no thanks, the engine is worth more than the mower and too nice to mow grass with....
I will gladly take my 20 dollar push mower although that old 20+ year old deck welded in 2 spots 3.5hp mower is on its last leg. Next one will be 6hp on up 22 inch cut to walk faster spending 200 bucks or so. Is funny, I have the 2nd or 3rd best looking lawn out of the block and do it all myself vs. everyone else pretty much hires a lawn care company to spray for weeds/fertilize and most in the same sized 100x110 foot lot have riding lawn mowers worth 2 to 4K in value 48 inch on up cuts. NO idea why though needing such fancy mowing eqmt since I can push mow with cheapo mower in less than 1 hour same size lot in town. I would rather spend my 2-4 grand on motorcycles.....
by the time they get their riding mower out I have 1/3rd of my yard done already and push mowers in small yards cut more even as well and edge closer around shrubs/house stuff much better.
How hard is it really to spend 20-30 bucks per year tops on weed n feed in a spray bottle or weed n feed granule taking 20 minutes tops to spray/weed n feed with hand spreader or garden hose? Lawn care companies charge like 50-60 bucks per application 4x's per year or more, no thanks, a nicely manicured yard is not worth that much per year. I can buy a lot of weednfeed spray bottles or pellets and do it myself at a fraction of the cost. Just plain lazy if you ask me.
My Kubota tractor costs considerably more than $2-4K but it's diesel 3 cylinder liquid cooled, 4WD, hydrostatic, has 3-point hitch, 2 PTO's and a front loader, weighs over a ton, mows my back 1-acre lawn in 18 minutes (remaining lawn another 15), plows the long drive no matter how deep the snow, grades the same drive and can pull your car out of a ditch. I know it will outlast me - it's really a small farm tractor - can plow, disc, post-hole dig, backhoe and pretty much anything else I can think of with the right attachment. Worth it to me when the mower deck on my Honda Harmony siezed up after only 20 years. For 3 years now I've gotten most of the way through the mowing season on one tank of diesel. Oh yeah, and it was made in Georgia.
