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<blockquote data-quote="Mr.Glock" data-source="post: 4317599" data-attributes="member: 32877"><p>Here is the Gravely the Wife found at a Garage Sale $1500 9hrs on it.</p><p></p><p>Never owned a Gravely, it mows nice. I have owned Grasshoppers, Hustlers, one Country Clipper, one Scag, one Cub Cadet and this Gravely. They all gave me great service and I wore them out, except a Country Clipper. If memory serves they were either Kohler and Kawasaki engines in them.</p><p></p><p>The Country Clipper was a single Joy stick on the right to operate it, I hated it and kept it one summer only. Even though I have operated and owned several joystick Dozers, it was just a pain in the ass on a mower! But they are really popular and Mfg’d up north in Iowa. It did have a cool flip up deck, pull a pin and back up walla that deck would stand straight up for service work. But I despised that joy stick .</p><p></p><p>I had a “one year hit wonder” Cub Cadet, it was mower that got some of their engineers fired. Photo below.</p><p></p><p> It was called a ZT50. The previous years and after this one of these 38” mowers had 15 to 18 Hp engines in them. This one “one year only” had a 27HP liquid cooled Kawasaki engine in it for a 38” deck. It was a hell of a mowing machine. Looked like a big bumble bee when I got it. But I stripped off all the body eventually. I went to get a belt for it and the Dealer told me all about it, that the engineers thought to try the liquid cooled bigger engine and the cost was causing negative profits and they built just so many. I was wondering why such a small mower had a 27HP Liquid cooled engine in it. I wore out the deck and other major parts on it, and a friend still uses the engine in a big water pump on a trailer, still runs like a champ. I bought it at an auction.</p><p></p><p>Notice the controls and location of them it was the only draw back. It sucked to kinda have to hunch over, but again it was one mowing ************!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]505453[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]505454[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]505455[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]505464[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mr.Glock, post: 4317599, member: 32877"] Here is the Gravely the Wife found at a Garage Sale $1500 9hrs on it. Never owned a Gravely, it mows nice. I have owned Grasshoppers, Hustlers, one Country Clipper, one Scag, one Cub Cadet and this Gravely. They all gave me great service and I wore them out, except a Country Clipper. If memory serves they were either Kohler and Kawasaki engines in them. The Country Clipper was a single Joy stick on the right to operate it, I hated it and kept it one summer only. Even though I have operated and owned several joystick Dozers, it was just a pain in the ass on a mower! But they are really popular and Mfg’d up north in Iowa. It did have a cool flip up deck, pull a pin and back up walla that deck would stand straight up for service work. But I despised that joy stick . I had a “one year hit wonder” Cub Cadet, it was mower that got some of their engineers fired. Photo below. It was called a ZT50. The previous years and after this one of these 38” mowers had 15 to 18 Hp engines in them. This one “one year only” had a 27HP liquid cooled Kawasaki engine in it for a 38” deck. It was a hell of a mowing machine. Looked like a big bumble bee when I got it. But I stripped off all the body eventually. I went to get a belt for it and the Dealer told me all about it, that the engineers thought to try the liquid cooled bigger engine and the cost was causing negative profits and they built just so many. I was wondering why such a small mower had a 27HP Liquid cooled engine in it. I wore out the deck and other major parts on it, and a friend still uses the engine in a big water pump on a trailer, still runs like a champ. I bought it at an auction. Notice the controls and location of them it was the only draw back. It sucked to kinda have to hunch over, but again it was one mowing ************! [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_0569.png"]505453[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_3235.jpeg"]505454[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_0572.jpeg"]505455[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_0574.jpeg"]505464[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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