Zero turn shopping is a real mental drain.....

At the pothole farm.
When Kenis almost ran me over on an ATV.
Never touched Fireball again!!
Good times!!

 

Tell her you bought something, but not another tornado siren.

If she isn't happy about it, you can fab me up a fire pit and I'll buy it to offset a tiny bit of the new mower cost.

 

I'm just going to let her answer the door. She can sign for it.
Won't come with anything other than a delivery receipt. That was a requirement for purchase.
Ring ring...... hello..... where do you want it?
Not really pulling the wool over anyone.

What did you have in mind? Any sketches?

 

My grandson is the first one on it!
Maybe I can sit on it tomorrow....

 

Looks like you have some mowing help in the works! It won't be long... they sure grow up fast.

 

Yes they do! Problem is that I think I'm getting older even faster.

 

^^^^^^^right here^^^^^^

 

I could whip up a quick sketch. Nothing complicated.

Mower looks great!

 

That seat is in for a surprise tomorrow...lol

 

Knobs gonna spin like a slot machine!!

 

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I'll take a look for sure.

 

Well, seems like she took it ok, huh?!

 

Hustler by Excel is what I used to run when I did property maintenance back some moons ago. Series was a 4500 with a 72" deck and 38hp Kubota diesel. I cut industrial parks, municipal property - city parks and ball fields, churches and cemetery's and a few state parks.

 

I've had great luck with Hustler too, both at home and work

 

I can't speak for the new ones. But the ones I had were in the multiple thousands of hours before hydraulic hoses started to leak. I had several of the pumps rebuilt and that took north of 6,000 or so hours. I traded them in at 10,000 hours. No real issues to speak of. Once a year for the spindle bearing and belts here and there.

 

So far so good!

 

The prices for anything saying diesel will make your knees buckle.

 

I bought a Hustler Diesel Z 72" at work 5-6 years back, $14k IIRC, it's been a great machine, really only had one failure, the electric clutch died, but it was still under warranty (although I found out later that Hustler made the dealer eat it!)

 

All of the diesel mowers I saw were all north of $20k.

 

So I was able to test drive it. It's spooky fast and makes me nervous. At half throttle I was chasing the dog around.
Going to mow later today and honestly I'm apprehensive About it.