My mower sucks and I'm happy about that.

There's enough new threads about "When do we get the high lift blade???" and I even started a couple and got at least one of them closed by b*tching too much about it and the lack thereof.

So for something completely different.  Thanks to a helpful soul here who pointed out Amazon had some - I got mine!  Then it rained for 4 days and I couldn't use it.

So today I mowed my front lawn with the usual "mulching" blade and plug, and it was slightly damp, and left trails everywhere.  Not a good look, no suction at all, with trails where the wheels pushed the (uncut) damp grass flat.  (height set on 2 by the way)

So I cleaned the mower, sprayed the underside with that liquid film stuff from Lowes, and put on my High Lift baby.  And moved to the backyard.

I left the mulch plug in, (yeah yeah yeah I know, and MEH to that, this is the way I roll, bag, schmag, I'm mulching)  And mowed away, with about 200 magnolia leaves on the ground and a couple dozen of those cone looking things they drop.  This tree has been the bane of my luxury problem life.  Before we started butchering (read as, pruning) it, it would drop 150 leaves a day, all year around onto the lawn.  I even had a leaf vacuum once (that was a POS)  And my kid and I made bamboo poles with spikes in the end to go pick up leaves one by one.

Before with the regular blade, I had to go over the lawn with a rake and any leaf even sitting sideways between the blades of grass had to be brought out of the grass and on the very tips of the to-be-mown grass.  Not today, I did none of that to see what this thing will do.

Well guess what?  Drum roll.....

Dudes (y dudettes) - I GOT LIFT!  Lift, real LIFT, and SUCTION. 

My back lawn, mulched with the high lift blade, looks WAY WAY WAY better than my front lawn.

Even the pine cone things went "munch" and turned to dust (Always had to pick them up before)

No trails, the sucker sucked sh*t up and MUNCHED it.  I got into the bark dust a bit once and it pulled a bunch of that up as well and chewed on it.  Then I ran thru a pile of bamboo leaves and it sent teeny pieces flying everywhere.

So, in the groove, I went back to the front lawn and ran back over the trails and the wheel smershed down damp grass, well if sucked/lifted that chit up and chopped it to smithereens as well.  It even sucked up the grass off the sidewalk and pulverized it.

Yup, da HL blade is a real thang, and it took away my only complaint with my mowa.....

My mower sucks, and it's a good thing.