need 1337 tractor...

Warsloth · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:31 am Post subject: need 1337 tractor...

I need help picking a mower.

Wife says the 154 LO BOY is too big:

(kinda looks like that with a mower deck)

it sports a 5ft (60in) mowing deck, 15hp and has an engine I am pretty familiar with (I am good at working with IH stuff)

She wants me to get the 1440 garden tractor:

It has a 42 in deck, 14hp, and an engine that I know little about.
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Warsloth · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:40 pm Post subject:

the 1440 is owned by the previous owner of the house we just bought, and he is asking $1100 for it.

The Lo Boy is owned by a tractor salesman back home. My dad, uncle, and grandpas have dealt with him, and he is practically a family friend. I really like doing business with him. He is asking $1500 for it. It is a much larger tractor though.
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Shensenn · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:59 pm Post subject:

For the extra $400 I'd go with the big'un. Lawns mowed faster courtesy of a faster machine and much bigger mower deck and I don't know where you live, but the big ones also make pretty decent plows during the winter.
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eboobi · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 4:32 pm Post subject:

It really depends on your yard size, time, and personal preference. If you like the big one, and you have a sizable yard, go for it.
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Warsloth · Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:36 am Post subject:

looks like the Lo Boy by a landslide.

I have to say, so far my wife is the only one who has opposed getting the bigger tractor.
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Isleh · Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:43 am Post subject:

Sai'nu · Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:00 am Post subject:

I say LO BOY!

Of course, I can maybe see the other point of view if you've got a small yard and a big honkin' mower! LoL.

However, knowing how to work on the engine in advance and thinking of how much more time and money you might save by getting the yard done a little faster might be good enough incentive to just go LO BOY.

To boot you can promice to show the wife how to use it! smile

Er, yeah, .....and stuff.
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Warsloth · Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:08 am Post subject:

She already stated that if I got it she wouldnt be using it. But... to be honest she has never mowed, nor intended to mow. She used the weedeater once, because she thought it looked fun.

I have plenty to do once we move:

My old truck (or rather, little brother) needs restoring.
Dad has a lawn tractor he wants me to resurrect.
I am trying to talk a relative into letting me resurrect his antique tractor.
Want to dam up a place for a pond.
clear some trees and erect a small pole barn.

lofty goals.
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Sai'nu · Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:13 am Post subject:

Sounds like you need; LO BOY!
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Jimos' Edwards · Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:45 am Post subject:

i salute you in your handyman attitude /salute. have fun making things and stuff.
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Warsloth · Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 5:34 am Post subject:

I had a piece of '60 bamboo, so I decided I would stop over and walk around the areas and trails I would have to cover with this mower. I found that the area would be okay for the Lo Boy. What I didn't expect to find was these little bastards:

I got back to the house and realized I had to use the bathroom really bad (takes about 20 minutes to get home from there, and the previous owner was gracious enough to let me access the place before they are completely out) While I am sitting there I notice my ankles are itching like crazy. I figured I wandered into some poison ivy, but when I noticed all these tiny specks moving around I started freaking out.

at first I thought they were some kind of sand flea, or baby spiders. Then I looked close enough to notice the little hook shaped legs moving around. I thought I had tracked through a nest of baby dog ticks, but a call to the kind gentleman that had been all through those woods revealed their true identity.

At least they weren't lice. At one point I thought they might be, since I have never seen a louse before.

Edit: BTW the ones that were on me were no bigger than a grain of salt.
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Warsloth · Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 6:12 am Post subject:

this is more along the lines of what I encountered, only I had about 5000 of them on me.

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Warsloth · Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 9:24 pm Post subject:

Looks like I have some work ahead of me, levelling the trails and clearing extra brush, CUZ IM GETTIN THE LO BOY!!! WOOT!

In other news, I would have taken some pictures but my digital camera is broken.
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Sai'nu · Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 9:30 pm Post subject:

Is it; Sony? cool

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Warsloth · Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 3:12 am Post subject: