Ventrac 4500 VS. John Deere 2038R Mowing Side by Side
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- Christy mows with the Ventrac 4500Y while Tractor Time with Tim mows using the John Deere 2038R. Which one will give a better cut? The Ventrac has a finish mower deck that has a full-width rear roller so it floats over the uneven yard! The John Deere 2038R mows faster so it gets the job done quicker. Which cut do you prefer?
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1:20 "doesnt want to throw grass in driveway so makes sure the side discharge is away from driveway" 36 seconds later aims and ultimately throws grass on the driveway. As John Steinbeck penned- "the best laid plans of mice and men often go astray." lol
FINALLY!!! A Ventrac mowing video!! You did a good job striping for your first time. After some practice your lawn will look like a ball field. Keep it up!!
Enjoyed your vid. Appreciate your honest comments. I've used a Ventrac (but with a heavy duty deck) for 5 years and still love it, especially since I specialize in slope mowing. Plus like its versatility, since we use it in winter for snowplowing & salting walkways.
I've been looking at the ventrac for well over a year now and I have to say that you two are the first to say anything about it bogging down. That really worries me because my current mowers cannot get through my grass.
There are two 32hp engines available. We have the 24jp diesel. I’m certain that you would have no issue with the 32 hp versions.
@@TractorTimewithTim Oh I'd be a very proud owner of any ventrac, it's just they're too expensive for my rather shallow wallet 😣
I’ve always loved that Ventrac.
For my personal needs it doesn’t compare to a tractor, but I manage a baseball field and I think it would be the perfect machine for that application
Lookin good. Love the ventrac machine. Go different directions each time you mow if you want to stripe the yard. If you go the same direction every time your training the grass to grow that one way. Its better for the yard to change directions each mowing session. Of course if you want it to look like a golf course you'll have to buy a reel mower set-up. They cut the grass instead of ripping the grass. Just some ideas for yall. Have a good one and be safe
I like the gang mow operation! Reminds me of watching combines knock down a field of wheat or corn in no time. I maintain about 1.5 acres of lawn. I couldn't imagine the expense of maintaining as much as you have. Maybe designate some of it to natural grassland habitat?
Noticed the mower deck adjustment handle is up. It should be stowed in the down position when mowing.
Keeps it from getting snagged when you get under pine trees and such.
Great video!!
I used to drive a 12 foot mower with flail mowers on it. One on the 3 point hitch and one hydraulically mounted on the side. Then I also drove a 15 foot cut mower. One in front and two on either side. That machine was all hydraulically driven. Of course, I also drove them on the roads to get to different places. Oh, to tie up traffic in the morning. 😎😎😎 I don't know, but I like to cut in unusual patterns. Going round and round creating circles is nice. Another great video guys. 😎😎😎😊😊😊
Amen ! Love the Scripture Christy !! Also really enjoyed your narration of the video !!! But don't tell Tim ! Wife and Husband working together is great fellowship with one another !! I don't know how you feel Christy , but my wife would rather work outside than in the house ! Due to health issues she can't do like she would like ! Thank you all for sharing so much of your life with us !! Please be safe and God bless you all !!!!!! From the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia ,. EDDY
Thanks for your always encouraging words, Eddy!
There's a place and time for everything, that beautiful lawn will be beautiful for years using that ventract! Johnny 2 way to heavy! Thanks U-2 for sharing
I love these videos, they are so well made
Thanks!
Good job mowing together, making work look like fun! Yard looks good.
Tim , I saw your clip about a hover mower. Hover mowers came out 45 years ago. FLYMO bought a hover mower out . A neighbor of my parents bought one to try & it lasted about 4 hours . It was a complete failure on FLYMO'S part. It was underpowered & once it clogged with wet grass it would not work at all. I hope this enlightens you on the hovermowers. I enjoyed the video on the Ventrac. I have 5 acres to cut & am very interested in a Ventrac with a 72" mower, a 42 " inch snowblower attachment & a airblower attachment! Thanks for the info!
You know what they say? A family that mows together stays together! I recently bought replacement JD parts from AHWLLC Green Parts Store. I loved their online parts manuals and great service.
Thanks. Hope you got the free shipping with code TTWT!
Hi Tim this is Kenny from rush county Indiana I think it is cool we learned in church today that 2 is better than one we just finished the book of axe and I was excited to see your verse today and how it coincided with our sermon today. May God bless you and your family and keep you all safe happy and healthy
Hi Tim and Christy..... I totally agree Christy. I love running my tractor but my least favorite thing is mowing. I’m glad to see in the last video that you have the planter set up and ready to go can’t wait to see it in action. Always enjoy your videos have a great day. Thanks.
