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Cutting edge vs. round nose, which do you swear by after that Lake Erie night job?
I was running suction near Toledo last October and a clogged cutterhead cost me 6 hours, but my buddy swears a round nose never grabs debris, so is the extra cutting power worth the cleanup risk or should I switch?
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finleyh891mo ago
Think about what the impeller is doing when you back off the cutterhead, not just the cutting edge... that's where the real debris jams happen. A round nose might slide past stuff, but it also lets more material through to the pump, which means you're trading a cutterhead clog for a bent impeller blade. I'd rather spend six hours digging out the cutter than replacing a $400 impeller mid-season.
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murphy.linda1mo ago
You ever open up a clogged cutterhead and wonder if the machine is just testing your patience as a person? Because that's exactly what it feels like. I get the whole $400 impeller argument, but honestly, by hour five of digging soggy weeds out of that thing, I'm ready to trade the whole rig for a shovel and a prayer. At some point, you're not fixing a jam, you're having a therapy session with a pile of rotten debris. And let's be real, that impeller's gonna find a way to bend anyway, just to keep things interesting.
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