I mow a few yards with similar grade hills with an old Ferris IS 500z. It’s sketchy as hell if it’s wet, I would never chance it with a pond at the bottom. I will say that brand new Carlisle tires make a huge difference in what I can do with that mower. With that said, I just bought a 52” Wright ZK the other day to feel safer and have the ability to bailout if I need to. Keep the review videos coming. It’s nice to see what these machines can do in real world scenarios.

I've put thousands of hours on ztr mowers over the past 10 years and this video had me nervous with sweaty palms the whole time...very impressed!

First riding lawnmower, never have driven a zero turn until this one It was easy to drive out of the chute with some practice. Taught my 12 year old nephew to drive it. Love the smooth response of the turns, very comfortable ride and great control. Love this mower, wish I had more yard to mow just to give me more time on it! Great mower, you'll be happy with this one!

Great video Stanley I sold my lawn business 20 years ago....your videos make me want to start up another one !!!!

Stanley I run a smaller version of the cub cadet you're testing and believe me, there is nothing that can outperform the pro z line up on hills. I mow the most aggressive hills in my market because no one else can and I get paid damn good money to do it. I've been preaching these machines to everyone for 2 years and now they are starting to show up on everyone's you tube channel. Glad to see cub cadet making its mark

Stan, a big thanks to you and your crew......great, great video. Three wonderful mowers!!! My employee's love the security and maneuverability of the CUB CADET Pro Z's......instead of the land dictating how you will mow, you now can decide how YOU want to mow. The increased productivity is staggering. Our records show about a 30% increase on sloped land. I will never pay 12k, -15k for a mower unless it can mow a steep hill. Best of all.....I can mow those steep hills on a damp day and do it with one hand (that's just me showing off) KUDOS to Team CUB. God Bless

Excellent footage of real life steep hills. Sometimes the steepness isn't conveyed well thru pics or video but you nailed it. Great job

I boughr a Cub Cadet Z force sx 54. It is rated for 20 degree slope. I have taken it over that with No Fear. A great Tool.

I love the steering wheel mount for the Cub.

I was mowing the other day in an area that wasn't mowed for 5 weeks and thought of one of your videos where these TOYS that you get can't handle tall grass. Now this one and they can't be controlled well on hills. Go try a Kubota BX2380 with a 60" mower deck and has 23 hp diesel. The 4 wheel drive can hold on the hills, and the mower with few exceptions is once and done. Enjoy the videos!

Just bought a Cub Cadet Pro Z 960S Love it!!!

That’s why I like lawn and garden tractors for mowing. I had commercial contracts and 3 LG tractors . They did some really steep stuff.

I have the Pro Z 500, its an awesome machine. It could do the same as the dual wheel in this video. They did a good job, solid job and I love how the steering controls the tires as well so no grass gets torn up.

i actually cut on a 50 degree slope on a ole 72" Kubota ZD28. i love it and have mastered it pretty well

Yay a vid with the lawn Crew haven’t seen them up in a while!

Demoing 2 cub cadet right now.. the Pro 700... have been very impressed... I currently have 16 Exmark’s n 3 Wright’s ... May be adding Cub to the fleet... good mowers!

The exmark turf tracers are the best mowers for slopes period for me. We run one turf tracer and one layer Z in the spring and fall, and during the late spring and summer months we run only turf tracers. I could cut that hill up and down stripes the whole way without slipping. The only time it’s ever slipped on me is if it was in the middle of raining and even then was only slightly for a foot or so, and when the tire tread was worn out. Other than that with a velkie it’s amazing on pretty much any single slope you can think of and when it gets too steep you have an easier time just stepping off the machine and keeping grip than any stand on I’ve used. I had a slope that was almost an 75° pitch going up toward the house and was able to mow it diagonally and straight up and down no problems with the turf tracers, where as before I had cut the same exact property with a wright stander and it couldn’t do up downs unless you went up the hill and back down the hill backwards.

