Double mowing will fix the issue but I would bet you have grain forming in your lawn. If you rub your hand across the grass does it stand up in one direction and not in the other? Kind of like hair on your head or your dog or cat.

 

Double mowing will fix the issue but I would bet you have grain forming in your lawn. If you rub your hand across the grass does it stand up in one direction and not in the other? Kind of like hair on your head or your dog or cat.

It's been dethatched and vertical cut. I also change mowing directions. I will look into this closer however thank you sir.

 

When was it verticut? Changing directions help slow it down but doesn't completely prevent it.

 

When was it verticut? Changing directions help slow it down but doesn't completely prevent it.

it's been one month. The other part of the lawn I mowed in a circle and it did it as well. I just recently went down to .50 and before at .70 it wasn't having this issue. It's under regulation and I feel I'm not taking too much off. Thanks

 

Double mowing will fix the issue but I would bet you have grain forming in your lawn. If you rub your hand across the grass does it stand up in one direction and not in the other? Kind of like hair on your head or your dog or cat.

Grain forming? I haven't heard of such. Can you explain?

 

Grain in bermuda grass tends to start to happen this time of year and it's basically when the grass will grow in a certain direction as in downhill or with repeated mowing direction (how you burn in stripes). If you have ever noticed that you will be cutting a lot off in one direction but not as much in the other direction. I can also cause scalping in one direction too. It usually happens when the turf is super thick and can usually be corrected with a scalping or verticutting. I use to have to deal with it all the time in my 419. You can read a lot more about it by googling "Grain in Bermuda Grass" should get you a lot of results.

 

419 is very prone to developing grain in my experience. It makes it easy to burn in stripes but that brings its own problems with turf durability and quality of cut. Even on my first scalp of the season when everything is totally brown, I can still see the grain from the previous season.

 

419 is very prone to developing grain in my experience. It makes it easy to burn in stripes but that brings its own problems with turf durability and quality of cut. Even on my first scalp of the season when everything is totally brown, I can still see the grain from the previous season.

At first glance I thought that sand pile was clippings. But surely its too small to be that!

 

Grain in bermuda grass tends to start to happen this time of year and it's basically when the grass will grow in a certain direction as in downhill or with repeated mowing direction (how you burn in stripes). If you have ever noticed that you will be cutting a lot off in one direction but not as much in the other direction. I can also cause scalping in one direction too. It usually happens when the turf is super thick and can usually be corrected with a scalping or verticutting. I use to have to deal with it all the time in my 419. You can read a lot more about it by googling "Grain in Bermuda Grass" should get you a lot of results.

Wow, didnt know that. Thats very interesting. I think I have a bit of that going on in the backyard.

 

I had this problem. The kickstand was loose on mine. It appeared to have been damaged from shipping or just the mower being old. When putting the mower on its kickstand, the stand would hit the rear drum causing it to become unparallel. Even being off 1/16th of an inch will cause aftercut appearance issues. You will need to "parallel the rear drum to the bedknife". See owners manual.

 

This is possible as well but I’m voting for grain since he didn’t have an issue before lowering hoc.

 

We have a local golf course with Bermuda greens. You can always count on the break towards the West. That’s grain.

 

I've been meaning to give an update on this. The problem was the rear drum was out of alignment. I found the cheapest parallel gauge I could and thought it was worth a try. I'm guessing just by sight it may have been out of alignment by fraction of an inch maybe 5mm. I'm new to reel mowing and it may be that the lower you go in HOC the more noticeable this problem is. I've only spot leveled my lawn with sand and this problem went away completely after leveling rear drum.

 

@rvczoysia do you mind sharing the gauge you purchased? Thinking along my GM journey I’ll need something to keep this thing maintained.