Well JT, I took the plunge! Went for the 42in. Right size if not overkill for my property. Played on the hills after getting the feel of it. Quite responsive. My neighbors yard slopes gently at the bottom and gets steeper as you come up the hill to his house. I was able to find out its limitation by traversing his lawn and as I worked up the hill found about what I could handle without sliding sideways and forcing slip to stay parallel to the slope. One thing that is great is if you start to get a little squirrely traversing the slope, you can quickly 'zero turn' and point it down hill. Worked great!!! Got plenty of power to go up steeper than it can handle. I did make a gutsy charge straight up the hill and had a bit of a chill when the fronts came off the ground and thought I was going to tip backwards just before I crested. Definitely know my limit on climb now. I might actually play around with putting some weight across the front fender for a little more control... not sure how that will affect the side slope traversing so will be testing some more.
First pics...
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Neighbor was so impressed on how much more I can get to than his old craftsman rider and how much it will save push mowing. His wife even told him he should get one with out any prompting or him saying a word. You should've seen the grin on his face when he told me what she said... first a little context... he is 80 years young and she is probably 5 years behind him. She said that their son and wife will probably take over the house when they are gone and 'they will need a good mower'.
She even brought me out a beer when I came up to say hello! Good day to be a friendly neighbor. Love those two! :drink: