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Posted by AaronG (more from AaronG) on Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:51:56 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: riding mower suggestions/recommendations?, kooch, Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:10:57
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John Deere may make some fantastic machines, but their lower end lawn tractors are no better than the competition. I used to have an LX170 ( I think it was a 170). It had a nice quiet Kawasaki engine and had an overall feeling of quality. Unfortunately every time I mowed the lawn, something would break. It had an electric PTO, and for something with a 38" deck, it was just overcomplicated and had too many plastic parts. I ended up selling it in favor of a Murry rider that I also had.

My dad bought a L110 tractor new in 2003. Its also been a turd. With 260 hours, it has required 2 deck spindles ($70 each), every pulley on the deck, both drive pulleys for the hydrostatic drive, and I've had to weld the deck back together as it was cracking at all the lift points. It doesn't seem any better built than MTD. To top this all off, the dealers seem to be obnoxious, and I don't think you can buy parts online.

My Murry on the other hand was a great machine. I bought it for $698 at Home Depot in 2000. It was trouble free for the 8 years I used it. All that it ever needed was blades and banging out the dents in the deck it got from hitting rocks. I sold it when I moved for $200.

The best advice I can give you about lawn equipment is that the dealers seem to be the absolute bottom feeders of the repair industry. You don't want to visit them any more than you have to. Buy something that is fairly simple and has parts available online or at a Box store. At the end of the day, its a lawn mower, it cuts grass and gets put in a shed. 24 hp fancy headlights and hydro this or that doesn't get girls wet, it just costs money up front and over time as it breaks.



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