We moved to Mi. in 94 bought a 5 acres and a house. The house we restored added to and actualy rebuilt the hole thing. Anyway we started out cutting the yard (5 acres) with a push mower. That did mot last to long. Then we just used the push mower out by the road in the ditch bank. We bought an MTD 42" the boys at that time thought it was punishment to cut the grass. they managed to run into trees and the fence several times. I just kept putting it back together. Long story short the boys are grown gone away and now have kids of there own but are to young to cut grass. Until last fall we were still using our 3rd (in 25 years) MTD. My fatherinlaw had a farm in WI. and moved to the city. He had a Scag zero turn mower he had no use for it in his appartment so we got it. I have found there are a few places it won't go. BUT I went from spending 3 to 4 hours cutting grass to about 1 hr. The Scag is no comparison to the MTD which is now retired for the most part. But we had good luck with the MTDs for many years.