Good for you to be helping your neighbor too, Nick. I would just tell him that it is easier on you and your equipment if you could mow more often, along with getting it done faster. Sickle mower might not be a bad idea!
Maybe I could figure out how to lift it up a bit, but out here in wind country, taking it off is impossible if you want to keep the clippings and other debris like small twigs and chopped leaves out of your face. Even with it on when it discharges into the wind it is a beating of debris in the face. That deck is actually open above the end of the right blade too.
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