Meg Mow Blades Reviews: It has no intention of endorsing or criticizing Meg-Mo. I promised Meg-mo that I would post a positive or negative evaluation of his product. It’s about Meg-mo and my current ZTR experience. That said, I’d appreciate it if those who “hate” it stayed away from this thread unless they have a legitimate question. I’ve had enough terrible news, and more isn’t going to help.
Meg-mo gave 20 free sets of his blades to anyone who wanted to try it after a particularly nasty thread about the system and him. I almost immediately recognized the deal but decided to pass after hearing so many people say it was pricey or didn’t work. After that, I noticed he still had 12 sets to give away on his Facebook page, so I figured why not? The best way to learn is to do it yourself. It’s free to be free. Shipping was also complimentary. Those offers are hard to come by, and if I didn’t like them, I’d be out nothing. I called him and had a good conversation with him. He swiftly drew out a pair and mailed them to me once I told him what machine I had.
I received them immediately (the second afternoon after the night I talked to him IIRC). Because the blades on my Deere ZTR are humped, he had to weld on a couple of spacers to equalize the cut height (supposedly, but more on that later). Many people, it seems to me, like criticizing the system and its sponsor, and I admit to doing so in the past, primarily because of how the Meg-mo sponsor posts on LS and some of their claims for the system, but I won’t go into that here because it’s meaningless.
For my 318 with 50 Blades
I purchased Meg-Mo blades “I thought I’d share my thoughts on the deck. First and foremost, the blades are approximately.200-.250 lower than the OEM JD blades. The blades will now be aligned with the deck’s bottom. The first time I used it, I was underwhelmed. With no lift, it’s a bad cut. It was April, and there were a lot of dandelions, and I’d only seen half of them. My solution was to buy the speed-up pulley and lathe the blade mounting facepiece of the spindle down to.200, then re-insert the blades into the deck.
Although the medium-lift JD blades still cut better, the cut quality has improved. The Meg-Mos are fantastic mulchers. There are no ridges. They are eerily quiet, and my Onan screams as they cut. They also appear to have less horsepower. In the future, I intend to produce spacers (.125) “To lift the blades, there must be a gap between the deck and the spindle housing. Overall, I’m pleased with them; but, for the price I paid, I expected them to perform flawlessly right out of the box. They aren’t a 50/50 team “Professor dr.
That’s a fantastic set of blades you’ve got there. Both sides of the interchangeable blades are sharpened, but one is twisted into the other, making reversing them impossible. The blades weren’t as sharp as razor blades, but they were close. I put them in my shop and forgot about them because it was winter in Michigan. Because the spring growth spurt was so brief, and then the drought hit, they were unnoticed until lately. The grass began to green up and grow again after the recent monsoon.
Why not, I thought of some Meg-Mo blades on a shelf.
They’re installed on my Z950 60.” I tested them on my own grass before deploying them on a customer’s lawn (which I take good care of and watered all summer). The sound was unique and different from what I’m used to hearing from high lifts. Second, the cuttings are truly flung by these suckers. I could see the clippings coming out smaller than any other blade I’ve ever used, with the exception of the OEM wavy blades and a full mulch package. At 34″, 3-5″ clippings came out of the discharge chute. I agree with you.
That wasn’t the only thing I noticed. Except for one location on the left side of the middle blade, which I believed was coming from the left caster but wasn’t, there were no stringers across the cut’s width. I got an 8-foot stretch of grass that was only half-trimmed “at that time It was an inch or so taller than the rest of the swath and looked rough while being shorter than the uncut grass. On the left side of the deck, I noticed a short uncut grass track, probably from a blowout. I went back to the shop, raised the front of the machine, and looked around to see what was wrong with the cut. The blowout on the left side, which I assumed was caused by spacers welded on top of the center disc, occurred as a result of this.
It was also exactly where I expected it to be, sandwiched between the left and center blades, albeit mostly on the left side of the center blade. Other than the MOD deck seeming baffled by all the changing gates, I couldn’t see it. Under the deck, where the rear skirts meet the blades, there are two small removable baffles. The airflow appears to be disrupted by the four-bladed discs, leaving the strip uncut. I’d removed the two baffles, so I tried it again with them in place and chopped some more. Obtaining several stringers as well as that obscenely tall 8 “uncut group Up and back to the shop.
The airflow from the Meg-Mo system’s left blade Appears
I tried it again, this time taking out the right side baffle but leaving the left in place. It’s a step forward, but not quite. The airflow from the Meg-Mo system’s left blade appears to be colliding with the airflow from the center blade around the dead center, generating turbulence and causing the grass to bend away from the cutting edges. With those blades and two retractable baffles, it’s somewhat cramped. The sails are strongly curved upwards, and there are four per rotor, so they move about the same amount of air as the OEM high lifts.
The next day, I returned to the shop to have another look at it. It was too small to aid in the location of the unit without increasing it, so I utilized a hole saw that fit perfectly within the spacer’s center hole and allowed me to increase the rotor’s center hole dead center. Then I took out the spacers and used an angle grinder to grind the welds away. After that, there was a remount. The removal of the spacers raised the blade/rotor assembly into the deck, putting the cutting edges at the same height as the OEM cutting edges, improving suction, and eliminating blowout on the left side.
For those who are familiar with the issue:laugh:, there is no vaporization, no hazmat suits necessary, or anything like that, yet they mulch both leaves and grass like crazy, cut wonderfully, and discharge as good as, if not better than, the OEM high lifts. I was considering trying the Meg-Mo instead of paying over $125 for a set of OEMs from Woods. These have been seen at various farm fairs and appear to be a nice arrangement.
