I noticed the lack of height when I used the Vortex beater and 10 wasn't high enough and scalped part of a lawn I was doing where it needed it a tad higher.
It could be that the front axle locations are badly worn and the free play up and down gets multiplied be each additional millimeter of wear.
The Mustang which has the same base but no front axle movement, has never presented an issue with not enough height, but I haven't used it in that piece of spongy lawn I had the beater on, where the wheels sunk abit.
You're right about the chute Tyler, I have mown some weed jungle and it leaves a clean well defined path despite the huge amount of cuttings it's dealing with. A Mayfair won't have a hope of achieving that. Glad to hear wet grass gets taken care of with flying colours, just as the VC mowers were designed to do with their cavernous chutes all that time ago.
I'm surprised the Vortex type chute does so well with it's tall but skinny design. It must be the airflow it permits that helps the most, rather than sheer volume for the cuttings to travel through.
It would be nice to see a science based study of how the high arch bases do their work.
