Re: Zero Turn Mowers

Posted by davpal on March 18, 2006 at 21:57:45 from (216.93.88.238):

In Reply to: Zero Turn Mowers posted by LumbrJakMan on March 17, 2006 at 09:37:28:

I see a lot of people here hyping their brand of mower but nobody really telling him what he wanted to know. If you are going to run a commercial mowing business you are going to need a zrt mower to be competitive with the competition. The mowers have good points and bad points and they all need to be gone over. First the good points, the speed , agility and the ability to mow around trees and poles, nice riding position is easy on your back for many more hours than a regular tractor, very realiable and built very heavy duty, purpose built for mowing and very good at it. Do a fine job too. Now the bad points, very loud machines and the motor is right behind you, use earplugs, they are sometimes almost too fast and dangerous, you can really come up on an obstacle very fast and get hurt, they can tear up the ground when you turn around because they are very heavy and the zrt feature makes them more prone to it, especially if it is wet out, you should have a ROP protection because if they tip over you are almost certainly dead, they do not cope with hills very well, they are heavy and tend to slide if the grass is wet, usually right into a pond or ditch, they can use a lot of gas because of the high horsepower, and because of the speed if you hit something like the barn, trees, car, you can really wreck stuff fast. My best advice is to keep a traditional tractor type mower and a push mower for the tricky stuff and use the zrt for the wide open flat spaces and for around the trees. I have a 52 inch toro commercial zrt with a kohler 23 horse in it and I love it but you have to respect the limitations. You are going to love your zrt, just be careful on it. Later.

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