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I hear ya. But also depends on what you're mowing. Like a level yard, sitting on a mower is great. But my backyard is far from level, and my back would take a royal asskicking on a garden tractor or my massey, that ache was piling up with time. That's why I started looking at standers.

That's a big part of it, yeh. Also u could get off it and mow while walking behind or beside it, that's real useful in certain parts of my property.

I like it

Go youtube "stand on vs sit down mowers", lots of vids out there. ;)

Ha, I love how these threads morph! But yeh anyways, I'm in the Chicago area. My lot and the guy next to me have the 2 smaller lots on our road, around 2.6 acres. The rest of the lots around here are around 5 acres. We're all on hilly terrain, with yards that slope down into floodplains...

All the landscapers around here are mainly on standers now.

They're great machines, but so pricey! Near double the cost of my Bradley. Scag, Toro, etc..all the commercial mowers are generally way too pricey, at least in terms of just for home use. I looked hard at various makes/models, read a bunch of reviews and watched youtube vids. Finally...

I got a Bradley 48"

I got a stander z-turn, that thing is awesome on hills, both going up them or sideways for that matter. Awesome mowers, them.

I did notice that in youtube vids, landscapers in the south using pine straw.

Latest harvest of sticks... Stuff already in the fire pit from the front yard, stuff in the sweeper from the backyard.

I got rid of that pole for dumping, and now just have a rope attached to it instead.

Mines an Agrifab, this one: Products > 44" Lawn Sweeper This an older pic, but here's what it picks up in the spring for me:

They do suck in longer grass, agreed. I mainly use it early spring, before the grass starts growing, but just after the turf loses some sogginess from thawing out.

Nah man, I'm on year 7 doing exactly that with that sweeper, it's fine. In fact, that's all I do with it...I hardly ever use it for leaves, for the reason you mention.

Yeh like I said earlier, big branches I pick up by hand, the sweeper grabs the smaller stuff. The sweeper doesn't have the lawn looking like a golf course, but good enough to look presentable.

$8500 USD?!! For residential use, for picking up sticks and dethatching? Well I think my Agrifab sweeper was like $300 and the CMP dethatcher was $500. Out of a budget of $8.5k, that leaves a whole lot for coke and hookers!

I'm on 2.6 acres. Each spring, I go around with the wheelbarrow picking up bigger branches. After that, I hook up the tow-behind lawn sweeper, which gets the smaller stuff adequately enough. Whatever's left over gets mowed and disappears that way.