Lawnflite PRO553 HRS - Thoughts?

[Richard 1234]

There are very many perfectly good 4 wheeled mowers, and a few bad ones!

 

Keep away from shed stores models and the lesser known ones off the web.

 

Go for recognised brand names and for one that your local dealer stocks, as a good backup is important even for a quality brand.

 

The strongest and most trouble free will have Ally wheels, Rubber tyres, Precision, sealed, ball or roller bearings in the wheels and a Briggs or Kawasaki engine (Honda as long as it is a GX, skip the GC, in my opinion).

Forget ones with silly multi angle handle locks, they just break.

 

The best for commercial use is, in my opinion the Kaaz (or variants) and it also has a shaft drive to the gearbox.

 

John Deere R series are also very good, as are the Stiga aluminium deck machines.

 

There are a few I would avoid but its not fair to name them on a public forum.

 

 

Thanks very much for the comprehensive answer

[borris]

Where people have had gearbox issues, is that just on roller models or on 4 wheelers aswell?

 

Gonna replace our Hondas this year and like the look of Kaaz, but these lawnflights look the same, and less money:thumbup1:

 

 

Borris

[Daniel Jiggins]

The top end Viking 4 wheeled mowers are very good especially collecting wet grass.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

For rear roller it's got to be Kaaz I reckon;

 

For 4 wheeled; Kaaz again, quite like Ariens, but Viking and Etestia are lush as are some of the pro Toro's.

[IVECOKID]

The top end Viking 4 wheeled mowers are very good especially collecting wet grass.

 

I have 2 Vikings ,a 4 wheeler and a roller both top of the range 21" and are proving to be excellent all round .

 

Ste

[Burgess]

I like the look of the new viking 7 series the 756 but I think ill wait for the gear drive instead of the hydrostatic.

 

Viking also made an 8 series but they never brought it to the UK as far as I'm aware.

[chrisj]

I've heard bad things about the 756 on a landscape forum. Apparently it's really slow compared to the 755.

[Burgess]

My dealer said its a new system. They used to have vario drive that has limited reliability but this new one is a bit more complicated and for whatever reason it never occured to them that it needs to be faster.