Terrible that a Walker Rep doesn't know the proper operation of his product. We run Walker mowers and they don't normally do wheelies backing up a little hill.
I have older versions. Walker makes a weight to put in the back to counter it. The guy running it obviously doesn't run the a super ton. I never get that bounce usually happens to newbies. I won't buy any other mower.
@@Hoefy88 Its similar to a JD F725 I've ran... but it didn't hop like that, I feel like the CG is too high on this machine.... the JD was also a rear steer and longer as well as being a heavy diesel so that probably alleviated it... I am surprised they ship a mower that can be ridden in a manner that would cause this.
They both look like great mowers! Awesome features on them and lifting the deck like that would be really convenient! The back end lifting up like that does seem like it could be a problem, but if you mow carefully it doesnt seem like it be too bad, especially on more flat areas. Awesome video! 💯
I love your excitement about the Walker mowers and the awesome features. I have spent tons of time at their indoor and outdoor booths at GIE the past several years getting to know the products, the people, and the company. I am so excited to finally get one for myself next year!
good Lord Nick, you had me laughin so hard at your musical dance with the mower, I almost spit my Dasani on my monitor...you're a trip!!! be safe, be cool pardner... :)
Always enjoy your equipment reviews! Don’t even have to be in the industry to appreciate technology and innovation like that. Wow those lift up decks are amazing and the whole idea of interchangeable decks is fantastic. Thanks for an interesting and informative video and I look forward to seeing more of how the Walkers perform on the job ✅
Worked at skag, grasshopper, cub cadet,kubota dealership. Worked on walker EfI kohler was terrible to work on engine was so tight of a space. I would never recommend kohler EFI .the older EFI kohlers were also terrible to diagnose
Exmark Navigator is same as a walker with the bagger. Give a nicer cut in my opinion. Walkers are awesome mowers. The Walker rep is nuts how he rides them!
Great video Nick I was trained on a walker 15 years ago it was a bagging mower with a built in vacuum system. By far one of the prettiest cutting machines on the market at the time the only issue was wet grass in the morning would clog up the vacuum other than that and the price it was the best. Now my trainer mulches and he has a walker mulcher and a bumblebee 32 inch. He walker for life lol 😆
Great video! There’s is competition.... Toro 8000 and the Exmark Navigator.... From people that I know that have had all of them, the Toro and Exmark are more heavy duty. I don’t know personally.... Bit that’s what they say.
GHS Collection... it's all I run it's a beautiful clean cut with that vacuum and blower action that creates suck up anything in sight and my goodness you don't have to go back and forth scattering clippings like you do with a zero turn ...it's all I run and all I've ever run
Have the Walker with a bagging system, it does the best cut quality and striping with no any kit on my tall fescue lot... very good machine, expensive though...
90% of the landscapers will have a walker mower on the trailer and either a stand-on or a walk behind with the walker mower. those pop's are just because the person is not use to the machine. There is no reason for that. Last thing You either like them or you don't. I love them but i still want to get a exmark 36" hydro walk behind plus a stand-on.
Actually that % number is far less, most of the serious larger companies run toro (look at most golf courses as they run toro to maintain those greens in high standards they do) and then theirs the ones who never want problems run the shaft driven decks & diesel engines such as John deere and Kubota units. But with each one said the costs go up, my Kubota ran 15,000.00 when it was new and in that same retrospect i never (or rarely) have to worry about any breakdowns because the Kubota is built to near industrial quality standards. Most of those walkers, scag, toro & exmark have a shelf life of only about 7 years whereas the bigger diesel machines have a 20 year shelf life in the commercial lawn mowing industry - as long as they are properly taken care of...
@@MrBigbluefordsorry i ment to add in my area. but you will see a toro belt walk behind as well next they seem to like john deere for stand on but the smaller guys like toro or wright stand on all depends on
@@sgninjas yes they do my clients loved them because I went from a Scag Turf Runner which I love and will never get rid of to the Walkers and my clients loved the stripes
If you know how to run them they don't bounce I own 3 walker non bounce like thar. That bounceing its operator error. The steering is unique and people are to jerky at first.
