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Read articles →Focused on a specific late-season brush hogging hazard: grass seed clogging radiators and hydrostatic coolers. Mike shows an actual plugged tractor, explains why the top screen is often the real culprit, then walks through his leaf-blower-plus-shop-vac-tube trick and a follow-up compressed-air blowout. It's a short, practical how-to with a real-world example rather than theory. Most useful to owners who do seasonal mowing work.
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Tall grass seed heads shatter and get sucked into the grill or radiator by the fan, which can impede airflow and damage the engine or hydrostat.
Push debris out the front using a leaf blower with a shop vac tube attached at a right angle, then follow up with a compressed air blower on each fin.
Yes, taking off the bucket and lifting the arms keeps grass from bending over into the grill, which reduces seed shattering into the radiator.
