Posting on here under my husbands log on to get an Idea of what reaction to expect when he returns home.
Basically he is out of the country due to a very sick family member that needs assistance, this leaves me home with more chores than one can imagine. So I started to try and minimize them and maximize efficiency for what was left.
For this particular chore grass and field mowing I decided to stop cutting the field which drops me down to about 5 acres of yard around the house. Seems to me using the tractor and that huge rear attach mower is great for everything but without the big field it seemed a little excessive and cumbersome just cutting the yard. After talking with him on the phone he suggested that I do some research and buy a “decent quality” zero turn and use it till he gets back which for now is undetermined.
Anyway this leads to my concern as I am not nearly as mechanically inclined or as savvy at decifering the things that make one machine better than the next and balancing the cost into this type of decision.
So after looking at a few different mowers I settled on a Gravely Pro Turn with a 60 inch cutting deck, a Kawasaki engine that seemed to be built fairly well. It just looked like it was built a bit better than the others I looked at and when getting on or off nothing seemed to wobble, bend or shake like many of the others did. It also had some options that I thought would make life better like a suspension seat and I feel more confident having the roll over bar as this thing isn’t like steering any of our tractors. There is more that made my sister ( she went along and tried to help decipher and decide) and I decide to buy this one over the others we looked at but the question I have here is for the cost, performance and build quality will I be getting the look of “what the hell did you buy” or the “ wow honey you picked a real good mower” when he finally gets back home?
Thanks
Janet
Basically he is out of the country due to a very sick family member that needs assistance, this leaves me home with more chores than one can imagine. So I started to try and minimize them and maximize efficiency for what was left.
For this particular chore grass and field mowing I decided to stop cutting the field which drops me down to about 5 acres of yard around the house. Seems to me using the tractor and that huge rear attach mower is great for everything but without the big field it seemed a little excessive and cumbersome just cutting the yard. After talking with him on the phone he suggested that I do some research and buy a “decent quality” zero turn and use it till he gets back which for now is undetermined.
Anyway this leads to my concern as I am not nearly as mechanically inclined or as savvy at decifering the things that make one machine better than the next and balancing the cost into this type of decision.
So after looking at a few different mowers I settled on a Gravely Pro Turn with a 60 inch cutting deck, a Kawasaki engine that seemed to be built fairly well. It just looked like it was built a bit better than the others I looked at and when getting on or off nothing seemed to wobble, bend or shake like many of the others did. It also had some options that I thought would make life better like a suspension seat and I feel more confident having the roll over bar as this thing isn’t like steering any of our tractors. There is more that made my sister ( she went along and tried to help decipher and decide) and I decide to buy this one over the others we looked at but the question I have here is for the cost, performance and build quality will I be getting the look of “what the hell did you buy” or the “ wow honey you picked a real good mower” when he finally gets back home?
Thanks
Janet