Recent content by MarDawgVT

Thanks Willy We have verified that the blades are swinging all the way out and they are pretty tight and don't move very much vertically.

ok thanks for all the help. Like you I am on snow watch now since we are in Vermont. I don't know what the tip speed is - I can ask Swisher and see if they will tell me... I think the deck is pretty deep but I don't have measurements. When I am near it again I will measure. It will be a...

Blades are on correct thanks

We have just tried to run it at full throttle. I was unaware of the rpm adjustment on the carb. Of to Toutube i go to fine it

Wow - that is the best explanation that I have got yet about the forward motion and the back cutting. We all thought that was happening with the tires. We mow behind a Polaris Ranger. The mower has an offset capability and we aligned it as far to the side as possible and the combing(which is a...

That is what I would have hoped but NO! They told me that if I wanted to pay shipping to their factory they would take a look at it and then I would need to pay for shipping back to me. I made repeated request to have engineering look at the results and pics I sent but I never got any...

Thanks, While the Swisher customer service started well it ended very poorly. I can only hope that they will reconsider and solve the issue. I won't be a Swisher customer again unless this gets resolved.

Here is my update. The issue is still unresolved and the Swisher support team has dumped me. The first person to answer was great, once it got escalated the customer service quickly degraded and has I have been told that "there is nothing that they can do for me" to which I replied that there...

ok I'll try. It is mostly used by someone else in my family. I replaced the shaft assembly, at the recommendation of Swisher, when we had some play in the blade and stump jumper. That included the entire assembly with the upper bearing, lower bearing(which was pretty much gone) and the shaft...

I hope that the beginning of the thread would give sufficient history. I am not the primary user of the machine but it has been a long time

As an update, Swisher has recommended that I take the unit to a service center to have them do a test and evaluation. This is a bit of a challenge since Swisher does not have a local, within a couple of hours driving distance to me. So the Swisher customer service rep had a discussion with...

I agree that the likelihood of the blade swinging is remote. I do know that the blades are extended when it stops. I have not checked the level of the blades I will do that on the flat garage floor. I do know that I replaced the spindle assembly including the shaft, upper and lower bearing...

Model is Swisher RC17552BS Hope that helps!

no blades hitting the deck as they would make serious noise. I am thinking of doing a test where I extend the blades out and then tighten them so that they would not swing inward and see what happens, Do you see any downside of doing that as long as I don't hit something hard? Thanks

This is a single spindle driven off the B&S motor. On the cutting spindle there is a stump jumper and has 2 swinging blades that come off that single spindle. Very similar to how a Woods brush hog is configured