Robert28
Senior Member
I usually get a new zero turn every 5 or so years and they’ve always been John Deere’s. They always had the best overall value for what you got in my opinion. I think other manufacturers saw this and decided to do something about it. My friend runs a rather large mowing business and uses nothing but Exmark. I always vowed them as the expensive mower, in other words you gotta drop $10 grand whereas Deere I could get a solid commercial zero turn for $7000-7500. Well, I decided to go look at Exmark today and wow they’ve really decided to play ball and steal some of Deere’s shine away when it comes to value in an entry level commercial mower! Sure they still have the $10,000 mowers, and I looked at them. But they now have the Radius line which is their entry level commercial mowers targeted at exactly at customers like me. For $7599 you get a commercial 52” deck (60” was $8099 I think), air ride suspension seat, Kawasaki fx engine, hydro gear 3100 hydros (wish it had 3400 but it still has a 9mph top speed whereas my older mowers only went 10 anyways), just an overall solid mower. Felt more solid than my old Deere to be honest. Only place where they’ve cheaped out that I can see is no gas gauge (you get this stupid sight thing), cup holder is prettt small and useless and no tray for storage. And the deck is an UltraCut 3 which is the deck they used on their Lazer Z’s 
back in the early to mid 2000’s. Basically they’re taking technology from their older commercial mowers and passing on the cheaper cost which is fine by me. Those old decks will cut grass, I’ve seen what they can do!
back in the early to mid 2000’s. Basically they’re taking technology from their older commercial mowers and passing on the cheaper cost which is fine by me. Those old decks will cut grass, I’ve seen what they can do!
