DK35vince
Super Member
I mow an 8 acre lawn.I was mowing my yard with my Wheel Horse 314-8 for probably 17 years, at 2 hours each session. Second gear was too slow for me, 3rd was too fast! I had a cyclone rake for it for leaf duty.
Finally bought a Toro Timecutter HD zero turn in 2018 and cut my mowing time down to 45 minutes. Then bought the bagger kit that fall after selling the Cyclone Rake. That definitely helped speed up fall cleanup.
I used to mow at a local property using the owner’s John Deere SCUT. He had a loader on it, 72” mower, and ballast box full of rocks. Quite the unwieldy piece of equipment for the size of the place and amount of obstacles. I ended up removing the ballast box and loader just to make it more maneuverable. Plus it didn’t tear stuff up so bad. When I bought my Massey GC2410, I decided not to get a mower deck based on experience with the JD SCUT.
since my dad died in 2022, I’ve been hauling my Toro up there every week to mow their lawn. He had a JD X380 to mow with. I don’t even take the snow blower off of it now. I can zip around their lawn and be done in an hour versus 2 on the tractor. And it looks better when I’m done.
I’ll never go back to tractor mowing again.
For years I mowed it with my 35 hp compact tractor with an 84" rear mount finish mower.
10 or 11 years ago I bought a 35 hp, 72" commercial zero turn.
Cut an hour from my mowing time.
Still amazes me how fast it will mow.