Thanks for all of your posts. Thanks for all of your help tsteahr you have been great. As I see it I really want to go with the high level equip ie... Ingersol, Kubota, Simplicity or John Deere< but there is always the cost factor (and I know that you get what you pay for). Is there really $2k difference between the Cub Cadet LTX 1050 and a JD x320? Asise from the trannie I do not believe so. Plus I still do not know what trannie is in the Cub it could be a K40, K46, K58 or it could even be an Loser 69???