My wife bought me a 104 about two months. Yes they do cost $25,000.00. That's the only thing I don't like about one. Aside from that it is a great mowing machine. I had a John Deere XL 279 before and it took me eight hours to mow my lawn. With the 104 a little over a hour your done. It's a lot of fun to run. I actually find myself mowing more than I use too. It does a much better job of mowing than the John Deere. The wings on it, you are suppose to run the cylinders all the way out. Maybe I'll make a video of it and put it up. Oh I'm not a professorial company just a private owner. I love the machine.
have a grasshopper pickup, 2 ariens mulchers, 2 hustler z and a great dane pickup mostly diesel but the z is short on power i presume this is the same? that grass is very short
That thing rides really rough, I would have got a full suspension Ferris they ride like cadillacs~ Ferris can cut a ton with a fuel efficient kawasaki engine or a Catapillar diesel engine~ 72 cut is all I need, if you want the biggest ever Lastec has a 120 cut, it's the world's biggest zero turn~
I like the mower and I'm a big fan of hustler mowers, but like any mower it has its goods and bads. Nice wife cut and looks like it makes a clean cut but should have put a diesel on it and figured out the rear discharge on it, not saying it's bad but if you don't clean the mower off after you use it then that's begging for something to mess up with the way that gas is hitting it I can only imagine what the underneath the rear of the mower looks like
We cut whole solar farms that are 8 feet tall with these things. The hustler 104s are fuckin beast but are pricy to fix. Very worth it if you have some serious field/acreage to cut.
Hustler designed that to make it so that you don't have to trim around beds or ridges the won't drops into the ridge to cut it and not have to hand edge it.
I hear that Exmark owns over 50% of the commercial lawn mowers sales. My neighbor that mowers our grass has a Kabota 24HP Diesel with 60" cut and it does an excellent job and he can mower 3 huge yards on 5 gallons of fuel.
That is a rough ass lot. I'd tell the owner to get that shit leveled off. Tears things up bouncing around. Have fun cleaning the center deck out mowing all that wet slop.
Cold weather grass is easier to stripe than warm weather grass warm weather grass has to be trained to stripe come on down here and stripe some of this warm weather grass that never been stripe I think the hustler doing a good job compared to the kind of grass it’s working with and then it’s wet
Hustlers 72" mower is more productive than this 104". Hustler claims 9.24 acres per hour on the 104", 9.31 on the 72". For the price of this machine, you could buy two 72" mowers and have twice the production. Not to mention the wings on that thing flopping around im sure gives you an uneven cut.
I don't know where you live, but in Georgia, i haven't met to many contractors who pay $15 hr to operate a mower. We have toro/exmark, gravely, hustler, and grass hopper, and i have never seen a $14,000 rough cut mower on the floor. Highest price tag i ever seen for a rough cut mower would be around $12,500 which is half of what that 104" cost. If your cutting large properties, i'm sure your not gonna send one person to a job with this mower. Your already paying another person to be there, so if hustler claims twice the production out of two 72" mowers, why not have two mowers going? Additionally if one mower goes down, your not totally out of the game. Maybe i'm wrong for saying this, i don't have much experience cutting with rough cut mowers, most of what we use here are walker mowers. We bag everything, no clumps of grass left behind. I understand the fact that 104" is wider than 72", i don't understand why hustler claims why its not as productive unless its under powered and slower.
On our big propeties we usually have 3-60 ,72, and that 104" a bagger ,4 whacker /blower dudes Each machine shine in its own spots ,nothing compares to the 104 in those open areas,the other machines up close around high traffic spots to make the kool desighns, works for us .Also we are in the upper midwest and thats what we pay our operators,if u can fill the seat lol
Back when I had my lawn service I recorded my time on bagging vs not bagging and it was double. Plus more equipment needed. Bagging should cost more than double in my opinion. It takes a while to add accounts with larger mostly open lawns, which is what I did. I didn’t like the blur of the day mowing 8+ small lawns so I focused only on 1 acre and up lawns. A mower that big could use a 45 to 50 horsepower engine. I’d also look into HDAP rear tires for better traction. That back lawn sure is bumpy.
