Buy Rogue with kaw

[blong579]

Looking at mowers and found a local dealer offering a new 61 inch Rogue with a kaw fx850v for $10,000. I'm thinking hard about buying it. It is more mower than I need but he quoted $9000 for the maverick HD with a kaw and 54 deck. Seems like a worth wild jump for the price. I don't have any hills and my exmark is about ready to be replaced. What's your thoughts on the mower, brand, and price. Personal use. 4 acers.

 

[slomo]

Makes it $11,000+ out the door. You can buy several years of lawn crew service where they mow it for you. You don't have to cut any grass, sweat all over yourself in the summer, maintain that monster machine and store it. Fuel and so on........ You sit on the couch drinking a cold one watching the game.

 

[blong579]

Makes it $11,000+ out the door. You can buy several years of lawn crew service where they mow it for you. You don't have to cut any grass, sweat all over yourself in the summer, maintain that monster machine and store it. Fuel and so on........ You sit on the couch drinking a cold one watching the game.

It's 10 out the door with cash but I do get your point. I still have a hard time paying someone to change my oil and I hate that job. Cutting grass is not something we really mind. My wife works in an office with no windows for 12 hours a day so she enjoys the time in the sun. I work outside so I'm happy to let her be happy. I only mow when she can't get to it.

 

[Tiger Small Engine]

It's 10 out the door with cash but I do get your point. I still have a hard time paying someone to change my oil and I hate that job. Cutting grass is not something we really mind. My wife works in an office with no windows for 12 hours a day so she enjoys the time in the sun. I work outside so I'm happy to let her be happy. I only mow when she can't get to it.

Not several years worth if paying a lawn service to mow, trim, and blow 4 acres, more like 2.5 years. It is a good solid mower (Bad Boy) for the price. 15 years ago Bad Boy was a low quality zero turn, but things have changed. Remember that Bad Boy and Spartan are close to the same mower. Competing business partners that broke up and make both mowers in Batesville, Arkansas.

 

[BigBlueEdge]

I've had a Rogue 72" with Yamaha engine since 2021. It's been great overall. The only real challenges have been getting the deck leveled and the cut quality when mowing at speed. I think both of these are really just facts of life that have to be dealt with. For leveling, a 72" deck on ground that isn't always flat is going to look like it is out of level as the mower and deck change angles. 72" is just really wide and high & low spots happen at the edges of the deck. But that makes it hard to judge whether it is slope or actual level adjustment. My lawn is also full of dandelions and 'crappy' grass varieties so when I'm mowing fast it tends to leave slightly higher areas behind the front wheels. Again, probably just the nature of mowing long, heavy grass too fast. Doesn't have enough time to lift back up to be cut.

Functionally though the Rogue is great. Very ruggedly built. Great power, good controls, comfortable ride with the frame suspension features and suspension seat. Tires have great traction on wet/soft ground and slopes like the sides of my driveway and highway ditch banks. Only got it stuck once and that was when I cut the corner too tight going around the garden after a bunch of rain. The Rogue shaved about an hour off of my mowing time for my 10 acre lot (of which I mow about 7 acres). From 4.5 hours with my JD x758 tractor with 60" deck to about 3.5 hours.

 

[blong579]

I've had a Rogue 72" with Yamaha engine since 2021. It's been great overall. The only real challenges have been getting the deck leveled and the cut quality when mowing at speed. I think both of these are really just facts of life that have to be dealt with. For leveling, a 72" deck on ground that isn't always flat is going to look like it is out of level as the mower and deck change angles. 72" is just really wide and high & low spots happen at the edges of the deck. But that makes it hard to judge whether it is slope or actual level adjustment. My lawn is also full of dandelions and 'crappy' grass varieties so when I'm mowing fast it tends to leave slightly higher areas behind the front wheels. Again, probably just the nature of mowing long, heavy grass too fast. Doesn't have enough time to lift back up to be cut.

Functionally though the Rogue is great. Very ruggedly built. Great power, good controls, comfortable ride with the frame suspension features and suspension seat. Tires have great traction on wet/soft ground and slopes like the sides of my driveway and highway ditch banks. Only got it stuck once and that was when I cut the corner too tight going around the garden after a bunch of rain. The Rogue shaved about an hour off of my mowing time for my 10 acre lot (of which I mow about 7 acres). From 4.5 hours with my JD x758 tractor with 60" deck to about 3.5 hours.

Thanks, this is the kind of info I was looking for. I know bad boy has a not so great reputation for its older stuff but that does seem like it's changing.