Show your lawmmower.

Probably 'crushed" the seat safety switch...............

 

Ferris IS3100z 61" with 37HP Kawasaki gasser.

I keep about 10 acres mowed.

 

Here's one I bought right from an estate. Deck was slammed hard. $400 later for spindles and blades and alot of bfh and strait edge she cuts right. 2007 model with 230 hrs. Owned by a huge local farmer who owns nothing but green. It'll probably be flipped. I don't need a 48 inch gate crasher.

 

Orange to mow and orange to blow.

 

And there you go!

 

My buddy has 2 of the orange to mow, one of his also blows. Good machines, he's had good luck with them.

 

They have both been good to me so far, along with my saw. I was looking pretty hard at another saw last year but I didn't pull the trigger. Now with the back flair up I need to slow down a bit anyway.

 

"It's not how fast you mow, it's how well you mow fast!"

 

Well, as long as we're showing our lawn mowers, here are mine. The one on the left is a salvage (found it in the dumpster) and is a Snapper "Ninja" 6.50 horse. Ooooooooo! The one on the right is my trusty 5 year old Troy Bilt 6.75 horse, 21" self propelled mower.

I believe the Snapper will be made to function. It doesn't run on it's own, but I did pour some fuel down it's throat and it took off. Ran ruff as a cob for about 30 seconds, but it did run. So I'll have to learn how to take apart the carburetor and clean or possibly rebuild it.

Am I ashamed of posting push mowers? No way, they get the job done, at least the one for now. So it takes me about 3 to 3 and 1/2 hours to do about a half acre with a good number of obstacles (8 trees, several flower gardens, my soon to be privacy hedge, power pole, and well y'all get the general idea) The background is mostly Norway Spruce branches I brought into the garage today. The rest is oak, black birch, black locust, river birch, mimosa, and Rose of Sharon. (all branches) Figure about a half cord worth.

Don't get me wrong, I like all the riders that have been posted, but they're not for me. Maybe when I get old I'll get one, but for now a pusher will have to do.

Without further ado:

 

Here is pics of my 1991 JD STX 38, I bought it new, It was made in the midwest somewhere back then, it's a 12 horse Koehler engine. It's all solid american steel, no cupholder, no headlights, and a five speed standard transmission with a clutch, but it runs and runs....... And I can get parts the next town over at the local JD.

 

Here's my Hustler Mini Z 52" with 20 HP Kohler that I got fall of 2014. It is a 2006 model that I bought with 375 hours on it. It needed a wheel motor seal (which was "supposed" to be an external seal...ah, no. I had to take it off and completely apart to replace it) Good news was I was able to get a "seal and gasket" kit for only $40 and it really wasn't a bad repair to make. Better than spending $650 on a reman drive motor, and, now I know what my drive motors look like inside!
The only other work I have done other than maintenance is adding lights, adding a tach, and fabbing an "integrated" receiver hitch for it. The factory (optional) hitch which was a simple plate with a hole in it, and is no longer available... my dealer said it was $50, so I wouldn't have paid $50 for it anyways.
I had to remove the factory "wheelie bars" because of them digging into the bank when I was mowing the ditch, which caused me to be "stuck". So I wanted the hitch to be up high enough to not be the new low point in the back...which meant it had to be mounted into the "bumper plate"...it took me way to long to make, but it cost me nothing as I had the stuff layin around, and it has worked out very well.

 

Thanks for the info, I was told by the folks at the JD dealership that the black deck home depot models of today are no where near the quality of yesteryear. You can get twice the hp and auto transmission, lights, etc. for way less than what I paid in 1991.

 

I got rid of the Wheelhorse lawn tractor this spring because I wasn't using it - preferring my Craftsman push mower (self propelled, but it doesn't go as fast as I would like at times, so yeah, I push it). It takes me over an hour to do my 1/3 acre. Used to take longer but I have put in more shrub/perennial gardens so there is less to mow. Plus, I've filled in some areas between trees with mulch so I don't have to do the obstacle thing there as much. However, still have the huge rhodies out front, 4 old, old lilacs, a large forsythia, the shed, the willow tree, ornamental plum (with flower garden), crabapple (with flower garden), maple (with another large forsythia), the 500 gal propane tank, a rock wall, and the dog pen to mow around (and the dog pen - in). Oh, and the raised bed vegie gardens.

So yeah, I understand why it takes as long as it does to do your 1/2 acre.

 

I did feel like a yuppy sellout when I purchased my ZTR. I grew up mowing just over 1/2 acre on a hillside with a push mower, and kind of looked down on everyone that thought they needed a rider for their little suburban yards. When I bought my house it had a 1 acre yard with just under 20 trees/shrubs in it, and my wife (girlfriend at the time) made fun of me for wanting a rider. She grew up push mowing tiny suburban yard that probably took 30 minutes and didn't understand how much larger a full acre is. Then I borrowed my buddy's 24" riding mower for the first mow and it took me 4.5 hours to finish! She conceded that a rider was needed, but I despise mowing so much I decided a 40-48" cut rider wouldn't do, I needed something to get it done in under an hour. It was hard to spend the money on a ZTR, but at the same time I absolutely hate those 60 minutes I still spend every week mowing. I've even considered hiring one of my buddies that does landscaping, but for the cost of them I could buy a brand new ZTR every 2-3 years.

 

I used to have to mow the grass growing up. It was around 5 acres. It took 3 to 4 hours. I hated it.

Now that I have my own house I can mow, trim, and line trim in about an hour and 15. I really don't mind at all.

 

Mower and firewood!

 

Not mine...super cool though!

 

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