Great video. This shows how having the attachment in the front has some advantages. Easier to manever for some job's
I really like yalls new house, yard, and shop. It’s awesome to see people grow and do well. Blessings to y’all
Thanks!
You might look into a Swisher pull behind finish mower. They have their own gas engine for cutting and can be set offset to left or right. That could double your cutting width.
Ventrac seems pretty awesome. Don't think it's as a tractor. Front loader and all!! Good video👍
That's a good idea have both of you mow that way it doesn't take as long and you don't feel alone doing it. The old place we had it was almost 4 acres to mow with a JD 23 hp with 42" deck took most of the day mowing, wish I had a tractor with 72" deck.
I recomend a zero turn it is very easy to manover around trees and flower beds. It is very Good at striping. I mow around 15 acres usually takes 3 hours
Yes, but a ztr is a uni-tasker
Good job the both of you. Never seen a floating push mower thanks Tim and Christy
love you guys!! you guys work so hard everyday i'm impressed of how much work you guys do everyday!
Love the Ventrac! Today at St. Andrews high school in Middletown DE where Dead Poets Society was shot the school maintenance guys were cutting grass with a brand new Ventrac. Very hilly and only the Ventrac could cut that grass. My company is remodeling a 60 year building there, very historic site. Was thinking of your channel after seeing the Ventrac.
I could get used to the Ventrac too. Thank you both for letting me operate it, and the rest of them! :-)
Loved having you here!
I just love with y'all doing I love your house I love everything y'all got I love it y'all gets doing so much good work out there with new equipment and new tractors y'all got y'all is doing a lot of good work and everything from John Deere.
OMG It's a FlyMo (did I just show my age lol) !!! I agree the Ventrac needs a mulch kit... Same for the 2038R...
Patrick Tingley haha should have read the comments further, yep wasn’t the originals by Toro? Can’t remember
@@powderriver2424 I just looked it up, FlyMo was their own company, started 50 years ago and is still in business... I had no idea. I thought they were a novelty thing, you know like something sold by RonCo... 50 years that's pretty dang legit imho.
At 42 years old I'll I'm still puzzled why dandelions are bad. I think they are beautiful and the honeybees love it
Tim Christi fine job we a Toro 450 commerical zerro turn can cut lawn in 40 minutes with tractor about 2 hours and the Z looks better your tractor does a nice job
God Bless
PaK
JD now makes a zero turn mower with the yanmar 25 hp diesel motor up to a 72 inch. I think for mowing only on flat surface like you have there that would be the way to go. Notice I said for mowing only.
Looks like a nice mower. You done a nice job Christie
I think I would try to demo a 12 foot batwing finish mower if the chance would arise .... Great job guys!
Hi Tim and Christy they both do a good job hard to judge which one gives the better cut and the little hand one we call that a flymo again it has its use nice video
Great video Tim I think your vintrac done a fantastic job mowing christy looked like she was having a lot of fun I like her commentary you have a beautiful property God bless you and your family hope to see katrill back soon thank you for sharing
Thanks for the kind words!
Keep on doing a lot of videos and a lot of new technology I want to see it everything y'all got.
It is nice you guys working together. Thoroughly enjoyed the commentary.
I need to get out in the garden but I think I’ll sit right here and watch this first
Nice Ventrac. My dream lawn and garden machine. Saving up to get one in the future.
Practice is the road to perfection. God bless
I think you'd find a steering ball on the steering wheel makes mowing a lot easier on the Ventrac. With your right hand setting throttle you can steer much easier. I've got a 32hp gas Ventrac and have no trouble at all with the heaviest wet grass.
Yep. The 32 hp would have no issue ( as we mentioned)
I think the Ventrac cool but I like the looks of the John Deere better.
the ventrac with the factory heated /ac cab with mower,snowblower,blade,sweeper and salt spreader here in canada sells for $25,100.00
I have 2 3/4 acres to mow with a 60" mower deck, I finally decided to buy a 60" pull behind mower which it make's it really nice for mowing around the edge of my pond. Now each swipe i mow is 120" a 10' foot swipe. Thank's Tim & Christi for all the good video's.
Could get a LOT done that way!
I watched this video before the other one when you mowed the ditch in the mud. Here's a video of the benefits of a pull behind mower. czcams.com/video/Q8IIW_0ni2o/video.html
I watched this video before the one when you mowed the ditch in the mud. Here's a video of the benefit's of a pull behind mower. czcams.com/video/Q8IIW_0ni2o/video.html
Christy the yard looks very nice,and you did a great job with Vinny,Tims little blue lawn mower is very interesting,Thanks for the video. P.S. the hover mower is quite spendy, not something that would be a must in the garage,but a neat toy.
