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I am still confused with my wife's motive but she let me upgrade zero turns. Going from a 05 Kubota ZG23 to the 15 Scag turf tiger is night and day! I am a Kubota fan, but Scag is on point with their zero turns. I couldn't believe the difference in cut and overall durability the scag had over the Kubota. I went back and forth between hustler and scag, but couldn't be happier with my choice.
The lawns we cut are rarely less than 20" tall and almost always littered with misc debris. I use a mower like a bush hog.
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The last time I used my big tractor on a 7 acre property I ran a metal T post through a front tire and had to buy a new tire. This is a 4230 John Deere so the tires aren't cheap. Not 30 minutes later the pin came out of the high speed PTO and the shaft wrapped up in the hydraulic hoses ripping them out of the cylinder and shredding everything in its path. This happened around 4pm so I had to leave it all there over night. Three trips to town and 450.00 later I was back in business. So really what I get with the tractor is more expensive repairs.
The walk behind brush cutters work well but they don't do a good job and you have to go back over it all with a ZTR.
We maintain foreclosures for the most part and they are on a 14 day cutting cycle. In a year like the one we are having the grass needs cut every 3-5 days. The banks won't allow that so we end up cutting tall gnarly yards.
JAFO92 - makes sense. Personally, I have wanted a turf tiger for a while and it does appear to built like a tank. I hope it lasts a while seeing it for personal use only. After the last time "tinkering" with the Kubota I decided to pull the trigger.
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