Thank you for the insights, gentlemen. You have a wealth of knowledge.
When I decided that the DR walk-behind wasn't a mowing tool that I could use when my physical abilities declined and I started looking for something else that would handle the slopes and would also be easy/safe enough for my wife to use I found three slope mowing solutions that I had no previous knowledge of:
- The Ventrac, Steiner, Power Trac multi-tool tractors.
- Remote controlled single-use slope mowers.
- Ride-on single-use slope mowers like the Orec, Grillo, AS-Motor and Canycom.
The reasons that I started this thread were:
- Ask if there were any other slope mowing technologies that I hadn't unearthed in my Internet research, and;
- Ask if anyone has North American experience with the AS-Motor 940 Sherpa to get an idea about dealer/distributor support.
The thing about Internet forums is that someone might response to this thread some long time into the future, but right now nobody has suggested some other mowing solution that was unknown to me. I guess that shows that you really can find everything on the Internet (I'm starting to forget the days when we had to go to a bank, or travel agent or a library to get things done or find information). We haven't heard from anyone with direct North American knowledge of the available ride-on slope mowers, so probably users of those tools aren't participants in a tractor forum. I'll ask the distributor to put me in touch with some customers directly.
I can find no RC mowers that will cut at least a three foot wide swath at a price comparable to machines that need the operator on board, so for now they are not a viable solution.
If we did not have our UTV with front mounted bucket, pallet forks and snow blade accessories (and had the experience of such a tool), I'd buy one of the Ventrac, Steiner, Power Trac solutions. On a property like ours we really need something to move stuff around (tow the trailer full of firewood, use the pallet forks to bring the generator up from the "barn" when a storm takes the power out, use the bucket to move mulch, wood chips or gravel from the piles in our "utility area" to where they are needed). I would never have bought a snow blade, since we moved here to escape the snow, but it came with the machine and I have used it once to clear our dead-end road for all the neighbours from the "once-in-a-decade" snowfall.
Since we have the UTV I'm leaning towards the ride-on brushmower as the solution. I had thought that the Canycom CMX227 was the one to get, because it was available in Canada, but then I sat on it and discovered the awkward operating position. So until I can drive (or at least sit on) the AS-Motor Sherpa I'm not going to buy one.
Again, thank you everyone for your input.
Chris
When I decided that the DR walk-behind wasn't a mowing tool that I could use when my physical abilities declined and I started looking for something else that would handle the slopes and would also be easy/safe enough for my wife to use I found three slope mowing solutions that I had no previous knowledge of:
- The Ventrac, Steiner, Power Trac multi-tool tractors.
- Remote controlled single-use slope mowers.
- Ride-on single-use slope mowers like the Orec, Grillo, AS-Motor and Canycom.
The reasons that I started this thread were:
- Ask if there were any other slope mowing technologies that I hadn't unearthed in my Internet research, and;
- Ask if anyone has North American experience with the AS-Motor 940 Sherpa to get an idea about dealer/distributor support.
The thing about Internet forums is that someone might response to this thread some long time into the future, but right now nobody has suggested some other mowing solution that was unknown to me. I guess that shows that you really can find everything on the Internet (I'm starting to forget the days when we had to go to a bank, or travel agent or a library to get things done or find information). We haven't heard from anyone with direct North American knowledge of the available ride-on slope mowers, so probably users of those tools aren't participants in a tractor forum. I'll ask the distributor to put me in touch with some customers directly.
I can find no RC mowers that will cut at least a three foot wide swath at a price comparable to machines that need the operator on board, so for now they are not a viable solution.
If we did not have our UTV with front mounted bucket, pallet forks and snow blade accessories (and had the experience of such a tool), I'd buy one of the Ventrac, Steiner, Power Trac solutions. On a property like ours we really need something to move stuff around (tow the trailer full of firewood, use the pallet forks to bring the generator up from the "barn" when a storm takes the power out, use the bucket to move mulch, wood chips or gravel from the piles in our "utility area" to where they are needed). I would never have bought a snow blade, since we moved here to escape the snow, but it came with the machine and I have used it once to clear our dead-end road for all the neighbours from the "once-in-a-decade" snowfall.
Since we have the UTV I'm leaning towards the ride-on brushmower as the solution. I had thought that the Canycom CMX227 was the one to get, because it was available in Canada, but then I sat on it and discovered the awkward operating position. So until I can drive (or at least sit on) the AS-Motor Sherpa I'm not going to buy one.
Again, thank you everyone for your input.
Chris