Yup. Cut quality is shit, footprint is crazy heavy, maintenance points are through the roof. Toro and Lastec tested this years ago. If you're less than 10ft of cut width, you can't beat a 72" zero turn. That's why their 455 and 4100 series front mounts use 126" decks... and the after cut appearance still sucks.
Landscaping and lawn care prices are very regional. What this guy charges some might think is a total rip and others would be telling him he isn't charging enough.
I think I'd rather just have 72 inch zero turns for big properties like the one in video. We do large gov housing contracts and use Tractors with 12 foot Batwing mowers, 60 inch zero turns.
@@BrokeTheGamer how the hell do you edge with that big ass guard on there, how do you see what your doing. Take that gay thing off put some 105 in it run it out an inch further than the guard was and you would be surprised what a difference it makes. And no I don't ever have to replace clutches that's a myth
@@gleanerman2195 its like everything else bro, EPA, safety, lawsuits, etc. We run em 12 hours a day i think i know what i'm talkin about, you take that gay guard off that limits your string length, put 105 on it, run it an inch further than the guard would allow, pull the spark arrestor out of muffler discharge so the damm thing can breath, and wow what a difference. Plus you can actually see what the hell your doing, we use string trimmers to do all the edging with as well and i cant even imagine trying to edge with that guard on there. I pull mine off at the shop i deal with when i buy a new one and just leave it there, then pull the screen out of exaust before i ever even start it. Been doing that 32 years now....Roost
I tested one 2 yrs ago...very slow and cumbersome. Tested a 100" lastec several yrs ago...even slower and more cumbersome and a really crappy cut. Guy doing demo got mad because my guy on my 61" Scag TT was running circles around it!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
Cody schrader I'm the guy that runs the mower every day, with the rear discharge, it is harder than you think to keep it clean, that by the way is only two days after being cleaned.
That grass looked like it was still a bit wet and thus why the deck looked messy, it sticks around a while until it eventually dries up, just takes a garden hosing to clean up for the most part, its going to get dirty again anyway even if you make it spotless. The self cleaning feature is what I like about some mowers with hose attachment.
Its pretty ridiculous that thing don't have a DIESEL ENGINE! I would never buy it just for the simple fact it has a gasoline engine! I'll be a buyer when they get serious with some real torque! Just my farmers opinion. Other than that, this thing looks like a good machine, but count me out until they install a DIESEL!
As cheap as gas is, yes it has its downsides when it comes to certain big jobs. thus why you rarely see a gasoline powered semi let alone efficient gasoline sipping pickup or straight truck. Nothing beats the strength of a diesel except for electric traction motors.
I have to agree. My 12' wide Range Wing has a Kubota and nothing stops it. I mow a 7 acre yard in less than 2 hours and that's around about 100 trees. Looked at one of these at the fair this year. 26 grand and a GAS MOTOR?
Im a Husrler fan it is all I buys for work but I demo'ed one four yrs ago and it to me isn't worth 30k Id rather have something smaller and a single deck these just bounce worst then anything Ive owned.
Buddy, that machine isn’t going to cut your time in half over a crew of 60s and 72s...!😂😂😂 . Do the math, it’s only 104”... One 60 and 72” is 122”, plus the machines have a much higher ground speed. A good operator on a 72” super z And flex forks could
terrible stripes, rattles your brains out, deck gets clogged and most of all this machine falls on its face when it comes to power. john deere wins it, wet, tall, stripes, even discharge and it's affordable
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Ive been hanging to see this machine actually working! Very rough ground there and seemed to do pretty well.
you would be surprised how good it does on the wet stuff the key to making it look good is too drive faster helps spread the clippings better
Nothing like a good ol’ Briggs and Stratton 37 hp “Vantage”! Music to my ears!