I have a lot of Hill properties and I use a Dixie chopper with the extra wide frame works perfect on hills

Thank you for filming this video. You showed what lawn care guy's have to deal with in real life. I hope that Wright, cub cadet and exmark watch this and make mowers that can handle what we do

Love to see the Ferris Z3 in this test.

thanks for always making awesome epic test vids

I work maintenance and we have a 2016 version of the cub cadet and I love that mower

I love your spirit, great job as always!!!!

I put tweels on my Hustler, they made a huge difference on hills, a lot more grip to keep it from sliding.

I would vote the Cub Cadet for its ability to mow on hill

I can say the I saw the cub cadet has impressed me like the excell Hustler 2500 wide wheel base did in 1997. Cub has opened my eyes, they are really after the commercial market.

That Wright Mower looks similar to The Ninja Mower that Nick at Saving Green Lawn care got! Yours and his mower looks good!!

I own the little version of the cub cadet and it's the only way to go here in the mountains where I live

Well I guess that's one way of making sure nobody steal your mower!

When I can afford to get a Cub Cadet I will get one for those! I Love what I see and got some location that I can't wait to see how it cuts and handles the terrain!

Easiest way to tackle steep hills for me is to start from the bottom and work your way to the top. More grip when you turn up hill because you have more weight on the back.

Despite the risk of tumbling down the hill on the mower,,, beautiful property

Yo I f love watching you as well as a handful of other guys and I just thought I would be awesome to show a quick 1/2 second test of the safety switch before mowing, it would go a long way to promote a more safe attitude for people. Still watching the video. Lol

Great video Stan thanks for the info.

Wow that cub is awesome. Wright did great but put duel wheels on any mower and it improves performance. I just bought the ferris z3x 61" deck and it does great on very steep hills as well. Great video thanks for the post. Again wow on the cub.

That Wright mower looks like the same one that Ed Wright gave to Nick of Saving Green Lawn Care. They just made yours themed for you & made Saving Green's mower themed for them.

Nice review 👍

I like the cub, but it's too big so I'll stay with the WRIGHTS. Now I'd love to have duel wheels but with the yards I do it wouldn't make sense. I've got to get close with the deck and the wheels stick out to much. I also hope so much that WRIGHTS does the Vangard with the 500 hr oil change engine. I've even thought about buying a 52" and changing the engine out myself. But you got them to go above what I was thinking about. I do believe in the Dallas area I would need an oil cooler tho, with a oil change interval of 500 hrs. Or maybe put the love jugs on it like I have on my Harley. THAT! was a great and very informative video, thanks for that!

Stan... test drive a John Deere X739 4 wheel drive, and all wheel steer with a 60 inch deck on that same slope. It will walk around that steep slope any direction, wet or dry, all day long. Plus next winter you can blow snow with it, with no chains required. It's about 12k new. They retain their value, and are a lot lower priced than the Cub, or that dual wheeled Wright. A number of commercial guys use them as a main mower here in the Hutchinson, MN area, hills lakes, and all. Blessings

I want a club cadet , bloody awesome.

We mow some slopes worse than those with the same pond sliding results. Just like you guys we are here in the real world looking for solutions...thanks for the vid

if you come to Mansfield Ohio i will let you run mine i have a few complaints but mine is not as heavy duty as that one but i love it

I believe that the ventrac would do good..!!

My opinion even though we don't use these type of machines in Greece because we do not have lawns to mow, is that the Wright tyres should be more comfortable of a ride overall due to the absorption capability over bumps, the tyres offer for the person that uses it all day long.

I only ran Stand on’s, you have to back down any slope and always turn keeping the caster wheels to the upside of the slope.

what brand stand on is the 2nd one showed in the montage opening after the cub cadet str with the steering wheel?

I appreciate the dragon ball z poster and figures in the office. Keep it up!

