ZTR for slope?

[Raw Dodge]

my friend just bought a brand new leftover 31hp Vanguard for 14500 with zero financing... no deck but you can get into one with a deck for 18 if you look.

 

[Bluesbob]

Thanks for all the response. I'm not sure what the slope is, but I don't think it's more than 1 foot per every 10 feet. My lawn guy recommends a ZTR, but I have to get the hay bush-hogged first, he says. Excellent idea to ask my local dealer. I can go to about $150/month, which is what the Ferris would run. Thank you everyone!

 

[MRCo.]

Hustler makes the ATZ, All Terrain Z....but it's high end...$$$. Try to find a machine with the lowest seat to lower the centre of gravity. Make sure it has ROPS. Also, you have a lot to cut so you will be buying a larger deck which widens footprint....so that's good. Have fun shopping!

 

[Lawnboy18]

The Stander would be an excellent choice for anything up to a 20 degree slope. Both the Stander and the Zero Turn Rider will or should have a lower center of gravity than a garden tractor. The advantage you have with the Toro Grandstand or Exmark Vantage is you would have two mowers in one, a ZTR and a walk behind.

Very true! Also, standers are saffer on slopes and you can zoom around under places a ZTR can't.

 

[Ric]

Hustler makes the ATZ, All Terrain Z....but it's high end...$$$. Try to find a machine with the lowest seat to lower the center of gravity. Make sure it has ROPS. Also, you have a lot to cut so you will be buying a larger deck which widens footprint....so that's good. Have fun shopping!

Very true! Also, standers are safer on slopes and you can zoom around under places a ZTR can't.

The ATZ is rated to 25 degrees but like you say it's high end...$$$. The Standers are much the same as the ZTR being the larger the deck the wider the foot print and the higher the cost, my 36" is on the narrow side but its advantage is that it only weighs 756lbs, the 60" GS comes in at 928lbs which can be a disadvantage or an advantage over most of the ZTR's especially the ATZ at 1500lbs depending on how you look at it. The other thing he may want to consider is the cost of running the machines.

 

[jekjr]

I have not shot grade on them to know what the slopes are but we cut some very steep places with our zero turns at times. To say zero turn will not work on a hill is no where near true.

I cut hills with my 326 Kubota that there is no way I would cut them on a ride on tractor type mower in fact. The center of gravity on them is much lower.

 

[Carscw]

I get calls all the time from guys that do HUD homes that need me to come cut a hill for them because their ztr can't stick it.

I riding mower will stick any hill you are brave enough to try

 

[Ric]

I get calls all the time from guys that do HUD homes that need me to come cut a hill for them because their ztr can't stick it.

I riding mower will stick any hill you are brave enough to try

A ZTR or a Stander will do most any hill if your brave enough to try but there's a fine line between Brave and Stupidity and both can get you into a lot of trouble and an article in the newspaper.

 

[jekjr]

I get calls all the time from guys that do HUD homes that need me to come cut a hill for them because their ztr can't stick it.

I riding mower will stick any hill you are brave enough to try

I don't know what kind of mower you are running and I don't know what kind of zero turns they are running but my ZD 326 will take you to about any angle you got the guts go take it. I have never run a mower of any kind that will work on any steeper hill. Across or up and down. I have a ZG 222 as well. It does pretty good also but it will slide some especially trying to turn right going downhill if it is too steep.

 

[Carscw]

I don't know what kind of mower you are running and I don't know what kind of zero turns they are running but my ZD 326 will take you to about any angle you got the guts go take it. I have never run a mower of any kind that will work on any steeper hill. Across or up and down. I have a ZG 222 as well. It does pretty good also but it will slide some especially trying to turn right going downhill if it is too steep.

At 1,700 pounds and more money than it's worth the 326 sucks on wet hills or wet ground period leaves to any tire tracks.
The mower you choose to use should do any job that comes your way.
Yes I cut hills for guys that have scag and kabota ZTRs they are just to heavy when the ground is wet. They just turn everything to mud.

To put any ztr on a 45 degree hill is foolish
They are not made for it.