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A couple of useful ongoing threads
https://landscapejuicenetwork.com/forum/topics/rear-roller-mower
https://landscapejuicenetwork.com/forum/topics/honest-opinions-plea...
Hi Will, we've used a couple of 56's and a 48 for a couple of seasons. There have been problems with gearboxes and cables. Finish and speed good but not standing the use (abuse!) they get. Toros much more robust in our experience.
For the money they are, the 56 replacements will be a Toro prostripe 560. It's a beefed up Hayter 56 (Toro own Hayter).
Hi Will, I have a Weibang 48 Pro bbc, purchased 18 months ago now.
It's a powerful machine, but heavy. Not so good on long wet grass (but which mower is).
I had real problems with it for the first six months or more. It kept running on, especially going up a slope, sometimes upto SIX foot! It went back to the dealers a couple of time, they couldn't find a fault, so I managed to video it ripping my arms off as it ran on. Eventually it had a new gearbox fitted, which was much better but it still did it occasionally.
It must of been getting on for a full season before I noticed that it must of bedded itself in or something. Not had much use so far this year, as managed to get first cuts done & then Cv19 hit, including me! So no work for 3 wks now.
I don't know if the bigger machine is any different but I won't buy another Weibang myself.
Cheers Neil
Have a look at Weibang reviews on Trustpilot - you may not want to buy one!!
You don't say if your Hayter is the new model - we are commercial and have used the new Hayter 56 Pro's for nearly 12 months, mowing towards 10,000 square metres a week with them, pro's very good wet collection, superb build quality - no breakdowns so far which considering the amount of work I think is outstanding, BBC. 2year commercial warranty.Cons - bit fast on small areas but you can feather the drive.
The new model is designed as a roller mower, most of the other brands are wheeled machines converted to a roller - buy one !
why you keep stressing youre 'commercial' - is that supposed to mean something....? ive got friends who use new 56s ( do all mow and so get v hard use) likely as much or more and who reckon with use the new hayters are less than perfect. just have to accept we all have differing views and experiences of mowers.
In case you don't understand a commercial contractor will give machines a harder life than someone purely doing domestic work
i do understand thanks but still a questionable definition for working out who gives mower a harder life i'd say. each make has its fan-boys ......
Interesting debate, my view from our experience :
A Contractor cutting a large number of Residential sites 5 to 6 days a week will give a pedestrian mower more grief, more wear than a Contractor doing fewer but larger Commercial sites a week.
- For residential sites - the constant loading/unloading, up/over/down paths steps, multiple users, more frequent use of clutch, stretching cables etc will stress & test most mowers.
- For commercial sites - the mowers tend to get run for longer, normally over larger areas, less stop/start, less turning, less use of OPCs so maybe engines hours are longer if you have techo meters fitted to record ( we do - cheap @ £8-10 each ). Large sites typically domain of rideons.
A Domestic user typically will hardly stretch a commercial mower's ability but will be likely subject to more 'abuse'.
(Context: 6+rideons, 25+mowers, collective 100+yrs staff experience, multiple brands used, abused and dropped)
A key point for abuse / hard work will be multi operator use - ie it's not their machine, unlike a single man/van. With just myself, I could happily use high end domestic machines with no problem in terms of robustness. Hand them over to staff and 18months is a best case.
So, I think there are different measures of robustness needed for owner user vs multi operator users.
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