I would agree with JD Seller, I see quite a few of both low hour/use homeowner grade to real decent garden tractors up to sub compact or whatever you want to call em. Always something to look at and ponder with these, given price, age, condition and how well it was maintained. I've fooled with these since the 70's as a kid, from a JD 110 to many of the homeowner lawn tractors, and I find that the latter not so well taken care of, after so many years, even though they can be cheap to buy, are nothing but a darned headache. At the other place, thats my fathers thing, cheap junk mowers, used to constantly have to repair and deal with them, just takes too much time for something that should be a lot more simple. From the deck to all the darned safety switches, people leave these things out and they just become unreliable pieces of junk.
I'd rather have an old school mower of the JD110 era, newer or same era, much later model, better quality garden tractor or like JD suggests, than even a new low quality tractor. I've seen enough of the newer ones, not too bad, costly, but in '08 I just decided that a new LA 135 limited edition JD would fit what I do, sure I could use a larger and more capable garden tractor, no doubt, but living within ones means, you draw a line, and I am sure one day I will go larger, likely new or late model low hours/use, would be nice to have a tiller on one of these and a blower with a removable cab or similar for winter snow removal. Something to look forward to one day at least LOL !
The LA 135, turns better than the L110 or whatever the previous model I had was, it has much more torque, I prefer Kohler, but the B&S at 22 HP, just out performs the 17.5 Kohler in the previous one, likes more fuel too, but..... The larger seat, thats just a must have, good leg room, its easy to maintain, and both had the same 42" deck, but if the grass gets one up on you, the B/S engine does not lug down, I love the power to weight ratio or whatever you call it, seems like a good reliable tractor, 25-35 hours per year, its just over 100 and some odd hours, the only appreciable wear I can see is in the steering sector and pinion gear, mostly the pinion gear, I think they all have this arrangement in this class of lawn tractor.
Though I got it from a JD dealer, the parts are commonly found at big box stores that carry the JD line, belts, blades, oil filters, air filters, off the web or what have you, so that helps. Annual maintenance, I run it a few times in the off season, its a very reliable good performing lawn tractor and though new, which like you I don't do often, the price was fine was around 2K then, I forget now.
Regardless, I just happen to like this one, I see a bunch of others that like mine are garage kept and decent shape, both lawn and larger garden tractors, which I would not hesitate to look at closely, I'll leave the rolling scrap headache lawn tractors to someone else, did it for too long, and my neighbor across the lane still does, hers breaks down often enough to be annoying, the safety switches are usually the culprit, put a set of blades on it for her, as one had a nice bend in it. I hurt a muscle in my chest/shoulder with the breaker bar, took months to heal, had some mismatched mandrel that hold the blades and the new blades center was hard to set, excess space, did not like the fit, could have been the wrong blades, not sure. Got that done and it would not run, boat anchor in my driveway, cost me a whole afternoon, torn muscle, ended up a safety solenoid or what the heck it was on the carb. Hate these darned things that was the lawn tractor from hell, we had another at the other place, same deal, 2 am one night I finished repairing all it needed, grass was high.... Done with junk mowers that is for sure LOL !!!
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