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I really like it! I had a sit on scag for a long time and this is amazing. I drive a truck for a living and my back bothers me and I get no back pain standing on that machine. Ease of getting on and off and just how much maneuvering has increased.

 

It is a little judgemental gnome, my wife says hes the cause of general mischief in our house.
Just normal engine oil 15W50 or actual hydraulic oil? I will look for a filter and fill hole when I am changing the blades in a few weeks.

That makes sense that standing would be better after hours on end of driving a truck, I think they look a lot better then the sit down ZT but they are only seems to be commercial grade and I cant justify the price for the little I do.

 

I won’t go back on a sit down again.

 

I've been wanting to find a commercial stander to rehab. The sit down ZT's come of so often and they sell so fast, I don't know if I need to broaden my knowledge base.

 

The Exmark, Toro and John Deere units I work on use 15/50 engine oil. I guess you are gonna have to go to the "cloud" to see what those use.

 

It's easier to find walk behinds [and use a sulky] then actual standers, especially for a decent price. I snagged a 48'' Ferris A month or so ago for $800 and considered that a decent buy. 15hp Kawasaki engine, new air filter, and some adjustments and some grease and that was it. I almost never see walk behinds or standers come up for sale, however, I'm not looking on auction sites either. I'd bet a of newer/smaller lawn companies search high and low for quality commercial lawn equipment like walk behinds/standers. You are correct, riders/ZT's are much easier to find though most still don't go for cheap if a quality name brand and taken care of.

 

Found a Dixie Chopper hydro walk behind with a sulkie that has a 26hp Generac on it, thought about buying it for the motor for my Ferris.

the Dixie needs a wheel motor, I’d kinda feel bad yanking the motor off when the rest is in decent shape. They’re only asking $400…

 

Yeah I've seen a fair amount of used sulky style mowers for sale but when I looking for a couple months I didn't see a single used stand on ZT, I assume they are more a niche market so its commercial grade users who keep their machines long term.

Yeah I'm gonna have to figure out what brand/model the transmissions are to find more, good to know that you use normal engine oil and not actual hydro oil though, I dont know anything about hydrolics other then pass vehicle power steering systems and I assume thats completely different.

 

Watch out for those Generac engines. Lots of them came with a tapered crankshaft. I think they make adapter shims, but haven't come across them yet.

 

Deck is finished up except for the idler pulley. This one sounds a bit "gravelly".




With the covers installed. More to come.

 

This is before I changed out the wheels. These ones are pretty beat up.

 

After installing some decent shoes.

 

Damn, that’d have been a crappy surprise. Thanks for the heads up. I’ll poke around for adapters before I think about it any further.

 

Could maybe just leave ‘er at that. Covers all the bases.

 

So I’m on the lookout for another motor to swap on. The big ones I’m aware of that are commercial grade are Kawasaki, Kohler, Briggs & Stratton Vanguard.

Any others I should keep my eye out for? I see a lot of the Briggs Intek for sale but those are off riding mowers. I need a minimum of 23hp, but would love to upsize the motor if I can’t easily repair the current Kawi 23.

 

What version? Horizontal or vertical shaft?

 

This is my first go a round with Generac. Stationary natural gas powered generator. Not too impressed with the unit, setup or operation.

 

Sorry, vertical. Mine is an FH680v-AS30 23hp Kawasaki.

That doesn’t sound fun.

 

I think the reason for stand on's over ZT's and walk behinds with sulkies is that they take up far less room on a trailer and if the lawn service is doing large areas with multiple employees, it's far cheaper running one trailer, 3/4 stand on's and accessories over several trucks and trailers loaded with normal ZT's.

 

The new stand on units are miles safer than walk behind/ sulkies.

The learning curve for a hydraulic driven walk behind takes some getting used to. I repowered one last year for a customer. I tested it on my own yard. That was enough!

Squeeze the levers to go slower?! How does that make sense?