What is the difference between lawn tractors?
What is the difference between “Lawn” “Yard” “Fairway” and “Garden” riding mowers/tractors? While I am asking, do you have an opinion about Briggs & Stratton vs Kohler vs Kawasaki engines in large riding mowers, such as 24hp? I am looking to spend about $2000 – hoping to find a discount due to end-of-season. Thanks in advance!
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Whatever you do, do not buy any tractors from Sears. I know somebody that used to work there and he was telling me that they were having a lot of problems with theirs. All of their gray and some of their red tractors were recalled this year because of a problem with the fuel tank.
Lawn Tractors are limited to mowing and pulling utility carts and such items. NOT for Ground Engaging implements such as plows, rototillers cultivators..etc.
Lawn” “Yard” “Fairway” are your basic grass cutters.
The Briggs and Stratton Engines have a long term reputation for quality as does the Kohler. Never had a lot of dealings with the Kawaski but John Deer uses those almost exclusively in their lawn and garden machines.
Garden tractors are heavier built with stronger transmissions or trans axles. Garden tractors can handle tasks from tilling new ground to plowing or blowing snow including mowing.
$2000. 00 will get you a fairly good quality Tractor capable of doing a variety of jobs.
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A recall due to a gas tank…… thats what I want to hear from a company!!!, means they are taking responsibility and fix it instead of hoping nobody notices….. there is nothing bad with ayp mowers! they are a good mower at a good price….
For engines, I prefer briggs…. they last almost as long or longer, take a beating better (I’ve severly overloaded em, run em on crap gas, and over reved em for hours on end…. even ran a couple low on oil to see how long they would last and they came back alive when I unseized em)
and most of all, alot cheaper to fix!!
Basically a garden tractor is made heavier to do heavier jobs like tilling, hauling, snowthrowing, etc….. a lawn tractors/fairway/yard will do the basic hauling of heavy loads and cut the grass…