Hey, we're going to talk about the Exmark 21 inch Walk Behind today as well as the Exmark 30 inch Walk Behind a
lot of people aren't aware of the Exmark brand maybe, but in the commercial world. They rule, right? They're a well-known
Well respected brand out there from their durability their performance their longevity
quality of cut which is second to none on the Exmark 21
There's a couple things that that they've done that really kind of stand out as unique on the front end
When we look at the height adjusters here, for example, there's no traditional lever style height adjuster. We have a
plate that we pull up and the wheel slides out like so
I choose my height position and I put it back in place. Now. Why the heck would we have that right? I mean
What makes that
something that I want to deal with?
Well, one is durability those little tabs that stick up on a traditional height adjuster. They're something that get
broken when you're going under things mowing or when you're transporting it in your trailer and you've pulled it up underneath your
zero turn rider
They get broken off quite often or they get stiff. This design where you simply pull up the the lever and pull the wheel out
has been out for many years and has proven to be durable and applicable for a commercial application
We also go to a front bumper here to protect the air filter, right?
We've got this air filter that's sitting right out here in the open like this
if this wasn't here
you can only imagine if it's in your trailer and you forgot to strap it down and
It rolled forward you'd bust this sucker off
So the purpose of that is really to protect the front end of the engine speaking of rolling around in the trailer
I know I'm gonna skip around a little bit here guys
But let me tell you one of the things that I see is
Probably the biggest problem on this mower that frustrates a lot of people they break a lot of cables and they complain about hand fatigue
Do you see the throw of this drive lever, which is this bottom lever to the handlebar. It's maybe two inches
and the way you drive this machine is my hand is on the handle bar and
I squeeze this lever and the further I squeeze the faster the mower goes
Well, they've designed it to be comfortable for a lot of operators when I go back and I look at one of the biggest complaints
That that an operator is going to have with an Exmark mower
it relates to this so I
Don't tie this mower in the trailer, I should, but I get done with the lawn I quickly put it up on the trailer
I pop the tailgate up and I take off down the road and this mower comes
Crashing back and slams into the back gate it hits right here, and it bends this lever down so suddenly
My hand is not reaching two inches
It's reaching three or four inches so much harder to squeeze on my hand
It also puts a tremendous amount of stress on this drive cable. So we end up with operator fatigue
And drive cable where I know it's a small thing
But guys if we can put a put a strap on our mowers to keep them from rolling around in the trailer
We're gonna save ourselves some money
Saves ourselves some fatigue and ultimately keep our operators happier with the performance of the machine
Alright back to it. So what makes people like the Exmark mowers? One
just we were talking about, the durability of like the front end height adjusters the back end height adjuster is really slick
I pull one lever and I get
You like that noise? I do too that way you know, it's working
Just a quick up-and-down
When I flip this mower over on its side so we can get a peek underneath
They have a very clean underside of the mower deck. There's a nice dome to it and a great
Venturi draw effect of the air based on how them the mower deck is designed
Compared to any other mower out there on the market currently
This has more vacuum than anything else
so if you're looking to clean up your lawn suck up pine needles or Cedar boughs or
thatch
Dead leaves or even in the spring when it's wet here
And it's a it's a challenge to suck up that grass
The Exmark mower is gonna be the one that cleans that lawn up more so than any other mower out there
That is something that draws people to the Exmark brand of machines the the vacuum the clean cut quality
It's an aluminum deck which is durable
They've also added some steel plates on the side where guards is what they'd call them. So going along curbs
I'm not gonna wear out this aluminum by brushing up against the concrete curbing
I'm going to wear out this steel wear guard and I have two screws that I can replace it with so
Large 9 inch diameter wheels with a rubber tread large fuel tank a 1 gallon fuel tank
Hey if I'm a commercial operator runtimes important
I don't need to be stopping and wasting time filling this this machine up in order to finish a job
so run time is a big thing over here to my right is its Big Brother the Exmark 30 which adds about
50% to the cut with right from a 21 inch to a 30, the benefit of the 30 is speed and
The fact that I can get a lawn done so much quicker and the other side benefit of this 30 is a nice wide
stripe
We've all watched the baseball games watch the Mariners play maybe and seen those nice stripes in the infield and outfield
This gives a beautiful clean stripe. I've had guys switch to this mowers their sole mower. They dumped 21 and gone all 30s
I'm going to tell you guys as tempting as it is. It's not gonna work out for you. You
need to kind of have both of these mowers on your trailers the 21 on a day where it's wet and heavy
Grass, a lot of moisture in the air a lot of moisture on the ground grass that tall
after a week's worth of growth
The 21 is what you need to really clean up that lawn and and and and move on and not have a green arm
After mowing, that lawn the 30 won't handle that day
But the next week when you go out and we've had a little bit less growth and maybe it's a dry day
That 30 is just gonna rock through that long so much quicker and you're gonna say, yeah
I want to run that 30 all the time
You can't. As much as I'd love to just have a 30 on your truck
You kind of got to have both so again advantages the 30, is that nice
wide stripe and the you know
50% wider cut
The disadvantage is there's there's a lot of power draw on a 30-inch wide deck in order to run a bigger engine
We'd add a lot of weight and we don't want to do that. We got to keep this thing lightweight maneuverable
In order to run your property quicker and with less fatigue
Same height adjusters on the front same single point height the gesture on the rear
Same guard to protect your air filter large fuel tank
As you can see the more on the left there that 30-inch
Great for getting through a lawn at a much higher rate of speed based on the width of cut but in a heavy grass
Situation where it's wet, make sure you check out this Exmark 21 has a higher vacuum
ability and cuts the lawn cleaner