Micropterus said:
At the risk of having every bad boy owner on the OB attack me, I would be leery of their mowers. I've spoken with several people about their quality issues and a lot of their parts are not what one would expect on a commercial grade zero-turn (Chinese parts). Perhaps someone with a little more knowledge can weigh in on this. Hustler, Grasshopper, Gravely are all quality machines. But everybody likes what they gonna like.
That's good info. The poor quality parts is why I hated the john Deere. I went and looked at a neighbors ExMark Pioneer last night. The spindles are completely sealed and unserviceable and they don't offer the Kawasaki anymore for the Pioneers (and the Lazer Z models are probably way overkill). Other than that it's a very well built machine. Not really all that nervous about the non greasable spindles, by the motor gives be pause. The Kawasaki twin engines are like the Honda small engines.....you cant kill them, or that's what I'm hearing.
Anyone have a Kohler powered big mower that they've beat on? It's pretty telling that the lower end models all switch to Kohler....and the higher end all have Kawasaki.
