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Message: <blockquote data-quote="VIKING" data-source="post: 2767908" data-attributes="member: 16840"><p>It may just depend on when you would rather spend your money..Pay more now for a Deere or buy a little cheaper and spend some on repairs..My son bought one of the Lowes Deere's a few years ago and we  rebuilt the mowing deck the second year..New bearings and later on the same year I was welding the wheel brackets back on the deck..It has a briggs motor..On the other hand I bought a little LX 176 with a 14 horse Kawasaki motor from the John Deere dealer 19 years ago and still running the same bearings in the deck..Changed the plug for the first time this year..I mow not quite 3 acres and the thing just won't quit..at the time it cost me about 3 times (3100 dollars) what one from Atwoods would have cost and it's probably lasted about as long as 3 of the cheaper mowers...I guess that makes it a wash..</p></blockquote><p></p>