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<blockquote data-quote="Rez Exelon" data-source="post: 3245787" data-attributes="member: 5800">I go through lots of mowers --- mainly because I fix them and sell them when people don&#039;t take care of them. Mainly I do John Deere stuff because it seems to run forever and is easy to work on. For what it&#039;s worth, you probably don&#039;t want a &quot;lawn tractor&quot;. At minimum you want a &quot;garden tractor&quot;. The difference is that the transmissions on the garden ones tend to be a lot heavier duty. for doing three acres that will buy you a lot more speed, and buy you a lot more pulling power for a lawn tractor, stumps, accessories, etc. I&#039;d be rolling the x520 I had ALLL day long if it wasn&#039;t for the fact that I have 1/3 acre and it was a bit over kill. My personal recommendation would be to look at what&#039;s out there on the used market (FB/CL) for the garden series tractors, or even the older tractors with a belly mower. If you can hitch stuff up then all the better. If I was really pressed to go between the two of those, I&#039;d probably take the Cub. I looked at that one a lot and really liked it, but then decided to just quit being lazy and replace the piston rings in my LA145.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rez Exelon, post: 3245787, member: 5800"] I go through lots of mowers --- mainly because I fix them and sell them when people don't take care of them. Mainly I do John Deere stuff because it seems to run forever and is easy to work on. For what it's worth, you probably don't want a "lawn tractor". At minimum you want a "garden tractor". The difference is that the transmissions on the garden ones tend to be a lot heavier duty. for doing three acres that will buy you a lot more speed, and buy you a lot more pulling power for a lawn tractor, stumps, accessories, etc. I'd be rolling the x520 I had ALLL day long if it wasn't for the fact that I have 1/3 acre and it was a bit over kill. My personal recommendation would be to look at what's out there on the used market (FB/CL) for the garden series tractors, or even the older tractors with a belly mower. If you can hitch stuff up then all the better. If I was really pressed to go between the two of those, I'd probably take the Cub. I looked at that one a lot and really liked it, but then decided to just quit being lazy and replace the piston rings in my LA145. [/QUOTE]

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