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One of my Tiger Cats turned over 1600 hours this past week. How many hours do you have on one? That particular machine was purchased new on July 2014.

I plan on running that one attest one or two more years commercially. It has the 22 hp Kawasaki on it.

I don't have a Tiger Cat. Mine's a Turf Tiger. I bought it new about 5 years ago. It came with one of the new, improved hour meters. I've run it about two days a week, 30 weeks a year for those 5 years and it has about 28 hours showing:confused2:

Looks like not many want to talk about their Tiger Cats. Maybe they're too busy this time of the year.

I have a 2014 Cheetah with a Kawasaki 850 27hp 61 deck. It has about 140 hours on it. I try to keep my 3 acres looking like a golf course, but I mow as fast as I can. :smile:

About 50

510 hrs and no problems

Not a tiger cat. Have a 2005 wildcat with 1300 on in. Had to change the hard gaskets and the third clutch. Mow around 5 acres and some rent houses she's been good to me. Kohler 27 hp.

I have a 2014 Tiger Cat with a 61” deck and a B&S engine...I mow about 4 acres a week 30-35 weeks a year...just finished this week’s mow and it has 218.2 hours on it...Love my Scag...

Cheers/bg

I bought my Tiger Cat used, forget which year it is, but it only has 180 hours on it. A commercial landscape buddy says it should be good for 2900 hours. I am slowly clearing the understory brush on a heavily wooded 46 acres; using the Tiger Cat to mow the cleared areas a couple of times a year while establishing Buffalo Grass, food plot and wildflowers. I'm 60 years old, so it is doubtful it'll hit the 2900 hours in my lifetime. This machine rocks using Ethanol free premium gas.

My oldest has over 1700 on it. My second was clocking around 800 but the meter broke so I am not sure how many is on it. My newest has over 700 on it now. All three will go full speed again next summer. We are still running a couple of them doing cleanups. It is mid Nov. in Lower Alabama.

I have a 2016 Tiger Cat II with about 30 hours showing on the clock.

jekjr said:

My oldest has over 1700 on it. My second was clocking around 800 but the meter broke so I am not sure how many is on it. My newest has over 700 on it now. All three will go full speed again next summer. We are still running a couple of them doing cleanups. It is mid Nov. in Lower Alabama.

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I have a TC II now that has close to 100 on it now as well.

mine has 5.9 hours on it.

I have 9 hours on my Tiger Cat 2 now.

I have a Tiger Cat purchased in 2010. Have 155 hours on it. Have had to replace magnetic clutch, hour meter, pto switch and just replaced both ignition coils. Has a Kawasaki 19hp engine. The scag mower is heavy built and very durable. The engine is a much less than I expected. In retrospect, I should have purchased one with a Kohler engine.

vintageman said:

I have a Tiger Cat purchased in 2010. Have 155 hours on it. Have had to replace magnetic clutch, hour meter, pto switch and just replaced both ignition coils. Has a Kawasaki 19hp engine. The scag mower is heavy built and very durable. The engine is a much less than I expected. In retrospect, I should have purchased one with a Kohler engine.

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Nope your problems I believe come from the mower not being used not from the engine itself. The Kawasaki engine is far better than the Kohler. I personally have never seen a Kawasaki fail in my part of the world however I have seen several with Kohlers bite the dust.

You may be right. I hope it will be as durable as your machine. Only time and repair cost will tell.

vintageman said:

I have a Tiger Cat purchased in 2010. Have 155 hours on it. Have had to replace magnetic clutch, hour meter, pto switch and just replaced both ignition coils. Has a Kawasaki 19hp engine. The scag mower is heavy built and very durable. The engine is a much less than I expected. In retrospect, I should have purchased one with a Kohler engine.

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I have 4 Tiger Cats with Kawasaki 22 hp engines on them. All 4 are 52" units. One bought in July 2014, one bought April 2015, One bought May 2016, and I purchased the last one (A Tiger Cat II) in April of this year. The second mower has been the "problem child" if there has been one. It had some electrical problems at several different times. It has had the stator and regulator changed, then it had fuse blowing problems. It has had an hour meter go out. It has had the electric clutch replaced. Then it has had another voltage regulator changed. It has also had two batteries put in it. At this time it appears that all of those issues are finally fixed. It had about 800 hours on it when the hour meter was replaced and has around 175 hours on the new one. It ran a while without one working as well. The oldest is in the 1800 hours range. The third one is in the 850 hour range. The last one now has close to 100 hours on it.

I just replaced the PTO clutch switch on the third one this past week. It would engage but the spring got so weak on it that it would not stay engaged.

I promise you all of these mowers have been assaulted as far as cutting grass is concerned. WE cut acres, and acres of Pensacola Bahia grass in the heat of South Alabama. I have seen many kinds of mowers running in our area. I personally have never operated nor sat and watched anything else cut that will stay with one of them cutting Bahia grass. If I found something that would out cut them and it was sold locally I would be running it. In my experience there is nothing I have seen cut that will cut tall stemmed grass with a 52" Tiger Cat Scag with a Kawasaki engine on it.

vintageman said:

I have a Tiger Cat purchased in 2010. Have 155 hours on it. Have had to replace magnetic clutch, hour meter, pto switch and just replaced both ignition coils. Has a Kawasaki 19hp engine. The scag mower is heavy built and very durable. The engine is a much less than I expected. In retrospect, I should have purchased one with a Kohler engine.

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How wide is your mowing deck?

JGGMC said:

How wide is your mowing deck?

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Mower deck is 48". Using Oregon 96-308 Hi-Lift Gator blades.

15.3 hours on my new Tiger Cat 2 and no problems. How many hours is the first oil change recommended? :smile:

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Mower deck is 48". Using Oregon 96-308 Hi-Lift Gator blades.

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We run the Oregon high lift blades on our mowers. We run Gator Blades in the winter time to mulch leaves. The high lifts will sandblast holes in your deck at about 800 hours and they will also sandblast out the baffles around the back side of the blades.

The high lifts give a great discharge on tall grass.