Outdoor Power Equipment (Lawn Mowers, Snow Blowers, Chain Saws and more) Discussions

Havener Enterprises Inc. commercial mowers are sold under various  brand names in the United States and other countries:

32 inch Belt Drive

10.5 HP Briggs or 15 HP Kohler engine

	5 Speed Peerless Transmission
	9 Spline Couplers
	Grease Zerks on Spindles
	Dual Belt Drive
	Two 16" Blades

My dealer really seems to like this model over the Exmark of the same size.  The 10.5 Briggs will do my  yard for years! (I am not planning to do other yards or make money with this)

So, What do you think??? Pull the trigger???

This mower will replace my 2000 Scotts 21" 6.5 Intek mower....so yup! Should be a lot faster:-) That Scotts was soooo sloooow!

Around here I see Scag's/Xmarks all over the place! Scags are the most popular I would say. There is also one guy who only has Toro in his trailer. Then a bunch of these Havener Enterprises type mowers. My dealer said "Bradley" was a newer name while Red Hawk  was older. However, they are all really the same machine.  As far as quality goes, I really inspected both this Bradley 32 and the Xmark  Metro 32.  No wonder he could not sell the Xmark!  Just to give you an idea, the large drive belt that goes to each wheel was 1/2 the size of the Bradley. But as soon as you went up  the Xmark  line it became just like the Bradley. He said that  Bradley  was the way to go for the true profesional (Which I am not) in the 32 size, but if you wanted a bigger machine, they go Xmark hands down.  When I go to pick it up, I will try to snap some pictures to show you what I mean.

As for the company, it just seems like the parent company makes different brands maybe to keep people from price shopping...however they are all priced the same from brand to brand. Odd isn't it? Anyhow, here are some links on this company that makes this mower:

http://www.bradleymowers.com/

http://www.redhawk-usa.com/

Also I went and looked at the Scags...can someone tell me why they are sooooo much money? Do they have a feature that knowbody else does?
My dealer also showed me an OLD/ rusted walk behind that had very small hard front tires and a small gas tank. It was like a burnt orange color.  He went on to say that  when Scag came out, they were one of the first to use a nice big front tire and a large gas tank. Now everybody is doing the oversize tank and big front wheels. Scag also relized that the professionals wanted more walking speed and they gave it to them. How much of this story is true?

This is what I have learned about  the commercial walk behind mowers in just my short time with using them.  They are all pretty much the same! The only thing I really see a diffrent about them is the controlsand maybe a slight diffrence on the decks, other than that I think they all pretty much run the same  gear box and either a kohler or a kaw. Thats just my opinion on them. later Mike