Best Commercial Mulching Mower for Nebraska

[Shughes717]

Why would he hate B&S?

Only Ric can answer that ?. We have had numerous debates over it in the past. I honestly dont like their lower end residential products myself. That has nothing to do with snapper pro or ferris products though. They are just as well made as every other commercial mower out there. Ric has never used snapper pro or ferris mowers, so he cant give an honest informed opinion.

 

[Ric]

 

[Conn0r33]

Seriously after watching that video it is the perfect lawn mower for me I think. It's just SOOOO much money. :smiley_aafz::frown:
If I got it from another dealer how much less realistically would you say the price might be?

 

[Ric]

Seriously after watching that video it is the perfect lawn mower for me I think. It's just SOOOO much money. :smiley_aafz::frown:
If I got it from another dealer how much less realistically would you say the price might be?

I don't know what your dealer is asking but here there getting $7495 for the 36" and of coarse if you want the larger decks the price goes up. Realistically and if the dealer is willing to deal he should be able to discount the price enough to save you at least the amount of the sales Tax which here would amount to like $525 and the last I knew Toro was offering a $300 off the price of there standers so you should be looking at a final price of somewhere between $6700 and $6800 OTD.

Yeah It is a lot of money but it's something that will give you a lot of years of service and it's basically maintenance free except for some grease points on the lift because it's all sealed bearings, change the oil filter and oil every 50 hrs and you got it made.

 

[Conn0r33]

I don't know what your dealer is asking but here there getting $7495 for the 36" and of coarse if you want the larger decks the price goes up. Realistically and if the dealer is willing to deal he should be able to discount the price enough to save you at least the amount of the sales Tax which here would amount to like $525 and the last I knew Toro was offering a $300 off the price of there standers so you should be looking at a final price of somewhere between $6700 and $6800 OTD.

Yeah It is a lot of money but it's something that will give you a lot of years of service and it's basically maintenance free except for some grease points on the lift because it's all sealed bearings, change the oil filter and oil every 50 hrs and you got it made.

Do you have to grease spots on a Walk Behind?

 

[Ric]

Do you have to grease spots on a Walk Behind?

It depends on the unit you buy. The more expensive units could be set up the sealed bearings on the front wheels and spindles but more than likely you'll have greasing to do on any unit some where. I never like the walk behind mowers. I ran the G 1336 and the cutting height was a PITA you gad to pull pins and remove the wheel and adjust spacers each time you wanted to change the cutting heights and you were a greasy mess when you got through. My advice if your thinking about a WB with a sulky I'd say forget it :laughing: You'll look like Chubby Checker doing the twist mowing a lawn.

 

[LoCo86]

It depends on the unit you buy. The more expensive units could be set up the sealed bearings on the front wheels and spindles but more than likely you'll have greasing to do on any unit some where. I never like the walk behind mowers. I ran the G 1336 and the cutting height was a PITA you gad to pull pins and remove the wheel and adjust spacers each time you wanted to change the cutting heights and you were a greasy mess when you got through. My advice if your thinking about a WB with a sulky I'd say forget it :laughing: You'll look like Chubby Checker doing the twist mowing a lawn.

If that's your experience with a walk behind then you don't know anything about walk behinds. You're just trying to discourage him because you had some cheap cub cadet. That's not fair to him. I have and use all three types of mower styles and for him a walk behind is the way to go. I've never seen a lawn crew without one so he's going to need one anyway even if he does expand.

 

[Ric]

If that's your experience with a walk behind then you don't know anything about walk behinds. You're just trying to discourage him because you had some cheap cub cadet. That's not fair to him. I have and use all three types of mower styles and for him a walk behind is the way to go. I've never seen a lawn crew without one so he's going to need one anyway even if he does expand.

With the Grandstand he has a walk behind, he has the best of both worlds.

 

[Conn0r33]

It depends on the unit you buy. The more expensive units could be set up the sealed bearings on the front wheels and spindles but more than likely you'll have greasing to do on any unit some where. I never like the walk behind mowers. I ran the G 1336 and the cutting height was a PITA you gad to pull pins and remove the wheel and adjust spacers each time you wanted to change the cutting heights and you were a greasy mess when you got through. My advice if your thinking about a WB with a sulky I'd say forget it :laughing: You'll look like Chubby Checker doing the twist mowing a lawn.

That's only with a fixed deck. Check out snapper pro's SW20 or 30 or Scag's V-Ride the floating decks because it's very easy to change cutting height with a floating deck.

 

[Ric]

That's only with a fixed deck. Check out snapper pro's SW20 or 30 or Scag's V-Ride the floating decks because it's very easy to change cutting height with a floating deck.

Yeah your right and I know that, it's like I said It depends on the unit you buy. The more expensive units could be set up the sealed bearings on the front wheels and spindles but more than likely you'll have greasing to do on any unit some where. The good units or walk behind mowers with all the fun bells and whistles will cost close to the price of the Grandstand and for the money difference there's no choice when I can have the best of both worlds with the GS and that's the reason I sold the G 1336.

You ask a question of another forum member here about Why would he hate B&S? Well let me answer. I've been mowing lawns for a good number of years and I've had plenty of experience with B&S stuff/engines over the years and I've replaced a lot of B&S stuff/ engines in that time so I know about the quality of there equipment and it hasn't changed. My last and final experience with B&S was a $600 electric start push mower that the wife used to mow with when she was helping me with the business.

She came to and asked to have the blade changed so I turned the mower up and I pulled the bolt to take off the blade and what happens.....a piece of the adapter plate falls off so I pulled the rest of the plate because I knew it would have to be replaced and what do I find..... The shear pin had sheared about half of the crankshaft off so I'm sitting here with a $600 mower that I end up throwing in the trash. Quality equipment and B&S shouldn't be used in the same sentence.

Now am I going to buy my mower like Snapper that went belly up and was and purchased by B&S... I don't think so. I mean really there already selling the Snapper push mower and Lawn tractors at Walmart and btw don't let anyone start talking about the B&S VG engine and I have to admit it's a good engine as it should be, problem is the engine isn't made by B&S it's made by Daihatsu. B&S
built them a plant in Japan in exchange for marketing rights for the motor here in this country, that's the reason it's a good engine. Sorry about the Rant Conner