Lawn Mower Blade Height

[Warstud]

My Troy Bilt mower has blade height settings 1 - 6 ........ With 1 being the lowest and 6 being the highest .
I set it either on 4 or 5 depending on the weather ....... When would someone need it set as low as 1 ?

 

[walterjay]

Only if they wanted to destroy the lawn

 

[Escape08]

No. 5 or 6 is good

 

[97prizm]

My Troy Bilt mower has blade height settings 1 - 6 ........ With 1 being the lowest and 6 being the highest .
I set it either on 4 or 5 depending on the weather ....... When would someone need it set as low as 1 ?

If you wanted a gold course type cut. Many years ago when in middle school and high school I had a number of customers that I mowed lawns for. One lady in particular wanted the back half cut like a golf course so her husband could practice his putting. I learned to not quote a flat rate till I saw the job.

 

[Warstud]

Only if they wanted to destroy the lawn

Right .......... maybe setting 1 is for mowing the grass that grows in your driveway .

 

[stangguy]

I think there is some type of creeping grass that is used on I think golf greens that is actually cut that short

 

[Hall]

If you wanted a gold course type cut.

That also requires a certain type of grass too, if I'm not mistaken. Rye fescue, KY bluegrass, etc probably can't take that, so you need Bermuda grass, St Augustine, and others.

 

[DemoFly]

Most of the warm season grasses down south have no issues with a deck cut height of 1". Actual height of cut of 1.5" or so since the mower rides on the thatch layer.

1" is also a cut height for scalping if you are planning a kill-off or overseed.

 

[4WD]

Most of the warm season grasses down south have no issues with a deck cut height of 1". Actual height of cut of 1.5" or so since the mower rides on the thatch layer.

1" is also a cut height for scalping if you are planning a kill-off or overseed.

Huh ?

 

[JTK]

I'd be mowing dirt and rocks at #1 and that's only if the deck doesn't plow against the ground at that setting first.

 

[Warstud]

I think there is some type of creeping grass that is used on I think golf greens that is actually cut that short

I think they use a Reel Mower on the Greens >>>>>>>>>>>>

 

[4WD]

I think they use a Reel Mower on the Greens >>>>>>>>>>>>

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We went down on the field level at Minute Maid Park (Astros) - the groundskeepers had 48” wide JD reel mowers - razor sharp - they could cut 1/16” off the grass

 

[Warstud]

Most of the warm season grasses down south have no issues with a deck cut height of 1". Actual height of cut of 1.5" or so since the mower rides on the thatch layer.

1" is also a cut height for scalping if you are planning a kill-off or overseed.

I 'm not sure if setting 1 is 1 inch or not

 

[Hall]

In SW Ohio, if I cut my grass at 3-1/2", it looks scalped. My ZTR has increments in 1/2" down to 1-1/2".

 

[jeffy876]

I've been wondering this recently as well.

I have a couple rental properties and I keep a lawnmower at each one, plus I do my parent's house, and grandparents on both sides are still in a house with a yard so I do those, and my dad's brother has a small yard nearby so I do that, they all have their own lawnmowers, so without trying to I'm somehow running a fleet of like a dozen different lawnmowers, and on every single one I only ever use a height setting either at the top or near it.

Why they trying to get people to cut so low?

 

[DemoFly]

Huh ?

Zoysia, centipede and bermuda are all regularly cut at 1" to 1.5" profile. The only outlier warm season grass is st. augustine which is cut as long as fescue.

 

[4WD]

Zoysia, centipede and bermuda are all regularly cut at 1" to 1.5" profile. The only outlier warm season grass is st. augustine which is cut as long as fescue.

St Augustine is no outlier in Texas, Louisiana, or Florida …

 

[DemoFly]

Won’t speak for all of the south - but St Augustine is no outlier in Texas …

I'll rewrite that sentence. "The unique warm season grass that isn't cut short is St. Augustine."

 

[Lubener]

My Troy Bilt mower has blade height settings 1 - 6 ........ With 1 being the lowest and 6 being the highest .
I set it either on 4 or 5 depending on the weather ....... When would someone need it set as low as 1 ?

On the last mowing before winter. You don't want long grass in snow country.

 

[Snagglefoot]

On the last mowing before winter. You don't want long grass in snow country.

For my last cut, I leave it long. The deer forage on it during cold snaps.