A couple of things that led to my buying the Scag Wildcat was the water cooled Kawasaki engine. I didn't see any other brands with a water cooled engine. It also has an oil cooler, which a few brands also had. I really liked the seat on the Scag. I sat in so many mowers that I don't remember the others seats, but some were also very nice, while others were pretty bad. The Scag has solid front tires. Actually, they are hollow in the middle, but don't hold air and they cannot go flat. The size of the spindles on the Scag, plus the thickness of the steel was more then most other mowers, but I can't say for sure for each brand as my memory isn't positive from one to another. Then the biggest selling point on the Scag over the others, except Kubota, was the dealer. The Scag dealer is there doing this full time. The Exmark dealer is also the Ace Hardware store. I never got a clear answer who does their warrantee work, or what happens if it breaks down on me. For me, it came down to Scag or Kubota. By comparing components and engines, I went for the Scag. Kubota had some issues with their hydraulics, but the mechanic at Kubota told me that Kubota had fixed that problem, then later on he said there never was a problem and it was always the owners using the mowers for towing stuff. He even showed me a zero turn mower with a 2 inch ball mounted to the back of it that he said was the cause of that mowers problems. I can see where a zero turn shouldn't be hauling a trailer, but don't know the other side of it to know for sure if the owner of that particular mower was pulling a plastic garden trailer like so many people do with their mowers, or a much larger trailer. I guess anything is possible, but think the odds are in favor that it was a small garden trailer and that it shouldn't have caused any problems. Since the mechanic at Kubota gave me two different answers while talking to him, I wasn't sure which version to believe.
Eddie
