Thread: Ride on Mowers....I want buy one.

JOHN DEERE.......300 MILLION AMERICANS, LITIGIOUS AMERICANS CANT WRONG.....MINES A RIPPER, 4 WHEEL STEER

If you have long tough grass to cut, DON'T buy a mower that has bar blades, you will forever be stalling and replacing drive belts, get a mower with the large disk (flywheel inertia) with 2 or 4 blades around the circumference.
If you will be mowing on slopes with wet grass (slippery), go for a solid axle or you will be sliding and getting bogged.
Go for a mower that doesn't have a gear box (auto or not), go for a mower with one pedal that you push forward to go forward and push back to go back, with your foot.
I have just described a COX Stockman, had mine 11 years now, have a 1 acre block covered with long tufty grass, blackberry, razor grass, bracken, lots of fallen twigs, rocks, in other words rough as guts and the back section is steep as well.
Never had a breakdown, on my second battery, neighbour next door asked what mine was like, told him, his missus said no she liked the pretty green one.
First day he used it burnt and snapped the drive belt on the many creeper vines which abound here, wrapped around those useless bar blades, he borrowed mine and had the job done in an hour, Go Cox, even if you get a good second hand one, Regards Frank.

Originally Posted by Tank

If you have long tough grass to cut, DON'T buy a mower that has bar blades, you will forever be stalling and replacing drive belts, get a mower with the large disk (flywheel inertia) with 2 or 4 blades around the circumference.
If you will be mowing on slopes with wet grass (slippery), go for a solid axle or you will be sliding and getting bogged.
Go for a mower that doesn't have a gear box (auto or not), go for a mower with one pedal that you push forward to go forward and push back to go back, with your foot.
I have just described a COX Stockman,

Sounds just like a Greenfield too
My old 1987 12/32 Anniversary (with a 17hp donk) gets a good workout without too much complaint.

It's early days yet as I haven't owned our Husqvarna R13C for long, but I love this one for being able to cut close around trees and to get under bushes, the hydrostatic transmission is way ahead of the gearbox on our previous 38" MTD and the Husqvarna's turning circle makes the MTD look stupid.

Reversing a trailer is so easy with this mower as it has articulated steering.



The Con; The lack of brakes on the front axle is down right dangerous and is on the top of the list to be modified. There has been some skid mark's left behind in more ways than one!
Another modification to be done is a power feed from the battery for the trailer this is to run a spray unit for watering the young trees.
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