Yeah I've got an older Woods RM360 that I've been playing with. I did the conversion late last year and tried it out when the grass wasn't growing much. First thing I noticed is on the far left blade(previous discharge was on the far right blade, I'll call this blade 1 looking at the mower from the rear), the discharge was hitting the wheel and causing a windrow. A simple fix as I made a bracket to move the wheel further out.
Two weeks ago I went up to mow and the grass was pretty high. The blade 1 was fine but I was getting some windrowing between blades 2 and 3. Remember 3 was the discharge side.
I made a couple mods, I made the baffles to sit at or just below the blade height, thinking this might help the flow. My ground is rough...not a clean yard...and one baffle got pushed back a bit and the blade was tapping it. So I took the torch and cut the baffles to just above blade height. Didn't help the windrowing but the cut was better, I think the baffle was holding the grass over some. Next I cut out the baffle that ran further down than the other ones (see pic, in the pic the doschargr was on top, blades turn CCW). No help either. All this while Blade one is working perfect.
We are heading up on Saturday and I should have a good stand of grass. To continue working on it, I going to cut off the back of the mower. You can see in the pic I just bent it up. It's actually still at cut level so it would seal off the air flow. What you don't see in the pic is I already cut off sections by the wheels, because I didn't notice that when I back up, the wheels would hit the part I bent up. Then we;ll see what happens. I was alone last time I mowed so I couldn't stand behind the mower and see what was going on. This weekend I will have a driver. Just typing here I also didn't try to lift the mower and see what happened.
These are good pics that folks are posting...except they don't make much sense because both are different!!!
I stopped off at a TSC yesterday and looked under one of there gold ones. King Kutter I guess. It had the baffles like mine on the outside, but in the middle only a 1" deep baffle. Very wierd, very different. I hoping on mine it was just air getting trapped. Only other thing I can think of is you can see the deck of the woods has a channel in the front that the grass went through. The baffles were in the rear, your basic U shapes from about 4 to 8 o'clock. My baffel goes into the channel but it's a good couple inches taller than the rest of the deck. I might have to level that off with another piece of plate.
I started this mod because the baffles in the mower were torn up and the grass was just clumping out of the rear. Also the deck had some holes in it that can see I covered with some plate. The mower is 10 years old now and was used in a commercial operation for the first 7 years.
We'll see what happens this weekend.
Rob
The windrowing is in the last pic, I think I actually went over that place twice. The windrowing is not as bad as the clumping once the grass dries out.
