Hi,
Well, I had a Scott Bonnar 45 17" that had been totally rebuilt to NEW by MowerPartsOz, I had purchased it fot $3,000 from a guy who won it in a hotel raffle and had never used.
I love the SB45 but I wanted to go to the cylinder reel mower cartridge system for ease of switching between reel cut, de-thatching and scarifying without go through the lengthy process of removing cylinder reel and bedknife, then installing scarifying reel, then switch back to cylinder reel and having to reset.
Anyway, I stumbled across a RoVer Kensington 17L that uses the cartridge system.
The RoVer Kensington 17L is actually a rebadged Allett Kensington 17, I rang Allett in Victoria and Jack confirmed this and buying in Australia just with the standard 6 blade cutting reel will set you back $4900 with Honda motor.
RoVer came with standard 6 blade reel but the real clincher were:
1. Exceptional condition for it's 7 years old
2. 10 Blade cartridge (new are $1068)
3. De-thatching cartridge (new are $618)
so it had $1700 worth of an additional 2 cartridges.
I paid $1100 for everything but the catch was the mower was in Mildura, 800Km round trip from Adelaide, SA.
I decided to go Saturday week ago when it was upto 43c near Mildura and was pleasantly surprised about it's condition, VERY GOOD but just needing a cleanup, few adjustments and tweaking.
Anyway, I used the RoVer the other day and found it performed as my NEW SB45 17" so bit the bullett and listed on Marketplace for $3750, I had installed brand new Stainless Steel handlebars, beter SB decals and solid brass fittings.
I guy came out this morning, loved my SB45 17" and just handed me a $1000 cash deposit, I said I'm not sure if I REALLY WANT to sell it. Anyway we shook on $3750 without him haggling.
I'm going to purchase the Allett 17" scarifying cartridge for about $560 shipped.
Anyway, some may think I'M CRAZY, I hope I made the right decision, money wasn't a factor, getting a cartridge system was.
Cheerz
