Buying new mower help me decide

[Jetblast]

Honestly, the gear difference didn't seem like that big a deal to me given I'm just using my mower on my own lawn. Besides, I've never read of any Hydrogear integrated transaxle blowing gears and I've Googled them up, down, and all around. For me it was the charge pumps on the ZT-3100s that sounded more enticing and I will say, they are snappy. I'm pretty sure I could get a decent wheelie out of my ZTR if I had a beer or two in me.

 

[robert]

Kenny/Jet, while I agree that the ZT2800's in my Exmark will outlast me by many, many years (hell it doesn't start half the time :laughing the use of powder metal gears, according to my research, is for one reason only in this application-cost.

For the homeowner, or as Hydro-Gear puts it, the 'Estate' owner-this transmission is probably a good choice, it is serviceable with the external filters all others are sealed and are used by a surprising number of mower makers..