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Gator Blade Advice Review
For my purposes, they're great. I've done a lot of rough trimming with a push mower; electric fence lines, ditch banks, etc. So I probably go through more push mowers than the average homeowner. Each new mower I start out with eventually pretzels the OE blade. I replace it with a Gator. I've also replaced quite a few push mowers. But I've never had to replace a Gator blade.
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Maybe you installed it upside down?. Just kidding. It's a mulching blade Frank. Under normal circumstances, the walnuts should have helped keep the deck clean. Sounds like you used it on stuff that was too wet and/or long. It's most effective when removing 1.5" of grass or less.
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Interesting. I've found Deere blades to be so substantial that I never considered any replacements other than OE. I had a 317, then a 430, now an X500. Guess that's why I limited my initial response to push mowers.
Having thought about it though, I removed the deflector shields from every one of my JD riders because of clogging. And that was with OE blades. No deflector, no clogging. Given the fact that JD uses high quality blades, I never had cause to replace them with anything other than OE. I guess what I'm saying is that the clogging you describe may quite likely be less a Gator problem that it is a John Deere problem. Or that ANY mulching blade might make the John Deere deflector shield clogging problem worse. I'm guessing that's why the John Deere mulching adapter kit for my X500 costs over $400
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FWIW, that garden hose connection on my X500 is completely worthless. But back to the Gators, it's an actual company with a patent. Knock-offs might use the word "gator" in their product description. Real property and concepts can be patented, you can't patent a word that's already in the dictionary. But I'm pretty dang sure Gator has a rock solid patent on the actual/original finned blade design. See link below.
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