Looks like I'm in the market for a riding mower. Any opinions? Nothing too large - 42", 19-20hp, etc. Brands - John Deere, Cub Cadet, Ariens, etc? Thanks.
Riding Lawn Mowers
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Just got my Craftsman YT4000 yesterday. 24hp, 42" cut, 4 deck rollers, I got the 6 speed manual due to my yard is hilly/uneven. Was a nice cut, pretty powerful. I had done about 3 months of research, this came out to be the best deal for what I wanted, price, warranty, features.
Our craftsman has always worked very well but it has needed a fair amount of maintenance over the years.
why not? a couple of acres would take forever on a push mower
i never remember it taking that long.
tons of great deals on craiglist right now.....around here anyways
I seriously want some of what you are smoking. It must be freakin' awesome!!
get a few goats
My house came with a Craftsman tractor w/ 42" mower deck, 6 speed, bagger setup.......it makes mowing the lawn less miserable. It seems to work pretty well.
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How big is your lawn?
I bought a SCAG freedom Z 2yrs ago and I love it. Next to marrying my wife it's the best decision I've ever made.
Cut my mowing time from 4hrs to about 1.5hrs.
I've worked on farms mowing. I went through 2 mowers, 1-husquarvan and 1-sears brand at my house alone.
How much are you looking to spend?
I bought a SCAG freedom Z 2yrs ago and I love it. Next to marrying my wife it's the best decision I've ever made.
Cut my mowing time from 4hrs to about 1.5hrs.
I've worked on farms mowing. I went through 2 mowers, 1-husquarvan and 1-sears brand at my house alone.
How much are you looking to spend?
Good question. Riding mowers seem are a generally bad idea.
Really?
I have a yard that is over an acre. It would take my close to 4 hrs to mow my yard with a push mower and with a riding mower I cut that time to just under and hour. The cutting deck is twice as wide and the engine is more than twice as powerful and it can go faster than I can walk/push.
Gives me more time to hang out with my family, ride my bike, drink beer, etc.
x2. Growing up my folks had around an acre. A hilly acre. Cutting it with a push mower took about 6 hours. Cutting it with a riding mower would take less than a third of that time.
Takes less time, barks tree trunks, runs over a bunch of stuff that you might go around with a push mower, tends to create ruts, uses more gas and oil, provides less exercise, costs more to maintain and store. Try replacing some lawn with garden.
Don't you have some kids you need to tell to get off your lawn or something?
less time cutting grass = more time to ride bikes.
Assuming that JBP still rides bikes
I tell you whut....
i'll see if i can find a picture of our first house in virginia.....I seriously want some of what you are smoking. It must be freakin' awesome!!
I was talking one day about wanting maybe a few chickens for eggs. This guy tried to convince me to keep free range chickens in a mobile pen that you just move over a bit every day and said his buddy does it and the yard is manicured perfect. I declined that offer.
Growing up my parents made me use a manual lawn mower. My dad would always tell me to mow the lawn every time I asked him to go for a ride. So instead of walking it, I just ran. It turned out to be a good warmup, so by the time my friends arrived for the ride, I was ready to go. The mower did a great job actually especially if you didn't let the lawn get too long. We got it sharpened up in Amish country.
But yeah, riding lawn mower - personally one of the last things I would ever want. They seem incredibly wasteful in their singular purpose, poor reliability, noise, cost and cost of maintenance.
Something like this but much older.
But yeah, riding lawn mower - personally one of the last things I would ever want. They seem incredibly wasteful in their singular purpose, poor reliability, noise, cost and cost of maintenance.
Something like this but much older.
Find a used Locke mower - preferably one with side wings on it........My cousins used one for years for their lawnmowing/landscape business. The thing worked great and was walk behind. It was expensive as hell to get the reel blades sharpened though. But it ran great, was relatively quiet and could cut huge wide swaths of lawn in no-time!
that then needs weeding?
Ridemonkey...where you ask a question and it gets derailed into a debate of the righteous before it ever gets answered.
I've had awful luck with Cub Cadet. Had a Series 2000 with a 48in mower deck that always gave me problems for several years. Toro is a great brand--just picked up one of their 4-stroke weed eaters. I highly recommend those. John Deere is just OK....as much as their reputation precedes them, I had an LT115 that had a few welds fail on the engine mount after a few seasons.
I've had awful luck with Cub Cadet. Had a Series 2000 with a 48in mower deck that always gave me problems for several years. Toro is a great brand--just picked up one of their 4-stroke weed eaters. I highly recommend those. John Deere is just OK....as much as their reputation precedes them, I had an LT115 that had a few welds fail on the engine mount after a few seasons.
that's what kids are for.
cutting grass is a chore. yea, its great that you can get some exercise with a pushmower, but if I had a lawn large enough to justify a riding mower, I'd go for it so I could save the time, enabling me to move on to the things I actually enjoy doing.
I hope all those that are questioning the riding lawn mower all walk to work. Riding in a car is just righteous.
I just bought this mower. I like it because I can run behind it. The more you push the handle, the faster it goes. I returned a crapsman mower the other day that I used once. The thing was like a turtle. I can mow my yard in a 1/2 hour with this bitch. But I do run or jog behind it. Takes the rest of the fools like 2 hours to do theirs. Unmotivated lazy fvckers.
http://www.toro.com/home/mowers/recycler/20333.html
http://www.toro.com/home/mowers/recycler/20333.html
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Every time I need a laugh for the rest of the week, I'm going to open this thread.
i skip.
In all honesty he didn't give them much to work with.Ridemonkey...where you ask a question and it gets derailed into a debate of the righteous before it ever gets answered.
I've had awful luck with Cub Cadet. Had a Series 2000 with a 48in mower deck that always gave me problems for several years. Toro is a great brand--just picked up one of their 4-stroke weed eaters. I highly recommend those. John Deere is just OK....as much as their reputation precedes them, I had an LT115 that had a few welds fail on the engine mount after a few seasons.
My hilly, tree filled, 3 acres of grass would be crazy to push mow.
So let 2.5 acres go wild.
I have a small yard, so does my neighbor. I spend an hour a week push mowing. My neighbor spends a half hour a week mowing on his rider and about 4 hours a week trying to keep it running. It makes me laugh. If my yard was bigger I would definitely have a riding mower. Had to push mow 1.5+ hilly acres as a kid with a tiny 18" mower. It is my most dreaded chore.
Now that is something I would do. Grass sucks, trees and trails!
I would say we actively use 2.5 acres of it. The other .5 I don't mow that often.
It's easier to keep track of my dogs and they like to run so it makes that easier plus my daughter rides her power wheels all over the place we have large family picnics and play baseball.... I could go on.
The other 6acres are tree covered.
My house is the one with the red box.