Morning mr nick , you put him on blast lol. It's a finish mower not a hill mower lol. He should of known not to even come. Now what he should of done is brought the dump bed that picks the leaves up. That's the only good thing. The controls i felt like i was playing with myself. It has it's place but not for everybody or every lawn!!! #loyaltyiskey #ninjanation #ninjalife #ninjaforlife #sliceanddice #wapacha #LETSGETIT
Because they have absolutely NO WEIGHT in the rear. We demo'd a Super B mulch deck for a few weeks and it'll buck ya. Just get a bagging Walker, there is no competition
@@sgninjas I've looked at Walkers several times over the years and never saw anything I liked about them. Controls are scattered all over, maintenance is complicated, don't like the drive/steering control, vac is buried in the machine and a pain to work on, hydros are crammed in a tight area and tough to access, back end is excessively light to the point the factory issues a warning about it. and there's more. I'll take my Grasshopper any day over a Walker.
Toro 8000 series z collector and exmark navigator collector. They are like a walker and they built them first. You can get a mulch kit if you dont want to collect.
Seems like a very nice mower. However I do not know why you would want a mower that the backend seems to constantly come up and try to slide you off the seat and jam you into the control handles.
Looks like repetitive bouncing the back like that would cause damage. Look how many times that thing bounced in this video. That thing would be broke the first week of owning it.
I agree, those rear, wheel spindles wouldn't last a change with my hill properties. My properties are so bad in spots like can't run a zero turn on them, its why inhave garden tractors whereas you have to sit on opposite side of machine cuz thr hills are soo steep, zero turns just slide sideways, one property in fact has a pond at thr bottom of hill, that machine pulling that rear wheelie would probably put the thing into the pond... not much thought was put into that design I think.
@@Neonbiker,and break the rear axel with all that bouncing, exactly what walker wants you to do so you have to spend money on the repairs, its win win for them, they sell you the product and tell you its superior cuz of that feature and then when your bouncing it like that show you it eventually brakes and then they clain you were too rough on it and have to sell you a new axel. They win because you had to pay thru the arm to fix it.
@@Neonbiker BTW in the past 25 years the easiest solution to mowing hills is to have a heavy duty garden tractors on hand, problem solved. I've had industrial quality zero turns and garden tractors in my fleet for many years and have never had to abuse my equipment such as in the video. If you buy the right machine every problem is solved with out damage to equipment.
I think that rep for the mower was just going to fast showing off the speed he could cut at. I've got one and have backup many times up hills without bouncing that much. Its not the axel that will break its the wheel forks that get bent.
I actually have a diesel Kubota, I've seen the the comparisons and I'll take the actual Kubota, everything on my ZD326 is industrial quality built not commercial as he stated, guess that's why it weighs 1700 lbs lol...
YEP!!!!! tried a walker years ago & had the bucking bronco bullshit happen to me. Nearly got out of control & almost ran into a car, & I'm very adept to driving anything with wheels. Never bought one after that BS
I don’t like the idea of that mower deck being caked with all that grass that’s something they need to fix. That’s why it caused the deck to rust out really fast.
@@sgninjas yea also something to mention it doesn’t tear up the grass when you turn because one wheel goes forward the other goes backwards Great mowers just different....
For those that don’t know, you can get a tail weight kit which doesn’t effect the maneuverability of the machine or hinder performance in anyway and fixes this issue. Also, I have one of these machines and it’s all in how you use it. Walkers are a different beast and you have to learn how to use them correctly. As you can see here, these guys just need more practice.
