09/20/2025
Read this…. If you are shopping for a mower!
We participated in a Grand Opening of a dealer recently by setting up an Obstacle Course. This course had some curves, a fence to get under, retrieve some hankies to mimic needing a free hand to hold away a tree limb etc and a construction cone with a tennis ball on top of it to mimic not bumping into things that would get scratched if you did. The whole path is lined with blocks that if hit, they fall over. Each one of these things are counted as penalties.
We had 2 machines: 1 - 48” cut Walker Mower & 1 - 48” cut popular branded Mid Mount mower.
Here are the cumulated results of many contestants. Some of the contestants had owned both in their lifetime. Some had only had the Mid Mount Brand and some had only had a Walker. Every contestant did better on a Walker than the Mid Mount regardless whether they had owned/driven a Walker before.
2 Contestants removed from data due to extreme penalty misfortune/losing complete control of 1 or both machines.
Walker Avg Time: 53.6 s
Mid Mount Time: 81.7 s
Walker Penalties: 2.6
Mid Mount Penalties: 5.3
Walker Adjusted Time: 58.9 s
Mid Mount Adj Time: 92.3 s
Best Walker Adj Time: 30.3 s
Best Mid Mount Adj Time: 64.6 s
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