Re: garden tractor purchase

Posted by davpal on April 01, 2007 at 14:41:39 from (216.93.120.169):

In Reply to: garden tractor purchase posted by My name was reserved on April 01, 2007 at 07:52:56:

The times are a changing when it comes to lawn and garden equipment. Stuff is much more specialized for what the task is then ever before. It depends on how big your garden is and if you plan on actually mowing grass with this said mower. I wouldn't even consider spending $7000 dollars for a modern garden tractor if I was going to be mowing lawn. Zero radius mowers have left the traditional lawn tractor miles behind in the dust. If you have an $8000 dollar budget, I would get a 62 inch Toro, Yazoo, Hustler, Lexmark, Land pride, Tiger, etc zero radius mower for the lawn and spend about $6200 dollars. Now go and take the extra $1800 and get a Ford N tractor with a new 6 ft disk from TSC and maybe a ford cultivator and you will have a b eautiful seedbed. I can go over a garden with my ford and have it dug down a foot deep in a few passes and ready to plant. I just think a traditional garden tractor is a joke for mowing or doing tillage. They are too big and slow to mow effectivly and are too small and light to do tillage with. Zero Radius mowers pay for themselves in time they give back to you. I used to take 2 1/2 hours to mow with 2 big cub cadet mowers alternating mowers. Now I do the same yard in 45 minutes with a Big Toro Z master. That is over 1 1/2 hours saved each mowing and if I mow 60 times a year that is 80 saved hours where I can put more time in on my job making overtime money or improving the household. Even if you don't have room to store the ford you may consider the zero radius mower and a nice troy built rear tine tiller. Good luck.

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