Residential Lawn Tractors in Lumberton, TX

Start with the ground, not the acreage. Walk your yard and note how much is open grass and how much is broken up by trees, beds and sheds. Open ground favors a wider deck, since each pass covers more. Lots of obstacles favor a narrower deck that fits between them. Measure your narrowest gate, too, because the deck has to clear it. A Cub Cadet lawn tractor suits places from a good-sized yard to several acres or more. Bring those notes to our Buna store and compare decks and engines against what you mow.

It depends on how many trees you're working around. A zero-turn pivots in place, so it cuts close around trunks without backing up. A Cub Cadet lawn tractor steers with a wheel, like a car, and swings a wider arc. It's the easier one to learn if you've never run lap bars. Hardin County is mostly pine and hardwood forest, so a yard here can have both open grass and a tree line. If most of your mow is open, a lawn tractor's fine. If you're weaving between trees every pass, look hard at a zero-turn.

You can, with a bagger. Cub Cadet lawn tractors take attachments like a bagger, which helps when pine straw and leaves pile up on the lawn. A bagger adds weight behind you, so take it slower with one on. Empty it before it gets too heavy, and keep the deck high enough that it isn't scraping dirt into the bag. If you'd rather leave clippings on the lawn, you can skip the bagger and let the deck spread them. Ask at our Buna store which bagger fits the lawn tractor you're looking at.

Spring. Mower interest peaks from March to June, and zero-turn demand at our Buna store runs from March through July. That's when the grass turns green. If you can, come look before the first hard cut of the year. You'll have more time to compare decks, sit on a few machines and decide without a lawn getting away from you. The lot changes all year, so what you find in winter may differ from what's there in May. Either way, browse our mowers on j5tractors.com before you come.

Maybe, for the tight spots. A riding mower handles the open lawn, but a push mower gets into corners a deck can't reach. Think about the strip along a fence, the space between beds, or the grass around an air conditioner. Cub Cadet and Bad Boy both make push mowers. Near a ditch or a drop-off, Spartan's advice is a walk-behind or a hand trimmer, and a rider stays well back. If your place is mostly open lawn, you may never miss one. If it's full of corners, a push mower saves a lot of string trimmer work.