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Over the weekend I purchased a Toro 30" Timemaster push mower which has great reviews, however, I keep going back and forth about getting a riding mower.
My property is a little over half an acre, mostly flat and open but with some trees. I just moved into the house last fall and the previous owner neglected the property and it will need to get aerated shortly here and I need it to get dethatched because of all the dead stuff still around. I can hire someone to do this, but I think they will charge me around $100 for aeration (or close to it) and I'm not sure on dethatching, but I imagine its around the same. It looks like you can purchase tow behind dethatchers for ~$150 and you can get a aerator that's tow behind anywhere from $200-$400.
If I plan on aerating say twice a year, at some point having my own equipment would be nice.
At the same time if I do that I need a riding mower and I subscribe to consumer reports, but lots of the reviews on the big box store models are not positive and sounds like if you get one, definitely get the coverage plan for it. I don't have a budget to pay more than $2,000 for the riding more itself and would rather keep what I have now rather than pay for crap.
What do people think? Recommendations on a riding mower if I go down that route? I can take the Toro back to Home Depot easily since its still brand new.
It would also be neat to get a snow thrower attachment for it as well and sell my snow thrower I have.
My property is a little over half an acre, mostly flat and open but with some trees. I just moved into the house last fall and the previous owner neglected the property and it will need to get aerated shortly here and I need it to get dethatched because of all the dead stuff still around. I can hire someone to do this, but I think they will charge me around $100 for aeration (or close to it) and I'm not sure on dethatching, but I imagine its around the same. It looks like you can purchase tow behind dethatchers for ~$150 and you can get a aerator that's tow behind anywhere from $200-$400.
If I plan on aerating say twice a year, at some point having my own equipment would be nice.
At the same time if I do that I need a riding mower and I subscribe to consumer reports, but lots of the reviews on the big box store models are not positive and sounds like if you get one, definitely get the coverage plan for it. I don't have a budget to pay more than $2,000 for the riding more itself and would rather keep what I have now rather than pay for crap.
What do people think? Recommendations on a riding mower if I go down that route? I can take the Toro back to Home Depot easily since its still brand new.
It would also be neat to get a snow thrower attachment for it as well and sell my snow thrower I have.