I found a technique to clear a clogged deck that seems to work well.
Once you see, hear, feel the deck is clogging, proceed to a "dumping ground" with the mower still running at operating speeds.
At the same time, turn off the mower and drop the throttle (with the objective of getting the blades to stop as fast as possible). Depending on your mower, an alternative technique is to kick-on one of the safety switches by lifting yourself off the seat or something.
When I do this, all the caked on stuff falls off the deck. Any blades that have lift are pushing it up there and if you stop the blades quickly, the built-up grass falls off the deck under its own weight. I mentioned "dumping ground" since there's now going to be several inches of caked up wet grass sitting there... Not something I want in the middle of the yard.
I found that Fluid Film also does a fantastic job of keeping grass from sticking to the inside of the deck so I apply that after every through cleaning of the underside of the deck.
Once you see, hear, feel the deck is clogging, proceed to a "dumping ground" with the mower still running at operating speeds.
At the same time, turn off the mower and drop the throttle (with the objective of getting the blades to stop as fast as possible). Depending on your mower, an alternative technique is to kick-on one of the safety switches by lifting yourself off the seat or something.
When I do this, all the caked on stuff falls off the deck. Any blades that have lift are pushing it up there and if you stop the blades quickly, the built-up grass falls off the deck under its own weight. I mentioned "dumping ground" since there's now going to be several inches of caked up wet grass sitting there... Not something I want in the middle of the yard.
I found that Fluid Film also does a fantastic job of keeping grass from sticking to the inside of the deck so I apply that after every through cleaning of the underside of the deck.
