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I just picked up a Simplicity Boardmoor 23hp/50", looks like a 2009 production date. Hopefully this thing will stand up to its promises. All of my previous mowers were cheap ones, i would pick them up for $100-$300, fix them up a bit and use for two to three season, then sell for $100-$300. Main problem with all of them was that i would kill hydrostatics on them, I have a fairly steep hill. Also most had low end engines, poor quality 15hp, 18hp, 20hp. My last one, Cub Cadet LTX1040 had a 20hp Kohler engine, no matter what i did with it, it always ran like shit, and at the end of the season, last year, it blew a headgasket. that's when I said enough is enough I'm sick and tired of cheap POS mowers. and this year i hired a guy to do my lawn. He did do a somewhat a decent job, but I calculated and I have spent a little over a $1k (including a spring clean up), but no bush trimming, and he did a really shitty job blowing off grass clippings. Way to expensive for a half ass job. about a month ago I started shopping for a new/Used machine. my budget was no more then $1500, (so obviously new was out of the question), and I did not wanted to do financing.
Either way I visited a few lawn equipment dealers and service shops and talked to a few guys that work on lawn equipment as a side hustle. And what I gather form all of them is that I needed a higher end type of a machine or midclass zero turn. I looked at few Zero Turns within my budget, but most were junks and either way most are a bit too big for my yard, and the ones that weren't too big and were in a decent conditions were way too expensive.
Next up were Higher end riding mowers, I looked at about a dozen of them, All different brands and years. OMG few machines were in a such poor conditions and people still were asking over $1k for them. I did look at few older simplicity tractors, same thing some needed work adn people want $800-1200 for them. And then there was, the one! not too old not to new, perfect condition. 2009 production date, only 150 hrs, absolutely no rust spots, expect some edges on a deck. As per the seller it was used to mow approximately 1/4 acre flat yard in front a workshop he owns. And within my budget, YEAH!!! From my understanding it was roughly a $4500-5000 machine back in a day. And now days equivalent machine is around $7k. Hopefully it will live up to its promise of being a beast of riding mowers!
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I just picked up a Simplicity Boardmoor 23hp/50", looks like a 2009 production date. Hopefully this thing will stand up to its promises. All of my previous mowers were cheap ones, i would pick them up for $100-$300, fix them up a bit and use for two to three season, then sell for $100-$300. Main problem with all of them was that i would kill hydrostatics on them, I have a fairly steep hill. Also most had low end engines, poor quality 15hp, 18hp, 20hp. My last one, Cub Cadet LTX1040 had a 20hp Kohler engine, no matter what i did with it, it always ran like shit, and at the end of the season, last year, it blew a headgasket. that's when I said enough is enough I'm sick and tired of cheap POS mowers. and this year i hired a guy to do my lawn. He did do a somewhat a decent job, but I calculated and I have spent a little over a $1k (including a spring clean up), but no bush trimming, and he did a really shitty job blowing off grass clippings. Way to expensive for a half ass job. about a month ago I started shopping for a new/Used machine. my budget was no more then $1500, (so obviously new was out of the question), and I did not wanted to do financing.
Either way I visited a few lawn equipment dealers and service shops and talked to a few guys that work on lawn equipment as a side hustle. And what I gather form all of them is that I needed a higher end type of a machine or midclass zero turn. I looked at few Zero Turns within my budget, but most were junks and either way most are a bit too big for my yard, and the ones that weren't too big and were in a decent conditions were way too expensive.
Next up were Higher end riding mowers, I looked at about a dozen of them, All different brands and years. OMG few machines were in a such poor conditions and people still were asking over $1k for them. I did look at few older simplicity tractors, same thing some needed work adn people want $800-1200 for them. And then there was, the one! not too old not to new, perfect condition. 2009 production date, only 150 hrs, absolutely no rust spots, expect some edges on a deck. As per the seller it was used to mow approximately 1/4 acre flat yard in front a workshop he owns. And within my budget, YEAH!!! From my understanding it was roughly a $4500-5000 machine back in a day. And now days equivalent machine is around $7k. Hopefully it will live up to its promise of being a beast of riding mowers!
