You can buy a car for the price of a Deere. That makes it a dream machine to me.
Sears is what we use, probably the most basic riding mower they sell.
How big is your yard? We have over an acre of lawn on very irregularly sloping land, and it’s important that Bryan does not have to spend his weekends keeping the lawn tractor in shape before he can even think of mowing, coring, mulching, fertilizing, and all the other tasks performed with the tractor.
The one he has his eye on is not the top of the line, but it is a good, sturdy mid-range model, appropriate for our little acre.
I have been boycotting Sears for 45 years since the totally ripped me off on some car repairs. I started to falter when we bought our first house, but they tried to cheat us again with mortgage shenanigans at the time, and that was the last straw. Sears is dead to me. They lost what might have been a life-long customer, as my mother was.