Since all the controls for hydraulics, throttle, PTO, loader and gear selection are on the right hand side inside the cab, work requiring extra attention is all done with the right side of the mower where the operator can turn to his right and see and control everything.
Work such as mowing ditch banks, the edge of all the fields and along roadways.
As a result, the right blades operate in a higher risk zone for strikes with the ground or hidden obstacles such as grass covered rocks, tree stumps or fallen braches, trees or logs.
Even some items lost or forgotten by humans such as pulp hooks, discarded or forgotten fencing, or old pasture gates.
No matter how careful you are or slow you go, you still can’t see everything under the tall grass and the right side blades do find those items.
Whereas the left side blades are always in a safe and obstacle free zone in the field.
Here are the left side blades.
They’re like new still.
Here you see the right side blades showing signs of hitting objects, but they still cut pretty well. No need to replace or sharpen yet.
If you sharpen, you need to weigh each to make sure they wrigh the same for balance.
Here are a couple of examples of mowing a ditch bank.
The side decks or wings will mow lower than the horizontal plane.
They’ll mow from about negative 25 degrees to positive 80 degrees.