Re: Calling Flying Belgian

Posted by JD Seller on August 25, 2019 at 17:25:09 from (208.126.198.213):

In Reply to: Re: Calling Flying Belgian posted by flying belgian on August 25, 2019 at 10:56:21:

I saw your earlier post of trading your current mower for a compact. I would suggest you get your wife involved really early with this if she is going to be doing the mowing. If you currently have a full size JD garden tractor that is all-wheel steer, the compact is a totally different mowing machine. Your current mower more than likely is more maneuverable and would also out mow a compact if your yard has many obstacles. The compacts are heavier too and will mark a yard up in wet springs. If your yard is wide open and fairly square then a compact maybe OK for you but if your yard is not either of those you may not have a happy wife when she is mowing with the compact.

I rarely sold a second compact with a deck,to anyone that mowed with them. Usually the second purchase was a compact with a loader and a separate machine to mow with, usually a zero turn if their yard was flat. Think long an hard about taking the cost of the compact mower deck and buy just a mower for the grass cutting.

The old adage about multipurpose machines not rally being good at any of them is kind of true for compacts tractors with loaders and mowers. For the loader work your going to want tires that have traction and ground clearance. For mowing your going to want tires that do not mire the yard and low clearance for mowing under trees. So different hats for different jobs.

P.S. Also try the mower deck out on any compact your looking at. JD has a good cutting mower deck. Many of the other brand compact decks will NOT do as good of a job mowing. Cut quality is important and loads of imported compact tractors have terrible decks when looking at cut quality.

I am just saying that if mowing is the majority of the machine's use, make sure that it does that the best. I had customers that loved their compacts that mowed with them. Others hated mowing with a compact over a large garden tractor type. Also the compact is heavier. So a 25 HP compact will not mow as fast as a 25 HP garden tractor.

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