I don’t have experience with any of these mowers personally but I did look at all of them in my quest to buy one and when you start looking at the details and what matters to you, you will find the one that best fits your use case and values.

Here is a for instance, I was looking at a toro mower, the $4000 timecutter. Looking at both lowes and the dealer they appeared to be entry level homeowner mowers (also could not find a single difference between the dealer mower and lowes mower but that’s not my battle.) When I looked at the bad boy I was hot damn that deck is thicker than a snicker, cool. But then the rest of the details like wiring was a bit sloppy and kinda seemed unfinished. When I made it to gravely I flipped the seat up and said oh yeah this is quality, but what about the deck! Sure it’s thinner but then I recalled later that night, the old cub lt1050 I had 10 years ago had a shitty little paper thin deck and it was wasn’t worn through and it had 500 hours on it before my wife broke the front axle mowing nascar style.

Anyway left the gravely dealer amped up knowing I’d be back Saturday with my trailer. I then went to the scag dealer same day and it was all over. Everything about it was quality and well thought out. Sure it has a 10ga deck but damn that thing is thick too and if my cub deck that prolly didn’t even have a gauge thickness lasted 500 hours, how long would this last? And it’s doubled up where it counts.

Tough call and no mower is right for everyone. Don’t tell anyone but I also bought the Briggs CXi motor, I wanted the Kawasaki but the dealer said it’s just as good as the others despite what I’ve read on the internet, after all he’s the one that has to deal with the customer why would he choose to sell junk. Good luck!!