As told, I bought a JD 180 from Weeks Machinery. Paid $650+ 250 shipping. Glad I did not get the 220 cause the transport axles stick out too far and I would not have been able to get it in the back yard gate. They shipped it via ABF. Only took 2 days to get it from Georgia to Texas. It was supposed to get shipped to my local JD dealer. Not sure what happened and there seemed to be some confusion and triangulation going on. Weeks seem to be in a big hurry and get it gone. They did not even wait for the check to clear and put it on a truck the minute they got the check. So I got a call asking when I wanted to come get it from the freight HUB and picked it up myself. Probably saved me from getting milked by the JD dealer for basic maintenance I can do myself and I picked it up on my time instead of waiting on deliveries and whatnot.
Slightly more rough condition than I expected. But I did a look over and gave the pull start a rip. It fired up on the first pull, controls all seem to work, it runs (won't idle) and I tested the reel buy cutting an aircraft landing strip in the middle of the yard to get a feel for it and see if the reel even cuts at all. It did, a total scalp right down to the dirt. LOL.
Original thoughts: Its a heavy beast and the front end feels like it wants to lift when you push it. Almost seems you have to lift up on the handle to prevent it.
I'll mess with a few days (supposed to rain all week) and see what I think. Worst case.....it scalps really good! I was surprised it got grass at all that was probably 1-1/2" or so tall.
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Slightly more rough condition than I expected. But I did a look over and gave the pull start a rip. It fired up on the first pull, controls all seem to work, it runs (won't idle) and I tested the reel buy cutting an aircraft landing strip in the middle of the yard to get a feel for it and see if the reel even cuts at all. It did, a total scalp right down to the dirt. LOL.
Original thoughts: Its a heavy beast and the front end feels like it wants to lift when you push it. Almost seems you have to lift up on the handle to prevent it.
I'll mess with a few days (supposed to rain all week) and see what I think. Worst case.....it scalps really good! I was surprised it got grass at all that was probably 1-1/2" or so tall.
