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re: Zero Turn Recs for Hills/Slopes
Posted on 3/24/21 at 11:41 am to footballdude
Posted on 3/24/21 at 11:41 am to footballdude
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Worst advice posted on this site today.
I gave a reasonable example on why it was overkill for less than an acre. Would you like to provide an example to the contrary? Why the additional cost is worth it?
In my case, price of mower in 2011, $2856.70. Not counting consumables like blades, I had to replace one spindle, that may or may not have failed on a commercial deck. That brings my cost to $3006.70 for 268 hrs over 10 years, or $11.21 an hour, cost to operate. My deck is still in great shape, shows no signs of impending failure. I'd imagine that the pumps will fail before the deck.
The commercial variant was about $1k more and I thought long and hard about it. Until my landscaper friend told me it was overkill for residential lawns. At this point, I do not regret the purchase and would probably do it again.
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Posted on 3/24/21 at 3:44 pm to slacker130
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Would you like to provide an example to the contrary?
Example: I inherited a Craftsman ZTR when I bought my current house. It has a stamped deck. The outer lips are bent to shite, broken off and any minor impact crinkles it like tin foil. I've had to take it off and beat it to get sections that had gone far enough to stop the blades back into position.
While the whole mower is a POS, the deck is the biggest offender and the main reason I am looking at buying a new one with a COMMERCIAL deck.
I think of it like tires on a vehicle. It's the one part of the machine that actually touches the ground, so to quality matters.
This post was edited on 3/24/21 at 3:47 pm
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