Do you make your buying decision based on mower brand or engine brand?

OutdoorEnvy

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• May 5, 2014 / Do you make your buying decision based on mower brand or engine brand?

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I noticed you see a lot of the same engine brands and models on different mower brands. Do you let one trump the other when deciding which to buy?

 

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• May 5, 2014 / Do you make your buying decision based on mower brand or engine brand?

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Hello again envy. (I just said hello) . If I buy again I will let engine trump after owning Briggs Stratton Intek with problems There is a poll about engine choices. I will go Kaw.

 

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• May 5, 2014 / Do you make your buying decision based on mower brand or engine brand?

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Engine plays a bigger role, Kawasaki is the engine I look for first, then Kohler.

 

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• May 5, 2014 / Do you make your buying decision based on mower brand or engine brand?

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Engine played a major role. Then was hydro gears and then was overall build and price.

 

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• May 5, 2014 / Do you make your buying decision based on mower brand or engine brand?

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Ok I will be the odd one.
Engine plays no roll in buying a mower

My big things are the deck and drive setup.

I have not found any engine to be better then the rest.

 

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• May 5, 2014 / Do you make your buying decision based on mower brand or engine brand?

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I would have much preferred a diesel, but it was out of my price range.

 

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• May 6, 2014 / Do you make your buying decision based on mower brand or engine brand?

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Arnezie said:

Engine played a major role. Then was hydro gears and then was overall build and price.

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Ditto.....took the words right out of my mouth:0)

 

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• May 6, 2014 / Do you make your buying decision based on mower brand or engine brand?

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For me I start with mower brand, then engine brand. I stay away from briggs as much as possible. My experience with them is that they slowly lose there power under heavy use. Often parts go out faster on low end briggs causing the initial much cheaper investment into a much larger investment over time.

The bigger briggs engines are a lot better I don't see the power loss as much and parts are quite inexpensive.

I have used the older Suzuki engines which I absolutely love. The newer commercial kawi on the proline series, the big kawi on a scag both of which I liked except the smaller kawi seemed to bend crankshafts easy. I worked at the other place 5 summers and saw well over 50 cranks being replaced and only 6 go out every day.

My 160cc Honda is a beast won't bog down.

And I never used kohler so I am not sure.