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@paulleblanc4653 I use weights and chains because I live on a cliff. The weights and chains are a game changer, for sure. But if your property is mildly sloped, you can easily get by with the machine as is sold stock.

@@paulleblanc4653 I'll also add that I do not use the electric lock in the rear axle/differential. The weights and chains give it so much traction that it's not needed.

@owenriggs8518 Everybody has their opinions, so you can't expect mine to be agreeable to everyone. I should do an update on this now that the machine has 6 summers under its belt and my son is using it for his lawn business.

@RKDriver There are a lot off supplements and health related items that are $0 ETV that you can use to keep your required numbers up.

@JoshAllen17Goated You didn't watch the video, obviously. The point is that at the price point, new from a dealer, with the new warranty.... no one at all competes at the value that this does. Go find me a unit at $4600 that even matches the Kawasaki/K66/fabricated deck of the Husqvarna being talked about here. I'll wait. If you can beat its price and at least match its build, I go buy it.

@@LarryMusgrave XT2 GX54D, has a much stronger fully welded steel frame instead of the stamped steel frame on the Husqvarna. A K62 while not a K66, only about 50 or so footpounds weaker. Fabricated 10 gauge steel 54 inch deck, with a lifetime warranty, 3 year, unlimited hour warranty on the entire machine. Kohler and Kawasaki engines available. LED lights, and is able to handle a johnny bucket unlike the Husqvarna glorified push mower with a seat says the maker of johnny products. $4699, I look forward to seeing it on your channel.

@@LarryMusgrave Screw new machines, why not come to your senses and buy an old GT? Anything built 15-20+ years ago is vastly superior to anything built today. You wont need a warranty if you’re mechanically inclined which I’m sure you are! Nothing wrong with a little elbow grease here and there for a vastly superior machine.

@jeffquinn5653 I did it last weekend, I'll be heading up there this evening after work. But from what I've seen, the smell disapaites greatly in about a week, and by 3 weeks the odor is pretty much gone. I plan to wait around 6 to 8 weeks and soak it down again. Then I think I could go around 10 years before I need to bathe it in oil again. Being hemlock, insects pretty much can't eat it or bore into it once it dries and hardens. Likely, after this initial treatment, that hemlock will will outlive my kids. It gets that hard.

@jeffquinn5653 Week 2,14 days later. I just got here, sitting on the porch, I still do smell it. It's medium level strong, not troublesome. My wife just said that it's not annoying, not giving her a headache or anything, but she noticed it. I'm thinking that the 3 week thing may be a little.... bull-shit. Regardless, I do still plan to respray it at the mid to end of August. I just can't afford to spend $500+ on store bought sealer stain.

$1000-$1200 for a valve job and new spark plugs is about typical. That's not a rip off. That said, if your a wrench, you can save around a Grand and cost yourself a weekend day to get to it and get measurements, order new shims and get them by next weekend, spend another full weekend day shimming and getting it back together, and do it yourself.

The Kawasaki is fairly loud, but much more smooth running than a similar sized Kohler V twin.

@@LarryMusgrave the engine is not as bad as the blades,

​@moshe2p That is the Husqvarna Clean Cut deck. It's actually an amazing deck with nearly unmatched airflow and suction. I also have a $14k Exmark Laser Z commercial zero turn, and I can say that the clear cut deck mows more smoothly, every time. It's that extreme commercial level airflow that your referring to. And that is a good thing. It's why, with maintained and sharp blades, you will have a perfectly smooth, golf course quality lawn.

Good eye. 2003 SVT Terminator, 6 speed, silver, vert, caged, Live 8.8 with 4.56, ceramic dual disk puck clutch, ported and re-geared blower, Aerospace Components brake system and I'm sure lots more that I've forgotten over the years. It's a low 10 second car on slicks and good driver. It's a high 10 second car on DOT slicks and me driving 😂

@@LarryMusgrave very nice! I don't have many "dream cars" but that is definitely one of them. Hey question do you still have the Concours 14 and if so does it still work out well for road trips with a passenger? What about the lack of cruise control?

Curious what you did for performance mods? And how long you been running things etc.

If you're in the United States, just Google federal tax rates 2023 and look at how the rates align with your annual income. Let's say you file joint with a spouse, make $150k a year, and you take $10k from Vine. Your new adjusted gross income is $160k. You did not jump to a new tax rate, but that vine $10k should be taxed at 22%. Then, you'll have your state and local tax if applicable. So call it $2500 tax burden for that $10k in stuff that you requested.

@@LarryMusgrave I'm a single person and I always get a Federal refund each year. It sounds like what I need to do is try to figure out how much I can order on the program to stay within the limits of what I usually get back each year, and just call it an even trade since I most likely am going to spend the refund anyway… essentially letting my tax refund pay my taxes on the products I would get through Vine if I get in the program, and try not to go overboard with it.

He's doing well. The bike now has just over 3500 miles on it.

Yes, it takes standard grade tubes like you have always used. I'm using the black Kubota branded tubes and everything fits like it does in my manual grease guns.

@@LarryMusgrave thanks 👍

The young brownish red one, Red has stopped being quite so loud. But the old girl, Angel.... she's a dang barking machine to the end of her days.

The weights help greatly with lifting the uphill tire. The weights and chains combined help greatly with traction, it will climb embankment that is steep enough that the front end lifts if your body isn't positioned as forward as possible. I recommend both the weights and the chains if your living on a hillside, like I do.

@@LarryMusgrave Thanks for the suggestion. I have the same tractor, a 2023 TS354XD, which is over kill for our property. We have a small yard that is sloped on one side and my tractor feels a bit light when I mow on it's incline. Sometimes I even mow up and down rather than horizontally in that area just to be safe. 🙂

I'm not a track guy, so I'm not into trail braking. The brakes are extremely strong and also able to be controlled easily. But if you need to get stopped in a big way with 400 lbs of humans on top, she will bite down and nearly toss you over the bars in my 2018. I've picked the rear tire up with front brakes before and the active breaking off.

Being that the kids use is only occasionally, I did an oil change one time in the spring. I still have this machine, I think it was around a model year 2002 or so, I still start it up now and again. My grandchildren are 2 and 4 years old, so hopefully the next generation of kids can ride it soon.

In the video I state that I clocked it with my Rhino at 30 MPH.