Done.....who do I call to do it for 35 bucks.

Hire it mowed. @ $35 it would take 142 weeks of mowing to pay $5000.

OK, I have a few minutes so here is what I will tell you about buying a mower, and so you know, I have almost 19 years in the landscape industry (not chuck in a truck "company", like real, legit, biggest landscape company in America)

-ANY zero turn mower that you see at the big box stores are made of the same components, most from the same factory, with different colors and badging. If you're going to spend $2-3k there on one of those POS mowers, just give the money to me and go buy another actually decent mower.

-Look for a deck that is welded, NOT stamped. Easy to tell the difference. You can see the beads of the welds. On Deere, it is really easy to tell. yellow decks are stamped, green are welded. Go look at Home Depot and tell me how many green decks you see on Deeres there.

- Bad Boy mowers are the biggest rip offs out there. Look at where they are sold; Tractor Supply company. Ever seen a service department at TSC? Me either. Plastic deck pulleys that will hand grenade leaving you unable to mow your yard. And then there is parts availability. My neighbor grenaded one of his pulleys, waited 2 weeks for a shop to get a pulley in, and it was the wrong one (from the factory). I called in a favor to a shop that I've been using for a decade, and got the correct one, although that took another couple of weeks.

- Scag, Deere, Dixie Chopper, (some) Hustler, and Kubota all make a quality product. My personal favorite, and I've ran them all, is Scag. By a LOOOOONG shot. Better made, less plastic [censored] to break off, we ll designed, and will last forever. Scag is also the only manufacturer to use commercial hydraulic motors, pulleys, decks, and engines in their residential line of ZTRs.

- You can get a Scag Freedom Z w/ 48" deck (welded) for $4,950.00

- Scag also has their new Liberty Z w/ 48" deck for $4,200.00. The Liberty is a true residential Zero turn. It has the smaller wheels and tires like the residential models of other brands, but has the guts of a Scag commercial.

- You will pay more money for a Deere (those corporate boys in Moline, Ill. want their money too), or for a Kubota (Kubota is my 2nd favorite of all brands I mentioned, but there is a large corporate overhead that has to be paid with them also)

Bought a 'zero turn' John Deere for the wife. I say that because once she got on and drove it, she made it clear it was HER'S !!
Good and hopefully last mower. Purchased in 2005
If that is any help

God Bless
Lee