Hmmm this is starting to look like tractor time with mrs Tim aka Christy. LOL. She does look good on vinny and operates it very well. You have a great family and work well together. God bless.
Glad to see ya speed up after the first pass!!! Everybody does that, plus ya need some run time to get use to it!!
You should run you dual wheels on the Ventrac on those wet conditions! Makes a huge difference!
I like your flying mower! Those are cool! The Ventrac make nice stripes! I have a Simplicity Broadmoor and it makes the stripes like Vinney! Nice job Tim and Christy!
You make a good team
Wonderful videos, keep up the hard work making videos. Love you all
I love front mount mowers the best thing and versitile
Michael Mac Tavish Yes sir, it’s awesome
@@SGT.William1John18 i see towns and cities uses them for sidewalks,and street and property maintance wich there alot cheaper then spending $140,000 on a holder c992 wich rediculas over price sidewalk machine wich the ven tracs are less
OH!! That bluebird mower looks like just what I need! I have a drainage ditch and a few hard areas to mow such as around trees that this would be perfect for! After I put my Hustler Raptor SD tire into our septic cover, I won't mow around that with it anymore and this looks like it would be a great alternative to the weed eater for larger areas like that. Their website doesn't seem to have any pricing info on it.
Oohhfff my local dealer looks like $900 bucks.
Continue the berm too your accesses road and plant it with some threes and you will get some privacy, and (I think) it would look fantastic.
My dad went from a John Deere to a Scag zero turn commercial mower and cut his mowing time in half. With a yard your size it would be a good investment and they last forever
The Ventrac looks to have more blowing power? Critsy, with the Ventrac you can mow 2 stripes to the inside and than go the other way 2 times and so on.. so the clips don't go in the flower beds.
It's funny to see that the dandelion shrinks any time you mow it... My favorite hobby mowing.. Thanks and be safe
Well I have done I completed all of your videos wow how far you have come awesome cant wait see what is next
You'll have to start over now, and watch em again! :-)
@@TractorTimewithTim Yeah maybe with the long weekend I can binge
So, what is your favorite episode?
Hi guys, that stump is a good job for casey!!! Havent seen him in a while.
That's God's Marriage - right there.... man and wife... Mowing together, side by side. hahahah - y'all are awesome. Thanks for the videos.
Nice video tim and kristie and what a lot off gras ! But with Jonny 2 and the ventrac it goes really fast,good job kristie 👍
Going to have to put some acres of that lawn in 🌽
For striping, pick a distant object and aim the mower for it instead of just watching the edge of your deck, you'll get a straighter line.
looking good and that tractor is not rare but i very seldom see lawn companies use them but its great to see older tractors still in use..
This is a 2018 model.
@@TractorTimewithTim Ahh ok didnt know just looks old .
Love this video , I would like to add to your viewers , that if they mow to please not throw clippings out on the road , they make it very hazardous for motorcycles ..
The grass was tall and now it's short, job done. All that other stuff people worry about is beyond me.
I mow 10 acres with my 2018 2025R with the 60" deck and an offset Swisher 60" pull behind finish mower. On a good day I can do it in 2.5 hours.
Yeah I love the ventrac and yeah it’s a bit under powered for a 72inch deck but they probably chose that diesel hp to keep it under the 26 hp so it’s under all the extra emissions that would be added above 26hp. Thanks nice video
Yes, correct. We had the 31hp Kawasaki for awhile. Quite a machine!
Hopefully the Finance Committee will love them all and you will end up with all of those awesome machines
I love your home, it really looks beautiful
Tim I'm curious why you haven't tried to demo a diesel zero turn moves yet. I think time savings alone would be helpful for your property
Same I think the next thing they should rent is a big Zero Turn, That'd be cool!
No opportunity as of yet.
I personally own a Kubota Diesel zero turn. It saves a lot of time.
The only issue is they can go out and make money with these two machines and they are much more versatile. A zero turn can only mow. I do think they would like mowing a whole lot more with a big zero turn, but why not put that money towards something with a larger return on investment.
If you do try a zero turn, stay away from the pond. They like to go swimming.
In the long run that ventrac will be the best for mow. I have a John Deere 750 and a ventrac 3200. I mow around 4.5 acres. Takes half the time with the ventrac
have you ever considered a fence and some sheep?
I feel the same way about mowing. I just want to get it done.
I would love someday to bring my x739 to mow all of this. I just hope this will be possible, since I love mowing.
nice to have two mower vener duals make defice good video godbless you
Great video as usual love the side by side mowing looked cool 😎
It is fine tractor time with Tim y'all doing that video is fun I love with y'all doing with those tractors yeah that's a little John Deere shirts and everything in it.
