[AT] ZTR mower follow up

[charlie hill]

Thanks Dave.

-----Original Message----- 
From: David Rotigel
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2014 8:02 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] ZTR mower follow up

If, after you try it out once Charlie, you decide you made a mistake and 
want to sell it and make $100.00 on the deal, LET ME KNOW!
Dave
PS, GOOD ON YOU!

On May 1, 2014, at 7:14 PM, charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com> wrote:

> Well I thought I'd tell everyone that responded to my enquiry what I did.
>
> A friend of mine who is semi-retired and does some mowing on the side
> was telling me he had just bought a new Dixon ZTR mower.   I asked him
> where he got it and about the dealer and told him I was looking for a ZTR.
> He said "I'll sell you my old one".   It's a Dixon Ram 50 Mag. which is
> from their commercial line.  it's a 50" cut, powered by a 20 hp Kohler 
> which
> he just had
> rebuilt by the dealer.  The mower has been dealer serviced ever since he's
> owned
> it.  If it coughs he takes it in to be checked.   It runs like a top.
> It's been garaged every night of it's life.  Brand new belts and Dixon's
> high end
> Grizzly blades.  The seat isn't even dirty.  674 hours on the meter.
> He sold it to me for $800.00.
>
> I mowed about an acre with it today.  It's tight and smooth.  Starts as 
> soon
> as
> you bump the starter.  No leaks, no smoke, no rattles.   The paint is even
> good
> with only a few scraped up spots on the edges of the mower deck where it's
> rubbed
> stuff.  I'm tickled.  I figure if I can mow my yard all of this year with
> out problems it won't
> owe me a dime since it would cost me that much to hire this yard mowed for 
> a
> season.
>
> Here's a link to one like it on the Dixon site.
> http://www.dixon-sales.com/ram44_50.html
> They don't make that model any longer but the machines that replaced it 
> are
> almost identical.
>
> Charlie
>
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