scarg
Bronze Member
One of the most common questions in the forum is comparing the 422 to the 425-
Today i am bush hogging my hill which is about 12-14 acres and has some gentle long inclines and some pretty steep stuff.
As i lug my way up even the smallest incline with the bush hog running i often wonder what difference that 3 hp would make while mowing this area. The 422 is SEVERLY underpowered when mowing anything other than a flat area.
I have to make many many many trips for long distances with the PTO off in order to crawl up some portions of the hill just so that i can mow down hill.
It would be a great test to have someone with a relatively new PT 425 come with their machine with 48" brush cutter and run in the same area to see what the differences are apples to apples.
It would be very interesting to see what differences if any there truly are in this application.
In my mind i always think that i should have spent the extra dough but cannot really know and would not want to spend the extra for no additional power.
Any thoughts???
Surely there are enough people in the forum to fund a day trip for someone to compare the two models somewhere where there is a hill and some grass.......
Today i am bush hogging my hill which is about 12-14 acres and has some gentle long inclines and some pretty steep stuff.
As i lug my way up even the smallest incline with the bush hog running i often wonder what difference that 3 hp would make while mowing this area. The 422 is SEVERLY underpowered when mowing anything other than a flat area.
I have to make many many many trips for long distances with the PTO off in order to crawl up some portions of the hill just so that i can mow down hill.
It would be a great test to have someone with a relatively new PT 425 come with their machine with 48" brush cutter and run in the same area to see what the differences are apples to apples.
It would be very interesting to see what differences if any there truly are in this application.
In my mind i always think that i should have spent the extra dough but cannot really know and would not want to spend the extra for no additional power.
Any thoughts???
Surely there are enough people in the forum to fund a day trip for someone to compare the two models somewhere where there is a hill and some grass.......