I would have never gotten one of these contraptions started if he had not shown us. What a unique start!
My wife bought me a 104 about two months. Yes they do cost $25,000.00. That's the only thing I don't like about one. Aside from that it is a great mowing machine. I had a John Deere XL 279 before and it took me eight hours to mow my lawn. With the 104 a little over a hour your done. It's a lot of fun to run. I actually find myself mowing more than I use too. It does a much better job of mowing than the John Deere. The wings on it, you are suppose to run the cylinders all the way out. Maybe I'll make a video of it and put it up. Oh I'm not a professorial company just a private owner. I love the machine.
Does your wife have a sister?
See I have a JD X320 with a 48' and I can mow half an acre in about 20-30 minutes. But I really like hustlers and I may get one
here in Australia they are over $96000 so $25000 is cheap, compared to Ferris IX6200 72" is $68000
i see there is a fair amount of flex on those wings to follow the terrain , nice !
Wowzers thats a big place! That would be so much fun to mow!!!!!
Beautiful video
Beautiful mower
have a grasshopper pickup, 2 ariens mulchers, 2 hustler z and a great dane pickup mostly diesel but the z is short on power i presume this is the same? that grass is very short
What is your cost per hour running that 104" ?
That thing rides really rough, I would have got a full suspension Ferris they ride like cadillacs~ Ferris can cut a ton with a fuel efficient kawasaki engine or a Catapillar diesel engine~ 72 cut is all I need, if you want the biggest ever Lastec has a 120 cut, it's the world's biggest zero turn~
I like the mower and I'm a big fan of hustler mowers, but like any mower it has its goods and bads. Nice wife cut and looks like it makes a clean cut but should have put a diesel on it and figured out the rear discharge on it, not saying it's bad but if you don't clean the mower off after you use it then that's begging for something to mess up with the way that gas is hitting it I can only imagine what the underneath the rear of the mower looks like
We cut whole solar farms that are 8 feet tall with these things. The hustler 104s are fuckin beast but are pricy to fix. Very worth it if you have some serious field/acreage to cut.
If you were spreading your wings 104 inches would you get good gas mileage efi or not it not going to happen with A mower under that kind of stress
No suspension on that..... Also did I just hear let her rip tator chip... lol
Hustler designed that to make it so that you don't have to trim around beds or ridges the won't drops into the ridge to cut it and not have to hand edge it.
Actually it’s a 96 inch and will have a video up shortly of it running
I hear that Exmark owns over 50% of the commercial lawn mowers sales. My neighbor that mowers our grass has a Kabota 24HP Diesel with 60" cut and it does an excellent job and he can mower 3 huge yards on 5 gallons of fuel.
That hustler gets about 1 mile to the gallon going down the mountain
That's a whole lot of money in them 2 mowers. But they do cut nicely.
Is it belt driven to the wings or can you operate with one wing up or the other
No, wings have to be down from what other owners are saying , all or nothing.
That is a rough ass lot. I'd tell the owner to get that shit leveled off. Tears things up bouncing around. Have fun cleaning the center deck out mowing all that wet slop.
Cold weather grass is easier to stripe than warm weather grass warm weather grass has to be trained to stripe come on down here and stripe some of this warm weather grass that never been stripe I think the hustler doing a good job compared to the kind of grass it’s working with and then it’s wet
im getting the 104 and a super 88
How many acres is that place?
