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Optimal Cut Quality and Customizable Deck

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Mower test & Review of the Cub cadet Pro z 972 sd (aka the Billy Goat)

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The presenter discusses the mower's superior cut quality, attributed to an industry-leading 1.5 inches of blade overlap between its three chambers, totaling 3 inches of overlap. This design significantly reduces untouched stragglers and ensures a cleaner, more even cut compared to standard mowers with 0.75 to 1 inch of overlap. The deck also features removable baffles, allowing the operator to customize airflow and cutting performance based on grass type and conditions, from dense northern bluegrass to finer southern St. Augustine or Bermuda grass.

Goal: Understand how deck design and adjustable features contribute to superior cut quality.

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  • Cub Cadet Pro Z 972 SD Mower Cub Cadet — Illustrating deck design and cutting features

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And one thing that CubCadet has always been known for is a high quality of cut. There's a couple things that we do in this deck to give you as high a cut quality as possible. We've all been mowing before and we'll get those stragglers sometimes popping up in between where the where the blades meet up. Y So, industry standard is is about 3/4 of an inch to 1 in of overlap from chamber to chamber to chamber. We do an inch and a half of overlap from chamber to chamber to chamber, giving us 3 in of total overlap in that deck. Oh, and what that means is you're going to get a lot less chance for stragglers and get a very nice even clean. Okay. So, under the deck, your blades are overlapping enough that you're not going to be able to get unless you're cruising cuz these things fly. They do. Yeah. This machine actually goes uh 12 mph. The single wield unit in the 900 series goes 14 m an hour. You know, you can design a deck to cut great in the north where we're cutting a lot of bluegrass, fescue. Then they sometimes might not cut well down in the south where we're cutting St. Augustine, Baja, Bermuda, Zoya. So, what we've done inside that deck is we've added removable baffles inside the deck. So, there's a removable baffle on the trim side, the discharge side, as well as back on the discharge opening. And in owner's manual, we give a really nice breakdown and grid for what you're cutting, how high you're going to be cutting that allows you to customize that deck for the best conditions uh that you're going to be mowing in.

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