I use to spend 7 ours mowing my 5 acres. I bought a Gravely 60 inch zero turn. Takes me a hour and a half to mow. But in my swampy area it sucks. When one wheel slips your stuck.
Dualling mowers should come accompanied with banjo music. When it gets good and sunny & HOT I hope you do a video on canopies with sound track it’s gonna be a hot time in the old town tonite! 🤪
Yep. We’ll get to the canopies. Promise.
Great video!
Hey Tim, do you think you sometime in the future just do an Update video about all your new equipment! I've seen a few things in the background but I would like it if you showed us each of your machines! Thx!
I have a feeling the reason they don’t have a bigger diesel version of the Ventrac is because of emissions. I think 27hp is the cutoff point. Anything below that is fine but if you go above you have to have a diesel particulate filter.
We are using the diesel version of the Ventrac. 25hp is the cutoff.
Regarding the blue hover mower, there was a HOVER type mover in the US about 50-60 years ago. For some reason, I think it was made by TORO.
Great video and the perfect bible verse at the end good job👍
I like how that Ventrac cuts. A good video would be comparing that to a zero turn.
I think you should try the 32HP Kubota gas or 25HO Kubota diesel Ventrac. I demoed a 4500 diesel last year. I cut 6 acres of grass in under 2 hrs. I was always impressed with my Steiner 430 with a 27 HP Kohler. After running a Steiner 440 And then the Ventrac 4500 it was Ventrac hands down. I am willing to bet there is no way that John Deere would ever out cut the Ventrac. I have been cutting with a 72 inch deck for years. That Ventrac will outlast, And out cut the Deere any day.
We have the 24hp diesel at present.
TTWT... you may need to field tile the yard into a crock, and pump it somewhere. Nice video thanks.
You all could install a Husqvarna Automower in the front yard and not have to worry about the mowing time. And since its flatter the wet spots wont factor in with a small robotic mower taking care of it. I would recommend a 450 high cut model. It can handle 1.25 acres and more if the terrain is flat
Not sure if I have seen one around your place, but since you toured Superior Tech you might have something in the works. I have a 60 gallon Deere sprayer I use and one of the videos I have seen requested on my channel is using a sprayer. When you get after your dandelions, your bigger audience I am sure would love a sprayer video. I've just never had the time to make one when the weather has been appropriate to spray. (I do really like my Deere sprayer)
Stay tuned. Getting it setup now!
Try a toro sidewinder , I'm running a ventrac 4500z 52 hp. But I still love a sidewinder because of the shifting deck.
nice vid Christie! great TTWT vid as always, not to be a grandpa but please all of you wear glasses when mowing. Eye's Live's Matter:) i'd like to see if the 3E has a mower for it....i hear they go to like 100"
THAT’S A BEAUTIFUL FORD F250 or F350
Kameron Skelton it’s a beautiful truck
Kameron Skelton hell yeah
Have you considered turning the front part of the field to wildflowers or similar? You could provide habitat for a ton of beneficial critters with that much extra space. We live in a community with 2.5 to 10 acre properties and some people mow everything and some of us just keep a zone around the house mowed and leave other big open areas as habitat for butterflies and such.
As always thanks for sharing. I got my mower deck installed on my Kubota BX23S this weekend and mowed our yard as well.
Great video guys just wondering if the Kavli blades fit on the ventra that would be something to see!
Hover mowers have been out since the 60’s under the flymo brand. They look interesting, but I really like the height control of wheels.
You can control the ht of a hover mower
The Ventrac is a Lot better on slopes of course you might need to add dual tires. I know mowing is just a job but mowing horizontally, vaertically, and diagonally altering will make you yard look better. Like the previous person said mowing one direction trains your grass to lay one direction also the tread marks from your tires will become really visible. Stripping doesn't have to be perfect. The straighter the better but crawl before you walk and give your yard a chance to be more appealing.
I work for a golf course we have two of the Hover mowers for getting around some hill and the bunkers
For that large area, I'd use an offset tow behind mower with either unit.
I pull a swisher with a four wheeler and am looking to buy one more and run them offset, I can run my swisher about twice as fast as a zero turn, works well if you have a big flat open yard 1+ acres
Tim there’s a piece of property that the parish owns next to the apartments where my son lives. It was filled and graded by them and now it’s getting close to 5’ tall with some wild saplings and weeds. I want to get in there so bad and cut it; with a brush mower or a flail mower. Just irks me that it’s not kept up.
Just to give you a comparison as far as time. I have a 1025r with the 60 inch mower deck and it takes me about 2hrs and 20 minutes to mow 4 acres
Team work a winning combination