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Lawn tractor
I just bought a new house on 3.7 acres of land. We need to purchase a
new tractor to mow about 2-2.5 acres of it, as well as pull a cart. There is a half acre grove of trees that needs to be mowed and some reasonable size hills. The last owner offered to sell us a 2 year old yard machines 17hp 42" cut for $900. I am pretty sure this is not enough mower for the job and I think she is asking to much. Am I right? So... the hunt begins. We have from $1500 to $2500 MAX, I really want a 48" cut. My hunt has lead me to Sears Craftman mowers. I was looking at model 27324 a 25hp 48" automatic with cruise control and B&S engine. This would cost after tax and delivery $2550. After reading some of the lawn tractor threads here I see that craftsman may not be all that I thought. Is the tractor I am looking at going to hack it? Any ideas on tractors that will do the job and are within my price range that would be a better choice? Thanks in advance for all the advice! Dan |
Lawn tractor
I've got a Craftsman tractor with an 18 HP Kohler engine and I use it to
cut about 7 acres of prairie grass. It has more than enough power but the 48" deck is a bummer. I think almost all of the 48" decks use three blades and because of the way they are placed in the deck housing they will not give a clean cut when the prairie grass gets over about 10" or when you make a turn. I've decided to get another tractor with a 42" cut because the blades are longer and I'm sure it will give me a better cut, especially when you turn a corner. Almost all of the tractors today use Briggs engines, and probably the same transmissions, so paying a thousand dollars more for a brand name probably isn't worth it. I'll buy the Sears brand again. Bill Bluetobb wrote: I just bought a new house on 3.7 acres of land. We need to purchase a new tractor to mow about 2-2.5 acres of it, as well as pull a cart. There is a half acre grove of trees that needs to be mowed and some reasonable size hills. The last owner offered to sell us a 2 year old yard machines 17hp 42" cut for $900. I am pretty sure this is not enough mower for the job and I think she is asking to much. Am I right? So... the hunt begins. We have from $1500 to $2500 MAX, I really want a 48" cut. My hunt has lead me to Sears Craftman mowers. I was looking at model 27324 a 25hp 48" automatic with cruise control and B&S engine. This would cost after tax and delivery $2550. After reading some of the lawn tractor threads here I see that craftsman may not be all that I thought. Is the tractor I am looking at going to hack it? Any ideas on tractors that will do the job and are within my price range that would be a better choice? Thanks in advance for all the advice! Dan |
Lawn tractor
In article , Bluetobb
wrote: I also recently purchased a new house, but on 3.8 acres with more than 3 acres to cut (sloped at that). I similarly went through the search process. I would recommend a trip to Home Depot to look at the John Deere 100 series tractors. You can easily get a 48" cut tractor for that budget. Good luck. I just bought a new house on 3.7 acres of land. We need to purchase a new tractor to mow about 2-2.5 acres of it, as well as pull a cart. There is a half acre grove of trees that needs to be mowed and some reasonable size hills. The last owner offered to sell us a 2 year old yard machines 17hp 42" cut for $900. I am pretty sure this is not enough mower for the job and I think she is asking to much. Am I right? So... the hunt begins. We have from $1500 to $2500 MAX, I really want a 48" cut. My hunt has lead me to Sears Craftman mowers. I was looking at model 27324 a 25hp 48" automatic with cruise control and B&S engine. This would cost after tax and delivery $2550. After reading some of the lawn tractor threads here I see that craftsman may not be all that I thought. Is the tractor I am looking at going to hack it? Any ideas on tractors that will do the job and are within my price range that would be a better choice? -- --Chip remove dots in prefix to fix email address -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 80,000 Newsgroups - 16 Different Servers! =----- |
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