Generally the deck is bigger. The whole thing is bigger. They use more
gas. They have more to go wrong. A big ZTR mower probably makes sense if
you cut grass for a living. I know people who are making *payments*
on a Dixie Chopper that they use once a week. Senseless.
Allan
fmiser via Mercedes w
> OK wrote:
> In talking to mower repair people and owners, I've been told
> that the ZTR mowers will cut your mowing time in half due to the
> agility,
I have heard that too. I call "false". For that to be true, one
half of my time on the mower would have to be spent NOT cutting.
Or maybe the
That ML would be a real pain to use to mow around things - turning radius
is too large. In talking to mower repair people and owners, I've been told
that the ZTR mowers will cut your mowing time in half due to the agility,
and that they will do a good job at full speed, where as the MTD front
engin
Reel mowers won't deal with sticks or heavy grass. I tried them for hand
mowing in spots that getting the mower into was difficult and found the results
unsatisfactory. If you've got a groomed lawn of real grass its probably okay
but heavy crabgrass plugs 'em up quick.
The ATV mowers only make
When I was a kid, I wanted to get a five or seven reel gang mower and tow it
behind a go-kart.
These days, if you have a lot of very smooth acreage to mow, and some kind of
ATV, a gang of wheel driven reels makes sense compared to buying an expensive
riding mower.
Mitch.
I had to go by the outdoor equipment shop yesterday to get a part for my
leaf blower and was looking at these zero turn mowing machines they had
there. The biggest one they had, a 60" Toro, was over $9k! I got to
thinking that jacking up a cheap ML with a 6" lift then putting a coupla
decks b