That was too funny bro! Watching that thing pop up like it was in a low rider competition was hilarious. I would not buy that thing if it was the last ride-on mower in production.
your making fun of scag but thats what i mow with that and a gravely and i have nothing bad to say about either one of them maybe you just need to sharpen your your blades man we just did that this evening if its not not scag or gravely it aint cutting right
Terrible that a Walker Rep doesn't know the proper operation of his product. We run Walker mowers and they don't normally do wheelies backing up a little hill.
Y'all know the throttles supposed to be at full when you mow right
It looks like a awesome mower. But that light rear end scares me. I'm not a fan if that at all.
Agree with you on that
Your supposed to go up hills backwards
It's not that going up hill backwards. It's just no weight.
I have older versions. Walker makes a weight to put in the back to counter it. The guy running it obviously doesn't run the a super ton. I never get that bounce usually happens to newbies. I won't buy any other mower.
@@Hoefy88 Its similar to a JD F725 I've ran... but it didn't hop like that, I feel like the CG is too high on this machine.... the JD was also a rear steer and longer as well as being a heavy diesel so that probably alleviated it... I am surprised they ship a mower that can be ridden in a manner that would cause this.
small one DANGEROUS
They both look like great mowers! Awesome features on them and lifting the deck like that would be really convenient! The back end lifting up like that does seem like it could be a problem, but if you mow carefully it doesnt seem like it be too bad, especially on more flat areas. Awesome video! 💯
I love your excitement about the Walker mowers and the awesome features. I have spent tons of time at their indoor and outdoor booths at GIE the past several years getting to know the products, the people, and the company. I am so excited to finally get one for myself next year!
good Lord Nick, you had me laughin so hard at your musical dance with the mower, I almost spit my Dasani on my monitor...you're a trip!!! be safe, be cool pardner... :)
😆😉👍🏻
I don’t like the fact that I practically pops willies lol. Just try a stand on Spartan and get it over with lol
Haha yeah but walker mowers make ur lawn look so much better
Are they tail light? YES. Are they an amazing machine? YES. Am I speaking from experience because I have one? Also yes.
They used to be the mower in southwest Fl. I'm the 80s and 90s when we bagged grass .They did a beautiful cut on St Augustine lawn .
Always enjoy your equipment reviews! Don’t even have to be in the industry to appreciate technology and innovation like that. Wow those lift up decks are amazing and the whole idea of interchangeable decks is fantastic. Thanks for an interesting and informative video and I look forward to seeing more of how the Walkers perform on the job ✅
Thanks bud 👊🏻
Have u seen the new Wright mower with 40hp
hello cooper
I'm a dealer 😎😎😎
No Absolutely not those things look like death trap
Is there a option to add extra weights to the rear
Yes call them
Yes you can buy a counter weight.
Frankly shouldn't be sold without one... the center of mass on that is way off.
Worked at skag, grasshopper, cub cadet,kubota dealership. Worked on walker EfI kohler was terrible to work on engine was so tight of a space. I would never recommend kohler EFI .the older EFI kohlers were also terrible to diagnose
Newish mechanic here... 1st head gasket job on an older Kohler took 13 hrs... N I'm not exactly new 2 this shít... Lol
I own two GHS machines, never had an issue with the rear lifting in an uncontrolled manner. Great tractors.
They don't look safe but they do look like fun
Agree with you on that
I dont think this video will help sell any mowers. In fact I would run from one and what about the lack of ROPS ? 🤔
I can give ya the laundry list of cons, lemme know... Lol
Garbage cut quality
I don't know if you have them down there but Grasshopper mowers are built in Kansas and they are built like tanks check them out man !
Four Grasshopper 72 inch decks, and they can walk the dog.
My gpa just bought a 2007 grass hopper with a 50 inch deck
Exmark Navigator is same as a walker with the bagger. Give a nicer cut in my opinion. Walkers are awesome mowers.
The Walker rep is nuts how he rides them!
Love these mowers. Wish I could afford one!
