Patent ID: 8186139

Claim:
A mower comprising: a deck having a rear side and a front side, the front side comprising a lift frame for attaching the deck to a tractor; right and left side blade guards extending generally perpendicularly from opposed sides of the deck; two baffles, a first baffle and a second baffle, each baffle extending generally perpendicularly and longitudinally from the front side of the deck to the rear side of the deck; three cutting blades, a left blade, a center blade, and right blade, in which the left blade is separated from the center blade by the first baffle and the center cutting blade is separated from the right blade by the second baffle; and a longitudinally-directed center channels, the center channel formed by the first baffle and the second baffle, wherein the center channel has a width that increases from the front side of the deck to the rear side of the deck and wherein at no point from the front side of the deck to the rear side of the deck does the width decrease.