Another Viking Mower to add to my fleet ...

[Burgess]

Anyone using this mower?

Could be an addition to the flock...

Hydrostatic, 80litre sac Magnesium alloy lined with plastic body, Kawasaki engine with oil filter.

2k euros

Ty

 

Wait for the gear drive one to come out. The GS is about £1300 but the hydro (YS?) is about £1700 and I've read some user reviews that the YS is painfully slow, but the GS has the same gearbox as the 755 which wasn't too slow.

[northman]

anyone having any issues with their Viking mb4rtp? went to cut my lawn today started cutting fine but after about 3minutes it developed one hell of a clanging noise from the deck area.

[IVECOKID]

No problems has yet,just check blade not catching deck etc ,only other thing to check is the front wheel drive.

 

 

Ste

[northman]

Yeh, checked blade for interference, and for any play but couldn't find any, I'll take it to my local dealer tomorrow, hopefully it'll be something simple.

[mowingjamie]

Guss109, do you have the Toro Timemaster or the Turfmaster? From what ive seen the Timemaster is a domestic machine and the Turfmaster is the professional machine, with a large price diffrence! Diffrent engines too, with the Timemaster having a smaller Briggs. How do you find its cutting and collecting in wet? Does the Briggs engine have enough power to move that 60kg and cut at the same time? Really intrested in these at the moment with the 30 inch cut.

[IVECOKID]

This may help , a short clip of me Turfmaster with a few tweaks though .

 

 

 

Ste

[mowingjamie]

great video! just what ive been looking for! anyone tried the cheaper timemaster tho? is it worth spending the extra for? that turfmaster in the clip looks very impressive! any faults so far?

[IVECOKID]

It Hates wet grass full stop .....but has the manual says only for well maintained grass so weekly lawns.

 

 

Ste

[Burgess]

It has side discharge doesn't it? So the blades spin with each other instead of against and it passes all the grass onto one blade before then shooting it into the box. Would be good to have a UK spec that has contra rotating blades and no SD

[Guss109]

I have the cheaper one as said it's not keen on soaking wet grass but it fairly beasts on in the dry and packs the box really well. Not to sure if the more expensive one would work any better but I couldn't justify another £400 at the time