Re: Best finish mower setup- 3 hilly acres?

Posted by Matt on May 25, 2000 at 21:35:23 from (209.50.103.228):

In Reply to: Best finish mower setup- 3 hilly acres? posted by Jerry on May 25, 2000 at 06:11:26:

hehe, my 2 cents..

When we bought the property we have which has 3 acres finish mowed. It came with a the cub I have now with a woods belly mower. It used to take ol' retired guy about 6 hours to mow, and trim. The breaks on the cub are shot, and the lack of an over-run clutch means you dont' want to get close to anything of value.

So I bought a near zero turn 40" husqvarna. This was a bad, bad move. While it did cut my mow time down to 4 hours. The #%$#$% thing has some design problems (overlapping timed blades that tend to shear a pin and eat each other if you hit a stick or toy bigger than my pinky). So I bit the buttet an and bought a commercial rider. (BobCat, like a scag)

Now I cut my yard (60" deck) in 2 hours 10 mins. give me 10 mins with a push mower for the 2 places it won't fit, and another 10 mins with a weed eater in choice spots and I'm done.

For me the Cub even with a good finish mower didn't have the hp, speed or turning radius to get it done. You can't realistically cut in 3rd gear and 2nd just isn't quite fast enough for me. When I'm older, retired, etc. I'll enjoy taking 5 hours to myself to mow, but right now I couldn't handle it. (I have many, many obsticals, 35+ trees, house, pool, and 3 outbuildings to get around, not to mention garden, etc.).

You might also look at a gang-reel mower setup. This you can easily drag behind a cub and get good width and speed. Dunno depends on what your after. I was after speed and quality, but also wanted reliability, and ease of use.

The quality of cut with the Husqvarna zero turn is just a hair better than my commercial mower but I don't have it set up to mulch yet. But was way better than the woods deck on my cub, even with new/sharp blades.

I can confidently say, as long as I'm here, that the BobCat (Ransom) is probably the last mower I'll ever have to buy. (at least that's how I justified it to my wife :0) But it is just a mower. I still use the cub for everything else, draging trailors, mowing weeds, semi-bushhoggin. And have an H with a loader for any lifting moving that needs to be done.

Hope that helps.

-MD

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