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You don't say if you have trees or not. In any case, once you try a zero turn mower, you will never, ever again, want to use a regular riding mower. Zero turns are fast and you can easily work close to stuff without backing and repositioning. If you do need to back and turn, its just the flick of the levers. If some of the areas you will be mowing are semi rough, the grass being sparse and having twigs and leaves or pinestraw and simply just needs cleaning up a couple of times a year, you want the heavy deck of a true commercial mower to handle the extra bashing it will take. I messed with cheap riding mowers for my measly 3 acres and finally realized I could buy one, virtually unbreakable commercial mower that would last the rest of my life if I took care of it. I spent $7000 and bought a 25 hp Kohler, 52 inch deck zero turn and love it. Wouldn't have anything else. There are numerous brands on the market, Scag, Great Dane, Toro, Dixie Chopper, Gravely, Jacobsen, Land Pride, and a whole bunch more I cannot ever think of right now. Beware. There is a growing market for comsumer quality zero turn mowers, and many companies who up to now have been making regular tractor type riders have jumped on the bandwagon. Cub Cadet, Aherins (sp), simplicity, and several others. These are cheap, consumer quality units, designed to break and wear out in a few mowing seawons, just like all their other products. If it has a stamped out steel mower deck, its probably a cheap comsumer mower. I know it sounds crazy to spend $6000 to $8000 for a mower, but the cheap consumer ones are around $2000 now for the higher end (read that as enough horsepower, and big enough deck) and buy three or four of those in your life time and how much have you spent in mowers and repairs ???? Charles
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