Review: Cub Cadet RZT 50 Mulching Attachment Install

TightWadDIY
899 followers
Apr 1, 2016
I have a bagger for this mower but it was not working well. I prefer a mulching mower anyway because I don't like fooling with bags and grass clippings. The mulching attachment for this mower is pretty cheap around $40. I think it is well worth the investment.
Welcome back tightwads. It's been a while, but I've been working on some other things and I wanted to come back to you
I have a new mower. It's the cub cadet RZT 50-inch deck
It has the Kohler courage
22 horsepower engine
I've had it for a few months, but it's been winter time as you can see the grass is brown a
Little bit of green spots here and there, but the frost has got it pretty good
So I haven't been using it much. I haven't had any
Major maintenance other than replacing a fuse on it, but I did order
The mulching attachment I have the bagger with this unit, but don't really love it. It's okay gets clogged up
Fairly easily I may be hooking it up wrong
I'll tinker with it a little bit more in the spring, but I prefer to mulch anyway
So I bought the mulching attachment and we're gonna unbox it and see how to set it up
I'm also using a new
Joby or jobby mount that I bought for my phone, so we'll see how it works. I looked around online at prices and
The best price I found was that in Messick's MEC or sorry me SS
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Had the best price on it. It was
3735 and then shipping was another 695 on top of that and it came within two or three days
They ship same day or next day depending on what time you order and their website actually tells you what day it's going to ship
So it looks like it just really just slides in it's got some tabs on the bottom here and I assume those
Hook down inside the deck somehow, so we'll take a look
Said I've never used this before
Looks like this actually goes in the top part because I can see two grooves right here
so it simply slides in and
Already rigged up little hooks for this just because
the doors to get into my
House, I have a double door, but it barely fits. So I rigged up that to hold up the sheet while I pull it inside the house
So once I have this flip down
The plastic piece here goes over the tabs here. I'll bring in a little bit closer
So you can see it's held by
You can see it's held by these two tabs here and here that fit under this lip and holds it in place pretty simple
the other mulching attachment I had had a
rubber strap that hooked to the deck itself, but
so it looks
Can't even tell that it's on there except for the shoots a little bit higher
But I'm gonna take it out for a spin today and see how well it works
As you can see the mulching attachment is picking up the leaves
Pretty cleanly and mulching them up. It's I'm not throwing them out to the side because the chutes blocked
So it does a good job on
Pretty fair amount of leaves in my yard. I do like this mulching attachment so far
I've now cut a couple of times cut grass a couple of times with it and it does a great job
I don't get a trail of grass along the right side like you do with some mulching guards
So that could be a testament to the blades or the deck set up on this on this Cub Cadet RTZ
But I highly recommend
Purchasing it if you do own this mower
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