Nice mower!! Larger property’s this would come on handy for straight lines for sure
i know its been a while but what did the rep say about the thing dumping him out of it many many times. did he still try to sell them to you
You should try ventrac there amazing I watch them on UA-cam
Love them
Don’t know if i have a dealer near, I’ll have to look
@@sgninjas Once you test ventrac you will never go back that machine will be the best machine ever a year round machine
@@raybond5155 Yeah I watch them on there UA-cam channel
Ventrac or steiner same difference
Great video Nick I was trained on a walker 15 years ago it was a bagging mower with a built in vacuum system. By far one of the prettiest cutting machines on the market at the time the only issue was wet grass in the morning would clog up the vacuum other than that and the price it was the best. Now my trainer mulches and he has a walker mulcher and a bumblebee 32 inch. He walker for life lol 😆
I haven't seen these mowers in years! Use to see all the time back in 98 2002... after that nomore where I live
Great video! There’s is competition.... Toro 8000 and the Exmark Navigator.... From people that I know that have had all of them, the Toro and Exmark are more heavy duty. I don’t know personally.... Bit that’s what they say.
I ran the walkers with a rear box and it’s the only thing I run now
GHS Collection... it's all I run it's a beautiful clean cut with that vacuum and blower action that creates suck up anything in sight and my goodness you don't have to go back and forth scattering clippings like you do with a zero turn ...it's all I run and all I've ever run
Love the videos keep up the good work and do u still recommend the scag
Are you going to trying out the new stand on spartan? I’m really excited to test it
i hope he does im looking forward to seeing more about that mower as well
Have the Walker with a bagging system, it does the best cut quality and striping with no any kit on my tall fescue lot... very good machine, expensive though...
Pricey that’s for sure 💯
90% of the landscapers will have a walker mower on the trailer and either a stand-on or a walk behind with the walker mower. those pop's are just because the person is not use to the machine. There is no reason for that. Last thing You either like them or you don't. I love them but i still want to get a exmark 36" hydro walk behind plus a stand-on.
Well said 👍🏻
Actually that % number is far less, most of the serious larger companies run toro (look at most golf courses as they run toro to maintain those greens in high standards they do) and then theirs the ones who never want problems run the shaft driven decks & diesel engines such as John deere and Kubota units. But with each one said the costs go up, my Kubota ran 15,000.00 when it was new and in that same retrospect i never (or rarely) have to worry about any breakdowns because the Kubota is built to near industrial quality standards. Most of those walkers, scag, toro & exmark have a shelf life of only about 7 years whereas the bigger diesel machines have a 20 year shelf life in the commercial lawn mowing industry - as long as they are properly taken care of...
@@MrBigbluefordsorry i ment to add in my area. but you will see a toro belt walk behind as well next they seem to like john deere for stand on but the smaller guys like toro or wright stand on all depends on
Dead on its operator error. I have 3 Walkers and will get no other. Usually its someone new to Walker and has never run them.
I love my Walker Mowers I own 2 T23 Walker Mowers so 2 baggers and 1 B18 mulching mower love all of them
They do have an amazing cut that’s for sure. 🔥👌🏻
@@sgninjas yes they do my clients loved them because I went from a Scag Turf Runner which I love and will never get rid of to the Walkers and my clients loved the stripes
The H27 looks more the Grasshopper design.
The grasshopper my grandpaw has... the deck lever on it pinched the crap out of him at one point. Really nice mower otherwise though.
That was pretty cool with that feature of lifting the decks very cool Idea :-) wish you and Busy Bee well God Bless
Grasshopper has hydraulic lifts for the decks
Man iam glad I didn't get one . That backup crazy lift is dangerous. Back breaker.
If you know how to run them they don't bounce I own 3 walker non bounce like thar. That bounceing its operator error. The steering is unique and people are to jerky at first.
j.d. had the same design , the f620 f680 f687 many years ago , i still have a f687 , don't know why j.d. stopped making them .
