heavy duty tractor/mower recommendations?

[GeneV]

One of the things I like so much about my new and old mowers is the reverse mower switch, all I have to do is start it and switch it to reverse mowing and thats it, it stays there and there are no buttons or levers or anything I have to do if I want to back up and keep mowing. All the other mowers I looked w/ locking differentials had these goofy levers and buttons you have to hit to back up, and (from what I understand) they would reset if you started going forward again.
Its a little thing that makes a bigger difference than you'd think.

On mine, you turn the key back one notch and push a button, and you could mow forward and reverse until you get off the seat. But I got sick of even that, so disabled the switch which controls it.

 

[Maast]

On mine, you turn the key back one notch and push a button, and you could mow forward and reverse until you get off the seat. But I got sick of even that, so disabled the switch which controls it.

I disabled the seat switch about 2 mins after I offloaded it at home. I get why it's there to keep idiots killing their kids/pets/etc - but it's a PITA if you have to lean way over on a slope, or stand up a bit to see better.

From what I read online is that on all the mowers if you disengage the PTO it turns off the reverse mowing and you have to hit the button/lever to re-engage it. At any rate it's just handy to not have to futz with it.

 

[dnw64]

From what I read online is that on all the mowers if you disengage the PTO it turns off the reverse mowing and you have to hit the button/lever to re-engage it.

Maybe the new(er) ones. On my 2006 Husky it's a physical key position and it stays that way until you shut it off.

 

[GeneV]

From what I read online is that on all the mowers if you disengage the PTO it turns off the reverse mowing and you have to hit the button/lever to re-engage it.

Yup, that's how it is. On mine it was a normally open switch which gets compressed when you press the reverse pedal, which in turn shuts off the pto unless you do that whole thing with turning the key and pushing the button. I just detached it from it's location, zip tied it out of the way somewhere else. Easy fix.