Hello everyone. Let me give you a quick run-down of my scenerio. I am looking to buy a new mower, tossing around buying brand new (I like the warranty and financing options) or a used commercial mower. I will be mowing my very small yard(80'X120'), my inlaws medium sized yard, and hopefully 3-5 more yards to pay for the equipment and a little extra cash. Does anyone have any experience with hustler or Big Dog mowers. After reading on their sites, it sounds like they are constructed good and I like the $3,000-$3,500 price range. Any feed back or other recomendations is appriciated.
Hustler or Big DDog
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You need to get that budget up to $4000 and get a Hustler Raptor SD, 48 or 54". The BigDog version is the same but has a nicer seat...which you pay more for. The RSD should be plenty of mower for your needs, and with 0% for 48 months you will pay $90-95 a month depending on your state sales tax.
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You'll probably be looking a little more than the $90 -$95 for or on $4000 loan when you figure in sales tax along with there $100 account set up fee as they call it. The other thing is and I'm not real sure where the financing is coming from but Sheffield and Synchrony who do the financing for Hustler, Toro and others only do 42 months financing on the residential / homeowner units so that will or could make some difference. All would depend on what he or somebody comes up with for a down payment.
Thanks everyone. Hustler'S deal right now (48 mos. 0%) is pretty enticing. I called a couple dealers today to ask if the $3,899 was a fixed price. They both said they did not have any room to move. I think I will be going hustler, now the $1,000 question is Raptor or Raptor SD? I know what is the better mower, I just need to justify the extra $ K in my head.
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If you looking to justify the price difference It sounds like your shopping price not mowers. The Hustler SD is definitely the nicer of the two mowers, moving from the EZT drives on the Raptor to the 2800 drives on the RSD justifies the price difference alone but trying to justify the extra K for the SD as you say would depend on you and your intentions. You said I will be mowing my very small yard(80'X120'), my in-laws medium sized yard, and hopefully 3-5 more yards to pay for the equipment and a little extra cash. The Raptor alone will do that without an issue but it's the other 3 to 5 yards your planning on that will get you.
I know from experience that scenario never plays out the way you intend it too. Personally if your intentions are to pick up that extra yards and I was going to finance a mower I'd step up to at least the Hustler Fastrak SD and have a mower that you wouldn't have to replace before you can pay it off. I mean if your going to make monthly payment anyway, make them on something that's worth the money. The monthly payment between the two mowers isn't going to be that much different. I financed $6100 on the Toro Z Master 2000 and the payments are only $146 a month.
THe Fastrak SD will get you a 4yr 600 hr warranty, a commercial FX or FS engine not an FR, commercial 3400 drives, a 10 ga. deck with 7ga reinforcement not an 11ga. with 14 ga reinforcement and 18,600 bts not 16,700 for a better cut.
It's a $30/month difference. For the difference in machine it's a no brainier. You need an SD.