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I will be crawling under there shortly to see what’s going on!!! 🤠

Drive belt to tight?

I would check to see if the deck is bent/damaged in the area where the spindles mount. Flip the deck upside down and put a straight...

As a couple of others have mentioned, bent blade will definitely do this.

I take it you’ve had the mower awhile an haven’t done any recent work on it. Take belt off an check center blade spin freely. Only time...

I’d guess that the pins holding the deck to the frame have come disconnected- one in and one off the bracket

I just got a Craftsman riding mower with the snowblower attachment on it. Got it running today and the augers are “on” or engaged even...

It is doing well now, thank you all. I believe it was one of the tires was sufficiently under inflated and I did put the machine/deck...

Thanks all!!!! Blades are mounted correctly, sharp and have plenty of meat on them. Tire pressure is good. I do believe the deck is not...

Deck angle and height. It's too steeply angled front to back and off level

Deck not level, low side, high side, and when high side matches up against low side on next pass it shows more... Just guessing here.

My guess is that you don't have your blades mounted correctly. They should be mounted like this: -/- Thus, they'll never clash and...

I’d check the deck for level also. The blades do overlap in the way they cut, that’s why one blade in the middle is in front of the others.

Get ready to laugh, but in the last 20 years of owning a few nice riding mowers with 54” 3-blade decks, I hadn’t ever noticed the...

I was using corn head oil in my John Deere 506 for many years. Finally I got tired of always adding a bit of oil and I took the gear box...