Exmark Staris vs Toro Grandstand!!!! Please make a video Stan! Thx

In the Pittsburgh area I've often stated we're billy goats as we don't knock down the hills, we often build them on the terrain. Although it's not San Francisco, other parts of CA, Colorado or other know mountainous areas, they don't have the steepest streets. Pittsburgh's Canton Street out of North/South Americas, Europe & Africa is the steepest. It's 630 ft (190 m) long (the hill is about 65 meters long) and is claimed to include a 37 percent grade 21 ft (6.4 m) feet long. I'm not debating over whose residence land is the steepest. It varies throughout the entire country. It's knowing what's steep & steeper. I live in southwest Pa. I just started looking into Billygoat & Cub Cadet. Pa is full of varying hills. When was 12 I took on the responsibility of moving our lawn. When first moved in, the back bordered onto corn fields & the previous owners failed to keep it up. I originally had a non-motor push mower. I spent an entire summer cutting down the backyard, using both a hand sickle & that mower. Finally I got a 'regular' mower & cleared the back. The house was built horizontal on a hill. There is almost flat, kinda steep, sharp drops had to use a rope tied around my waist tied to a deck post & the edge was so sharp, had to go into the neighbor's side to push up, because ground from rain break off. One area of the back was deceptively slippery can fall quickly & the mower would tumble over. I counted 10 degrees around the lawn. Years later have to return, I'm taking care of a relative in the house. I've been out-of-state to monitor any condition of the house & lawn. The backyard went right back to the condition is was when we moved in. The grass is around 6ft high. The sharp drop between the neighbors can't even see the drop only the thick bushes that have grown. The one used a rope for, can't even see it! Can't even walk towards it, the grass is so high looks as if in a jungle. I'm looking at these mowers to cut down the forest/jungle/steep grade lawn. I slipped trying to use the sickle & think this will be better surefooted & safer. No offense those are hard when wet, at the bottom there are rocks & a pond. At the bottom of mine could be a sharp drop off reminds me of a speed jump. Through the years only a few landscaping services would do. They'd never think to try a riding lawnmower on any section. I'm trying to find out what is the best for very extreme elevations & terrain (back is always deceptively wet).

Stanley, thank you so much. I actually own a Wright ZK and I was a non believer about the Cub Cadet until now.

I rocked the 32" Staris for a week. Love it for the small city backyards. I like your Wright color scheme better than any of the other schemes I've seen. They going to be offering those as well as the SG one? Thanks for this bad a$$ video.

Tony Award worthy video. I'm am thoroughly convinced on the Staris for my needs. What engine would you recommend?

Love to have one of those Wright's with single "twheels".

Back down drive up on nearly any steep hill wet or dry = never have an issue!

You sir are the man love the content

id be concerned about how the muffler on the exmark sits right above the hydraulics. wonder how much it increases the running temperatures of the hydraulic system.

Excellent video, a lot of good footage. Most of us out here can't afford to buy one of those big machines. How about putting a video together using average machines, zero turns and stand ons, 48"-54" using different tires and treads to test traction on hills. I have an account that I push mow the hill and below, my zero turn just skis down the hill.

So can tweels or dual wheels be put on any ztr for added traction?

I really like this scary video. I'm just curious about the cost vs ROI of a dedicated slope mower. Do you seek out slope jobs once you own it or do you buy it based on need? At what point do you decide you need a slope mower. I've actually passed up slope jobs out of fear of losing equipment.

I need something that can do a hill a little more steep than the hill your about to do . I’m curious to see which mower does it best

@15:00 the way the rear tires flex on the wright actually make it more stable.

I use a Grasshopper with ags on steeper hills than that with no problems. We can even drive it down almost into our pond and back it right out, very stable mower.

I have a couple properties that have sprinklers going when we cut. We almost lost a mower..... we asked them if we could turn the sprinklers off while we cut and then back on when we finish or if they would cut the sprinklers an hour before we got there. They agreed to cut it when we called giving them an hours notice each time and then me and my guys turn the sprinklers back on before we leave. That lasted about 3-4 weeks then they decided they didn’t want to keep having to turn the sprinklers off. So I suggested “WE” turn them off an before and turn them off as we already have access to the app that runs the sprinklers since we installed the pumps/sprinklers and set up the app. So now we pull up (the sprinklers are always going) and we spend10-12 minutes (on and off time) on each mower putting these special chains on the rear wheels and use them only while mowing around the pond. We charge them extra now for doing the pond. We itemize the time for the chains and a bit extra for all four mower operators. Each mower operator got a minor pay jump for hazard pay. The company didn’t balk at all on the price increase. Come to find out they had 3-4 other mower companies quit them because of how dangerous the pond area was. Maybe I will take a look at the Wright and the Cub Cadet to see how they work for us. Maybe we can ditch chains

I’m a diehard Exmark guy but I really like that cub cadet, anyone know if they offer a ultra vac style bagging system for it?