Toro and exmark have something similar
Love both my walkers.
Morning mr nick , you put him on blast lol. It's a finish mower not a hill mower lol. He should of known not to even come. Now what he should of done is brought the dump bed that picks the leaves up. That's the only good thing. The controls i felt like i was playing with myself. It has it's place but not for everybody or every lawn!!! #loyaltyiskey #ninjanation #ninjalife #ninjaforlife #sliceanddice #wapacha #LETSGETIT
Ps that made my morning 🤣🤣🤣 out to get it now #LETSGETIT
You probably were
They look dangerous nick😂why does the back of the mower come up like that
LoL they are lots of fun and very different. The back is suppose to do that anytime ur on a hill
@@sgninjas 😂it does look fun but it almost looked like u was falling out of the seat wean you was putting it on the trailer
Because they have absolutely NO WEIGHT in the rear.
We demo'd a Super B mulch deck for a few weeks and it'll buck ya.
Just get a bagging Walker, there is no competition
@@sgninjas I've looked at Walkers several times over the years and never saw anything I liked about them. Controls are scattered all over, maintenance is complicated, don't like the drive/steering control, vac is buried in the machine and a pain to work on, hydros are crammed in a tight area and tough to access, back end is excessively light to the point the factory issues a warning about it. and there's more. I'll take my Grasshopper any day over a Walker.
@@farmrboy01 I wonder how the exmark navigator compares to them. I’m starting to see the exmark is built better
Will we see Walker on the channel ?
The back end jumping like that sowers me out. Grate cut though.
So the system is a hybrid between a walk behind and ZTR
Grasshoppers are similar, just not the controls and the bagging system
Toro 8000 series z collector and exmark navigator collector. They are like a walker and they built them first. You can get a mulch kit if you dont want to collect.
Negative walker was definitely first
Ninja Mike in the house!!!
#wapacha
Seems like a very nice mower. However I do not know why you would want a mower that the backend seems to constantly come up and try to slide you off the seat and jam you into the control handles.
Grasshopper out front mowers don’t do that...mine doesn’t anyway...it’s got a counterweight kit 😎
Unique mowers, thank Steve for us.
Yes you can get multiple decks, except the decks on there own are as much as a whole mower
Bad thing parts are hard to get and no where around Rockford Illinois to buy one every time i see them they are broke down and super dirty.
When the walker is out of control, your supposed to put it in neutral right?
make a mower that dont do that is what u suppose todo dumbass design
There is alot I like about the walker, however my back is now wanting tender care. So the bucking bronco don't appeal to me.
Looks like repetitive bouncing the back like that would cause damage. Look how many times that thing bounced in this video. That thing would be broke the first week of owning it.
I agree, those rear, wheel spindles wouldn't last a change with my hill properties. My properties are so bad in spots like can't run a zero turn on them, its why inhave garden tractors whereas you have to sit on opposite side of machine cuz thr hills are soo steep, zero turns just slide sideways, one property in fact has a pond at thr bottom of hill, that machine pulling that rear wheelie would probably put the thing into the pond... not much thought was put into that design I think.
5 star property service well your supposed to go up hills backwards with walkers that’s what a rep told me and showed me
@@Neonbiker,and break the rear axel with all that bouncing, exactly what walker wants you to do so you have to spend money on the repairs, its win win for them, they sell you the product and tell you its superior cuz of that feature and then when your bouncing it like that show you it eventually brakes and then they clain you were too rough on it and have to sell you a new axel. They win because you had to pay thru the arm to fix it.
@@Neonbiker BTW in the past 25 years the easiest solution to mowing hills is to have a heavy duty garden tractors on hand, problem solved. I've had industrial quality zero turns and garden tractors in my fleet for many years and have never had to abuse my equipment such as in the video. If you buy the right machine every problem is solved with out damage to equipment.
