When I was shopping for a zero turn I wanted a gravely because I had heard good things from people and we had an old gravely L years ago that had the multi spindle finish mower. Asked my dealer I am in good with what they thought about them and all they said was go talk to the dealer down the street first. So I did. The other dealer told me they discontinued selling their products due to high warranty rate for a bunch of pittly things that would render the mower inoperable. Things like springs breaking, belts wearing/snapping, sloppy control linkages and other annoyances.
I have worked on a few different gravely ztrs and really don't care for their construction/design. And from what I can tell they are just a rebadged Ariens.
Really wanted a scag because I always seen them in my dealers showroom for years and a few family members have the high end pro machines and think highly of them. A few weeks before I really let my dealer know I was in the market to buy one they sent back all their scag products and went to a full line of toro. Previously they had half scag and half toro. Told me that they dropped scag due to they are real hard to deal with warranty claims and they like to always blame warranty damage on normal wear and tear or customer abuse. Scag also wants the dealer to increase sales 20% a year or they will pull your dealer advertising from their website. That's a lot of increase when you are already at 50k a year in sales. These guys are great people and don't think they have a reason to lie to me but, again, just what I have been told.
No real world experience with scag so take above with a grain of salt.
I pulled the trigger on a Toro entry commercial ztr and have been extremely pleased with it. Had it 2 years now and have just under 150 hours on it and have had no problems this far. So, if you want to hear more about my actual experience with toro I'd love to talk more!
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@WillG I do not mean to rain on your new scag at all. That mower is 10 times what that husky was. That is a fact!