You need to do a video on a Spartan SRT XD model that is the best lawn mower I have ever used on a steep hill compare that with the other mowers that you are using

Does the Vanguard have the Oil Guard system? If not it Depends on Horsepower could be every 50 hrs or every 100 hrs

Dirt monkey, I love your videos would welcome a little advice currently just buy a used Toro 4220 and I’m debating whether to do side discharge for my residential lawn which I will cut weekly or buy the mulching kit the mower? It came with the bag attachment as well. It is .35 acres in size...I may end up bagging it if the grass isn’t to long between cuts.

id like to see how the kubotas and ventracs compare, i know the ventrac is more expensive but it would still be nice to see if the extra money equates to better performance

Good review.

That was Awesome. Thank you so much !!! Craig. Pa. Guy

Great video

U should see about getting a demo tracked model from central boiler here in Minnesota.

Interesting comparison,. Very informative video!

That exmark was impressive in that its a 48 inch. I never had good luck with a 48 on any slope

Awesome!!!

Love the cadet.. wonder if it can take twheels as well... do you see less tearing with the twheels or same?

Why not just use a walk behind? It would do just fine on the hills/slopes?

What do you think of the old school bobcat 48 belt drive mower.this mower now has a Briggs Stratton 18 go key start engine. The old engine was a Kawasaki engine. My mechanic say the Briggs Stratton engine needs 500 amp battery. do you think it needs that many amps??????

I like that Dragonball Z poster in the background.

Is it possible to remove one set of tyres from the Wright mower?

Should try out kubota ones I live in east TX and thinking about upgrading next year I have their z421 54in cut now and wondering which one to get next their 726 or 781i or their zg series

I'd love to see this with a Ferris 3200 with midnight edition tires vs the Altoz with tank treads!!

I’ve got a retention hill pond about double that angle.. can barely even walk it . I use a 52 turf tracer , no velke , mid afternoon in dry conditions, and still can barely mow it ... still slides some. Scary as anything .. I walk it super slow . End up weedeating the bottom half of the hill usually.

When are you going to do a review on the altoz trx with tracks and the different decks

That cub is nice

Try a ferris dual drive and a sulky one of the best hill mowers

Love how he puts the song name

Here a video that I'd like to see the same mowers with 300hrs on them and do the same test to see who's will do it then with in that 300hrs use different operators because different people working different ways thanks again I've seen a lot of your videos like them all

The people saying your not a real operator probably don't even know how to start our machines lol. The famous keyboard warriors always attacking everyone until it's in person. I been operating everything, dozers, excavators, skid steers, and graders, and most all of the attachments you can think of, and im even certified to run cranes and have been operating all that equipment for over 25 years and I've learned a long time ago from an old timer that there's a big difference between running a machine and operating a machine. Before I started my own business 2 years ago, I worked for a company that has the largest fleet of Doosan equipment on the east coast we are actually in Doosan's equipment videos

You guys should go around with the hedge trimmer and/or loppers and get rid of those low branches.

Came for the Wright mower, but didn't see it while skipping around in the video... did I miss it??

I have some antique John Deere mowers I would be willing to bet they could take the one curb where only the cub and the wright mower could do but the Xmark couldnt.

Ah my 52” turf tracer walk behind can do any of those hills.

Cubs pro z sw! The Billy Goat!

Stan just curious you may have answered this somewhere else. Is it better to quite your full time job and go straight in to mowing and landscape or work a part time job and run the business full time until your making enough money to quit the part time job?

Test a Ventrac those things are beast on a steep incline or slope........

Nice!

Haven't seen you guys do anything with the 4520 Ventrac they got new attachments and new hydros

Are we going to see you try this with the new stand on cub?

i hope to see scag trying this in the future