charles todd
Gold Member
- Joined
- Apr 18, 2010
- Messages
- 385
- Location
- Louisiana
- Tractor
- LS P7010C, Farmall 504, Allis Chalmers 180, Komatsu PC38UU-2
We shall see how it holds up. We mow about 4 acres weekly. Fairly flat land, though rough in places. Wife chose this one. I was going to go Kubota. She like it.That has Hydro Great ZT-2200 hydrostatic drive units. That wouldn't make a single mowing season here pushing my steep yard. Those value ZT units are likely the cats meow for folks living in the flat lands, but I happen to live on a cliff covered with grassand any tractor I buy has to be built with a drive system like a tank to even think about lasting.
For me to consider any ZT it would need to have the ZT-3400 drives as a minimum with spin on filters. Yours doesn't have filters, you have an internal screen that stops dogs and cats from getting past. That's a very light duty residential unit for service on level property with mild rolling slopes. Most all of my 3 acre grass is around a 2:1 slope. I side cut for the most part to take strain from my machines, but I have areas at near 1:1 slope that you can't possibly side mow. I eat light duty hydrostatic drives for breakfast on this hillside.![]()
Retiring our Snapper 350Z. 780 hrs. Deck has needed some welding, but still cuts. Though it had independent Hydragear pumps and Parker wheel motors, with a filter... Main reason I chose it in 2009. Will be for sale soon on Marketplace.
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