning the wheel assemblies.

Tools and materials

  • Appropriate socket
  • DeWalt impact wrench
  • Impact extension
  • Impact wrench adapter kit
  • New or sharpened mower blades

What they say

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job done so once again this is where pays to have the right tools got a impact socket and an impact extension oh and our impact driver we were doing this with a regular ranch it'd take me forever this is a 9/16 loosened four bolts and we'll raise it up she's got a little bit of weight to her we're bringing it up two notches and once we get one bolt and nut started should stay in place give me a little more detail here in a second our cutting height now should be somewhere in the neighborhood of four and a half inches maybe five so we'll repeat this process with the other one and basically all we're doing is aligning these nuts with different holes raising the deck up and then when we get ready to slide our pins back in our deck will be about that much higher that'll make us roll through this a whole lot faster and the whole goal is just to take the top off of the grass and to cut the lespedeza we've got some lespedeza that's getting ready to seed out I don't want it to seed out I don't want the weeds to seed out so that's why we're mowing vigorously we have never ever ever let this grass in our lawn grow up and spit out seed and look at it look at how good it's doing look at the root structure you really can't see the root structure but you can see that is rock star man that's what we want our hay fields and our pastures to look like so what we're doing is intensively mowing feeding the land with the grass clippings and the weed clippings and cutting it before the weeds spit out seeds so that we can reduce our weed load without sprays that's the plan and it keeps sift Pearlie away so our deck

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