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Originally Posted by Iowanian
You can get in a decent John Deere for 6500. My personal mower is a bad boy. I'm not thrilled with how it handles side hills but it's been great for 2 mowing seasons. I have a friend who does custom mowing who swears by commercial grade grasshopper mowers.
I'd just personally avoid the mowers from the box stores. Some family members have them and they don't hold up as well...a John Deere from lowes isn't a John Deere.
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A Deere you buy from a Deere dealer isn't a Deere anymore either, but you're your right, it is a far different product than you get at the box stores. I wouldn't own one of those for anything.
I'll second the grasshopper suggestion, but I think they are significantly outside of his price range. We had a billion or so year old one and it was pretty solid.
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Originally Posted by seaofred
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Looks like a pretty decent rig for the price, presuming the deck isn't tiny. Just from the link, it looks like you may have to buy the deck separately.
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Originally Posted by mac459
Cub Cadet..have 3..one for my yard one for my grandma's yard then my dad has one..they work great..we change oil in them like the manual says and I change belts every year because I just want to..I also wash the deck off after every time I use it to keep grass from building in the shields..they all have a spot that I hook a hose up with an adapter and wash underneath the deck with the blades on
But if you do that with any brand I would say you would have good luck..so I say buy whatever you have close to you so you have easy access to a dealer for any work you need to have done
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For Deere's anyway, don't have a dealer work on them. If you can't hire someone to do the maintenance on them, find some third party small engine guy. The Deere shop here charges $105/hour. Accordingly, they aren't anxious to do work on mowers, anything beyond an oil change probably exceeds the cost of the mower.
And FWIW, just changing oil and belts won't necessarily buy you a long life. My parents have a Woods mower, and it will chew through the acres like nobody's business, but it is pretty expensive to keep and parts are epic expensive.