Late-Summer Mower Buying: How the Model-Year Cycle Actually Works
Every year around this time, at least a dozen people walk into one of our locations, look at the mower lineup, and ask some version of the same question. When is the best time to buy a mower? The salespeople give an honest answer that is more...
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Getting Your Ventrac Ready for Fall: Tool-Change Planning and Pre-Snow Maintenance
If you own a Ventrac, this is your busiest three-month stretch of the year. Fall cleanup, leaf work, boom-mower work along tree lines, brush cleanup along ditches, and then winter snow work. The machine you probably ran at 60 percent utilization...
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Fall Prep Starts Now: Compact Tractor Attachments to Order Before September
Peak buying season for compact tractors is May and June. Peak buying season for the attachments that make those tractors actually useful is right now. If you bought a 1025R or 2025R or 3025E in the spring and are still running it with just the...
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All-New Ventrac MP270 Post Mower: Mow More, Trim Less
Fence rows can make an otherwise straightforward mowing job take much longer than expected. The open areas may be finished, but grass around posts, under wire, and beside other obstacles still needs attention. That often means another trip around...
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Mowing in a Drought: How to Adjust Blade Height, Deck Speed, and Watering to Save Your Lawn
If you drove around any Ohio or Indiana county this past weekend, you saw the same thing we did on our own lots. Front yards that were still keeping up in early June are visibly checking out now. Brown edges around driveways. Dry patches under...
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The John Deere Operations Center for Small Farms: You've Set It Up, Now What?
There is a moment that every farm we work with hits in their first year with John Deere Operations Center. The setup went fine. The tractor is talking to the office. The mobile app is installed and shows the home fleet on the map. And then the...
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Battery Chainsaws for Storm Season: Choosing Between EGO Power+, Stihl AK, and Stihl AP
Storm season in Ohio and Indiana runs from late June through early September, and it does not politely announce itself. A derecho line moves through southern Indiana in mid-July, or a straight-line wind event drops half the mature oaks on a country...
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Understanding John Deere Financing: A Plain-English Guide to Programs, Rates, and Timing
If you have ever walked out of a dealer conversation wondering whether you should have taken the 0% instead of the cash back, or whether the trade-in you did got the credit it deserved, this is the post we would sit down at a table and go through...
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Compact Track Loaders for Landscape Contractors: What Matters in Real Site Conditions
There are two versions of the compact track loader conversation. The first version happens in a showroom, next to a machine that has never touched dirt, and it is mostly about horsepower and lift capacity numbers. The second version happens at 7 in...
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