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bbirder":2wxry5x5 said:Hero,
After using it awhile let us know how you like it. It cut my mowing time in half. Most people who convert never go back. :banana:
I'm sold on zero turn, just not with sticks. I really don't know if anyone except Cub Cadet makes a zero turn without sticks :???: Mine are both riders, not tractors. One has a 50" stamped deck with Kohler power. The other is a 54" fabricated deck with a Kawasaki. Both 23 HP.
ga.prime":2pu1caa7 said:What you gotta cut the yard there in South Dakota, once a year?John SD":2pu1caa7 said:Calman":2pu1caa7 said:bought a yardman in 2004 and still using it. I mow about an acre of lawn. I bought the 22 horse 42 inch cut and have only replaced blades and belts. Change oil and filter every spring. Still trying to figure out why the be nice you need cruise control on a rider mower.
Cal
I want and like cruise on a rider mower. My foot would get awful tired with my foot holding the pedal down for a long time. I wouldn't buy a mower without cruise :idea:
That's a fair amount of mowing. I was just guessing ya'll didn't get enough rain or have a long enough growing season there to require a lot of mowing.John SD":1vq8c9ax said:ga.prime":1vq8c9ax said:What you gotta cut the yard there in South Dakota, once a year?John SD":1vq8c9ax said:I want and like cruise on a rider mower. My foot would get awful tired with my foot holding the pedal down for a long time. I wouldn't buy a mower without cruise :idea:
Unfortunately, it's starting to look like it Haying got started this week and doesn't look like much. Will be next week before I get to it.
Last year I mowed most everything 4 or 5X and put just over 100 hours on the mower.
SJB":3q5tz22v said:I know I sound like a broken record on the Chinese stuff, but I can't help it.
I seriously doubt if you can buy a riding mower for less than $2500 that is not a piece of disposable junk. I like the cub regret remark, I had one of those. Belt kept popping off. Took the deck off and found the cheap Chinese bolts had bent and wallowed out a hole in the cheap pop can deck and was sitting crooked. All that from 50 hours of mowing a flat fescue/bluegrass lawn. What a joke.
ga.prime":p5h2mwpd said:That's a fair amount of mowing. I was just guessing ya'll didn't get enough rain or have a long enough growing season there to require a lot of mowing.John SD":p5h2mwpd said:ga.prime":p5h2mwpd said:What you gotta cut the yard there in South Dakota, once a year?
Unfortunately, it's starting to look like it Haying got started this week and doesn't look like much. Will be next week before I get to it.
Last year I mowed most everything 4 or 5X and put just over 100 hours on the mower.
Nesikep":10hevvk5 said:If you're mowing that much and not making hay, you need more 4 legged mowers!.. and they don't care how rough the ground is or how many obstacles are around either!
hillbilly beef man":35ade14u said:SJB":35ade14u said:I know I sound like a broken record on the Chinese stuff, but I can't help it.
I seriously doubt if you can buy a riding mower for less than $2500 that is not a piece of disposable junk. I like the cub regret remark, I had one of those. Belt kept popping off. Took the deck off and found the cheap Chinese bolts had bent and wallowed out a hole in the cheap pop can deck and was sitting crooked. All that from 50 hours of mowing a flat fescue/bluegrass lawn. What a joke.
It seems you get what you pay for in a mower.
I got three years out of a Yard machine (mtd), four out of a Husky (not husquvarna). I finally broke down and paid out for a JD x320. I paid twice as much for it as the other two, but it seems to be more than twice the mower that the other two were.
herofan":3h1jm9c7 said:I'm in need of a 42" lawn tractor; nothing fancy. I'm just using it for my lawn, nothing commercial or something that will be run to death. I don't need any bells and whistles; I just want it to mow the grass and not break down after i use it a couple of times. I'd rather not go with the high priced mowers. I'm looking at Huskee, Craftsman, and Troy-bilt. Those are around $1,000 in my area.
I read reviews and some people praise them while others say they have issues. What do you all recommend?
D2Cat":18voym77 said:herofan":18voym77 said:I'm in need of a 42" lawn tractor; nothing fancy. I'm just using it for my lawn, nothing commercial or something that will be run to death. I don't need any bells and whistles; I just want it to mow the grass and not break down after i use it a couple of times. I'd rather not go with the high priced mowers. I'm looking at Huskee, Craftsman, and Troy-bilt. Those are around $1,000 in my area.
I read reviews and some people praise them while others say they have issues. What do you all recommend?
The two sentences I highlighted tend to contradict each other. When you set the price low, the repairs go up!
I bought a 15 year old Kubota GT1860 that had an engine with a broken cam gear. It had been in a storage shed for 5 years. I rebuilt the engine. So now I have a rebuilt Kawasaki 18HP water cooled, 54" cut, power steering mower for under $1000. (I liked it so well, I bought another one...diesel... for $1200)
Buy something good, needing repair....fix it, then you have something that will out last the cheapies many times over.
M-5 I cut 2 acres every other week with it for last 4 yrs or so. [/quote said:If you are mowing 2 acres every two weeks you need to put a fence around it a let some cows in.
Bigfoot":1dxt52ql said:You can't compare the cub cadet of old, to the cub cadet of new, but I had an early 70's model cub once. Heavy welded deck, and bushings in all the wear points on the thing. One made like that and serviced would last a good many years.