Sorry I have taken so long to get back to this post, I have been very busy recently with various farm things.
And I still need to take some pics of it
But I am very impressed with this thing.
The first thing I noticed was the size of it. It is built like a tank. There is no sheet steel on it
The Honda engine is very smooth and quiet. It has a lot of power.
This is one of the first HST's I have had and am very impressed with it. I like being able to shuttle forwards and backwards under trees really easily. I have to rember to change gear now in the other tractors.
Everthing on this machine is electric! You don't have to pull any lever at all.
The collector on the back picks up all of the grass, even when it is soaking wet. It am yet to get it clogged up. It also leaves very nice stripes on the lawn.
The only thing you have to remember with the collector brush on the back is to lift it up every time you go into reverse or drive over somewhere you have allready collected and rolled. Otherwise it scarrifies it
All you have to do is flick one switch on the dash and it comes up though.
The deck cuts really cleanly and also does a good job on much rougher grass. It will mow 1' high rough field grass and collect it all up and leave it looking like a lawn.
And when you come to empty it you just back up to the area and press another button and it dumps it.
The mower is made in the UK, which is nice.
As for price, we bought it with 346 hours on the clock for £2200 ($4350)
New they are about £5000 ($9930)
This might seem expensive but lawn mowers and tractors in general are a lot more expensive in the UK.
For example a John Deere X748 lists at about
$13,379.00 (£6738) in the US.
In the UK the same model goes for £12000 ($23,824 )