Hustlers 72" mower is more productive than this 104". Hustler claims 9.24 acres per hour on the 104", 9.31 on the 72". For the price of this machine, you could buy two 72" mowers and have twice the production. Not to mention the wings on that thing flopping around im sure gives you an uneven cut.
dont froget another 72" 14k? another operator 15hr? The 104" cut huge acreage accts. half time time of our 72 Exmark,check out little vid on the 72 X
I don't know where you live, but in Georgia, i haven't met to many contractors who pay $15 hr to operate a mower. We have toro/exmark, gravely, hustler, and grass hopper, and i have never seen a $14,000 rough cut mower on the floor. Highest price tag i ever seen for a rough cut mower would be around $12,500 which is half of what that 104" cost. If your cutting large properties, i'm sure your not gonna send one person to a job with this mower. Your already paying another person to be there, so if hustler claims twice the production out of two 72" mowers, why not have two mowers going? Additionally if one mower goes down, your not totally out of the game. Maybe i'm wrong for saying this, i don't have much experience cutting with rough cut mowers, most of what we use here are walker mowers. We bag everything, no clumps of grass left behind. I understand the fact that 104" is wider than 72", i don't understand why hustler claims why its not as productive unless its under powered and slower.
On our big propeties we usually have 3-60 ,72, and that 104" a bagger ,4 whacker /blower dudes Each machine shine in its own spots ,nothing compares to the 104 in those open areas,the other machines up close around high traffic spots to make the kool desighns, works for us .Also we are in the upper midwest and thats what we pay our operators,if u can fill the seat lol
Back when I had my lawn service I recorded my time on bagging vs not bagging and it was double. Plus more equipment needed. Bagging should cost more than double in my opinion. It takes a while to add accounts with larger mostly open lawns, which is what I did. I didn’t like the blur of the day mowing 8+ small lawns so I focused only on 1 acre and up lawns. A mower that big could use a 45 to 50 horsepower engine. I’d also look into HDAP rear tires for better traction. That back lawn sure is bumpy.
Yup. Cut quality is shit, footprint is crazy heavy, maintenance points are through the roof. Toro and Lastec tested this years ago. If you're less than 10ft of cut width, you can't beat a 72" zero turn. That's why their 455 and 4100 series front mounts use 126" decks... and the after cut appearance still sucks.
I wouldn't be cutting wet grass with that😂😂
Michael Miles I totally agree with you
That thing is Massive!!!
How much you charge a client for a job that size
Landscaping and lawn care prices are very regional. What this guy charges some might think is a total rip and others would be telling him he isn't charging enough.
I think I'd rather just have 72 inch zero turns for big properties like the one in video. We do large gov housing contracts and use Tractors with 12 foot Batwing mowers, 60 inch zero turns.
How has the xmark 72 held is it worth buying?
rock solid machine ,the engine has plenty of power and cut quality is top notch
man i cant believe you guys dont take those guards off the weedeaters, nobody here in Texas runs a eater with a guard on it
Strange, No one here in Tennessee calls a weed eater an "Eater"
@@BrokeTheGamer how the hell do you edge with that big ass guard on there, how do you see what your doing. Take that gay thing off put some 105 in it run it out an inch further than the guard was and you would be surprised what a difference it makes. And no I don't ever have to replace clutches that's a myth
I guess the more talented can run with them on like it was made to do.
@@gleanerman2195 its like everything else bro, EPA, safety, lawsuits, etc. We run em 12 hours a day i think i know what i'm talkin about, you take that gay guard off that limits your string length, put 105 on it, run it an inch further than the guard would allow, pull the spark arrestor out of muffler discharge so the damm thing can breath, and wow what a difference. Plus you can actually see what the hell your doing, we use string trimmers to do all the edging with as well and i cant even imagine trying to edge with that guard on there. I pull mine off at the shop i deal with when i buy a new one and just leave it there, then pull the screen out of exaust before i ever even start it. Been doing that 32 years now....Roost
cuts great
Then again exmark has came out with a 96 inch that has gold down side decks the same as the hustler just a smaller cut
1:59 Did he just say that....
lol
Jon Wojcik hahahaha🤣
If you're going to make it a 104 inch deck then they should put more horsepower on it
A 40 hp diesel would be good. It weighs like 2300 pounds.
