[Shop-talk] john deere lawn tractors?

[Paul Parkanzky]

I would have loved to get a lawn service instead of the mower, but we
were quoted $1200-1250/season for a service.  That was above our
tipping point for buying the zero turn.

-Paul

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 2:26 PM,  <scott.hall at comcast.net> wrote:
> that's exactly where I'm at--yes, my wife bought a tool.  but it's a tool I'd rather never use ($2800 will buy a lot of lawn service) and now that we have it it's going to be that much harder to avoid mowing.  I want it to make mowing as painless as possible and have low costs of ownership.  that's it.
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>   -------------- Original message ----------------------
>  From: Paul Parkanzky <parkanzky at gmail.com>
>  > I just bought a new Zero Turn at Home Depot yesterday.  I didn't see a
>  > 48" green option for $2800.  I did see that for $3600.  I bought the
>  > 50" Cub Cadet for $3k.  I had a really hard time trying to decide if
>  > the Deere was worth another $600.  The Cub also has a three year
>  > warranty instead of two.  The Deere is nicer, with solid connections
>  > between the levers and hydrostatic transmissions and a rear engine
>  > shroud thing.  But I am sick enough over spending $3k on a tool I'd
>  > rather not use, so I decided not to spend 20% more.