Finish mowers pros or cons needed.

To break it down further:
Do I want spring belt idlers or manual belt adjust and hard or soft tires?

Also when you look at the pictures on the Internet a lot of the unnamed brands look just like the three Italian made mowers like:

First Choice / Sicma Sovema / LMC

I could be wrong though.

I do not want to make a bad decision here more experienced help need and appreciated

I use a john deere 272, which is a side dis-chg. 6' unit.

Likes-
1)Solid tires-no flats-just keep them greased!

2)Parts availability

Dislikes-

1)only two swivel wheels. resulting in a non full-floating mower. it scalps the ground constantly in the WV hills I live in.

2)ridgid lower lift links. resulting in scalping on twisty ground.

3)belt cover is bolted on-hard to get to belts.

4)non-removable discharge chute (side hits fruit trees and and would be hard to repair if it bent

(A friend of mine has a brand that has 2 hand tighten nuts that hold down a plastic belt cover and is full-floating-not sure of brand, but that will be my next one!(maroon in color))

Later, Pat

About the only time I find myself wishing for a rear-discharge is if it rains pretty steady for a week or so and the grass gets real high. At that point, the side discharge tends to clog. If KK made a rear-discharge, I'd be interested.

I know fellers holler that ye git what ye paid for but in finish mowers that theory is pure horse manure.

We have Woods, Bushhog, and Progressive at the farm. They all break down the same and cost is very expensive for parts for all 3.

I bought a Kingkutter for my own personal use and it has been trouble free for 2-3 years now. Not bad when you consider the KK cuts around 12 acres every week from March til November with teenager operators most of the time.

Whatever you buy I would recommend the spring tensioners

Tractor Supply has the KingKutter brand and a 6' was $1099 last spring when my son bought one.

It cost about $10-$12 a bottle. If you'll get a bottle of that stuff and put a quarter of the bottle into each tire you might not ever have to fix another mower tire.

We have a lot of spurs & briars in my neck of the woods. I always had flat trouble with my tractors and mowers until somebody told me about the Slime.

After I added the Slime I have never had another flat. I also add it to lowboy and stock trailer tires that used to go flat when the trailers were left sitting for long periods. It worked to stop leak downs for those tires too.

No matter what kind of equipment a feller uses it won't ever be any better than the maintenance.

I grease my KK with marine lube after every use and about ever 2-3 cuttings I break the shields away and power wash the rails and deck.