What brand of discharge chute do you have on the exmark 72"
Advance chute system
I tested one 2 yrs ago...very slow and cumbersome. Tested a 100" lastec several yrs ago...even slower and more cumbersome and a really crappy cut. Guy doing demo got mad because my guy on my 61" Scag TT was running circles around it!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's a rear discharge so it's not gonna stripe.
she is a keeper
That’s a lot of mower!
yea they make things happen
Clean up that 104, those things gotta be great covering all of that ground.
Cody schrader I'm the guy that runs the mower every day, with the rear discharge, it is harder than you think to keep it clean, that by the way is only two days after being cleaned.
That grass looked like it was still a bit wet and thus why the deck looked messy, it sticks around a while until it eventually dries up, just takes a garden hosing to clean up for the most part, its going to get dirty again anyway even if you make it spotless. The self cleaning feature is what I like about some mowers with hose attachment.
it's nice, but not nice as ferris is5100 74 inch, but 33 HP desil, no suspension on wheel causing discomfort
man those Farris's are garbage, they got completely run outta town here where i live, their stuff is nice but wont hold up
Hugeroost my grandpa has run a is5100z for the past 20 years just basic maintenance
Edit.. equal if not better the time of this 104, not to mention leave a much nicer cut.
Nice nice
Its pretty ridiculous that thing don't have a DIESEL ENGINE! I would never buy it just for the simple fact it has a gasoline engine! I'll be a buyer when they get serious with some real torque! Just my farmers opinion. Other than that, this thing looks like a good machine, but count me out until they install a DIESEL!
As cheap as gas is, yes it has its downsides when it comes to certain big jobs. thus why you rarely see a gasoline powered semi let alone efficient gasoline sipping pickup or straight truck. Nothing beats the strength of a diesel except for electric traction motors.
I have to agree. My 12' wide Range Wing has a Kubota and nothing stops it. I mow a 7 acre yard in less than 2 hours and that's around about 100 trees. Looked at one of these at the fair this year. 26 grand and a GAS MOTOR?
jtarman70 I was just setting here thinking as much as I like hustler mowers I didn't understand why they didn't slap a diesel on it
Maybe because of the heavyweight, the complexity, more expensive and the loudness...
I know that should have a Diesel engine
my next mower
Im a Husrler fan it is all I buys for work but I demo'ed one four yrs ago and it to me isn't worth 30k Id rather have something smaller and a single deck these just bounce worst then anything Ive owned.
That guy doesn’t know how to use the whole deck when he mows
Really did u have to say that a black guy what's that supost to mean 4:57
this machine here and 1 other guy on the black one. thats what he said. talking about the black frame mower
Easy there SJW
Nice mower
Look like the guy with the weed eater is cutting grass that the mowers can cut that some thing he should know work smart not hard.
I take a ventrac with dually wheels and a wide area deck
Definitely not a mower for striping
Buddy, that machine isn’t going to cut your time in half over a crew of 60s and 72s...!😂😂😂 . Do the math, it’s only 104”... One 60 and 72” is 122”, plus the machines have a much higher ground speed. A good operator on a 72” super z And flex forks could
Cr500rider Where did you go to school? Where I went to school 60 and 72 equal 132 inches
But you have less people working and it's only one machine making turns. If you have two machines running you are losing time when they both turn.
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The ExMark does a much better job.
He looks very uncomfortable
YES good and fast BUT if you do not pick the cut grass up every 2nd or 3rd mowing you will NOT get a good looking lawn , so NO good for cricket fields
thats why we aerate and de thatch
Try a Husqvarna Pz 60 or 72, guarantee you won't run any other mower. They are bad ass.
terrible stripes, rattles your brains out, deck gets clogged and most of all this machine falls on its face when it comes to power. john deere wins it, wet, tall, stripes, even discharge and it's affordable
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Cuts like poop
nephilly87 the grass is wet, it doesn’t mean it cuts bad
It cuts bad. I demoed one and I tried the new Exmark 96. They both cut like crap.
If you were spreading your wings 104 inches would you get good gas mileage efi or not it not going to happen with A mower under that kind of stress