In the last video Mowerfreak, he got rid of that lovely green solid base for that rusty steel deck? I'm sure that's rust and paint flaking near the adjustment bar and spring on the deck. I have never actually used one of those thumb latch catchers so I can't say how good they are.
The only thing I like is it looks like it has bigger capacity than the smaller catchers. But also that could be a problem if you have alot of heavy grass and dirt etc as sometimes even my smaller catcher can get quite heavy with grass and stuff, it actually flexes or bows at the top of the catcher when lifting it off the mower to empty it. This ended up cracking the catcher near the top opening where the metal flap sits from the mower.
Now I have reinforced the top part of the catcher with an aluminium angle bracket screwed to the inside top of the catcher near the handle. Now no matter how much grass, dirt, branches, rocks whatever is in the catcher. It can handle all the extra weight no problems and the top will never bow or bend at all...lol. Match that with the recently installed front metal catcher patcher and you could use that old saying for my catcher, it's built like a brick **** house! Or something along those lines...LOL!
Cheers!
Zip a dee doo dah, zip a dee ay, another trash picked Victa, hip hip Hooray!
