Re: Update on mower trade!!

Posted by JimIA on August 01, 2015 at 06:30:04 from (208.74.246.171):

In Reply to: Update on mower trade!! posted by JDseller on July 31, 2015 at 19:42:29:

Like I said in your first post I completely understand why you did what you did. But with that said ZT mowers are really getting hammered down on here. Growing up in the 80s when I was being taught how to run a riding mower I was given STRICT orders on what to do and not to do and was told story after story of how so and so got killed in a lawn tractor roll over or so and so lost a their fingers in a mower deck and so on. So accidents as such were not invented with ZT mowers and like everything else you have to be smarter than the machine you are running. I know of two cases where gentleman were killed in lawn tractor roll overs, in both cases both were not using their head and were mowing in a way they shouldn't have. My own Grandfather who preached me safety tipped his mower twice on a bank in his yard. One time getting some good bruises. Since he passed we don't mow that bank except with a larger tractor with the wheels spread out and a Rhino mower to keep the weeds down. Not worth it. As of this moment I cannot think of a person killed in this area operating a ZT but can recall some injuries. ZTs are like everything else too. Use the correct machine for the correct application!!!!!! A smaller narrow machine with out a roll guard is not for a hilly area.

Also like I said in the previous post I switched to ZT last year and will not look back. Same mower deck as the rider and it cut 2 hours out of our mowing time! We have a lot of trees and obstacles so a ZT is a natural fit. We have one bank that I mow up a down with that isn't that large and as I also said I have my old trusty 712 AC if I do need to mow in areas not desirable with the ZT or if both my wife and I are mowing.

Also as I said in our mower sales are 9 out of 10 are ZTs. But with that said if a person is mowing a lot of banks as in your situation we show them a machine for their application. Actually the best machine we had for ditch banks we can no longer handle, New Holland had a great front cut machine that was AWD, that mower sticks to the hills like nothing I have never seen! But NH in their infinite wisdom decided to drop that supplier and go to another ending up with a inferior compact tractor and no commercial mower for us to offer.

So like I said everything has a place, find what works best for you, which is exactly what you did with your AWD lawn tractor purchase and is what I did with my ZT mower purchase.

Jim

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