I think that rep for the mower was just going to fast showing off the speed he could cut at. I've got one and have backup many times up hills without bouncing that much. Its not the axel that will break its the wheel forks that get bent.
Walkers are the Swiss Army knives of mowers 💯
The cut truly is beautiful no doubt
Need a couple rear counter weights
Awesome video Nick
Thank you Luke 👍🏻
@@sgninjas Your welcome
Still cuts better than any other machine while doing tricks!
You obviously haven't tried any other machine...
@@JohnDoe-vs1kj oh?
Great work and thanks for the content stay safe and take care
Thanks Hayden
@@sgninjas No problem Nick 👍
If someone who is trained to use that machine is having so much trouble on seemingly normal slopes, it’s just not safe and needs a redesign.
I wish he would have slowed down the cutting footage; I wanted to see how the steering levers worked.
16:39 if you want to see some bull riding lol
Love Walkers my choice of mower.
Who’s a Ninja we are called Landscaper’s
😂🤣 sup my landscaping Ninja 😏👊🏻
There are almost no walkers in my area thankfully they are like a miniature mower with the same price tag. Strange trans operation ( weird)
Why are you mowing WET Grass ?? These are beautiful lawn mowers tho.
Well guess I couldn’t use it in WV!
My walker is a 2017 kubota diesel pre def fluid ...bagger system
Nice 👍🏻 I bet that thing is a tank!
I actually have a diesel Kubota, I've seen the the comparisons and I'll take the actual Kubota, everything on my ZD326 is industrial quality built not commercial as he stated, guess that's why it weighs 1700 lbs lol...
YEP!!!!! tried a walker years ago & had the bucking bronco bullshit happen to me. Nearly got out of control & almost ran into a car, & I'm very adept to driving anything with wheels. Never bought one after that BS
I used the old three wheel hustlers eariy mid 70!
I don’t like the idea of that mower deck being caked with all that grass that’s something they need to fix. That’s why it caused the deck to rust out really fast.
Could really do without the rap
We could all do without country music but what's your point
the only thing i dont like is grass and bugs get all over you because the deck is in the front
Never thought of that, that’s a good point thanks
@@sgninjas yea also something to mention it doesn’t tear up the grass when you turn because one wheel goes forward the other goes backwards
Great mowers just different....
Mine doesn’t bounce, this is operator inexperience.
scag anyday of the week!
Wheelies aren't anything to be proud of. Should show how awkward it is to get on and off. No prize in my mind.
Wow I really don’t like those .. Shouodnt be hooping like that all the time unless that’s normal I dunno
When that back end lifts up, nothing is funny anymore.
Toro aka exmark makes a direct collect bagger like walker
Sweet mowers👍
They are very cool but yet very different
@@sgninjas yes I have researched a couple
It looks like a monte carlo when it does that
LoL 😆
I was thinking a G-body Cutlass.
The bouncing replays to the music killed me😂
Me too 😜😂😉
WHY DID WALKER LEAVE OFF THE BEER HOLDERS >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I would not won't that thing hitting me in my back.
That is a problem with the dezine. You see that thing nearly bucking him off.
For those that don’t know, you can get a tail weight kit which doesn’t effect the maneuverability of the machine or hinder performance in anyway and fixes this issue. Also, I have one of these machines and it’s all in how you use it. Walkers are a different beast and you have to learn how to use them correctly. As you can see here, these guys just need more practice.
I bought one they charge me 250 + bucks for it rip off For something that dangerous it should come standard
Looks like a pile of junk to me
Yall out there popping wheelies? Is that what walker wheelies are? Hell, i don't know. They kan keep them things. #wapacha
🤣😂🤣 cuts better then dem dem scabs....just sayin 😏✊🏻🤣
Not made for hills
About dayum time you tried the best cutting machine made! 😎
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@@sgninjas once you learn the machine. You’ll mow lawns more efficient and faster.
Less trimming as well.
I personally never really liked them. Never cared for the drive system and how much they like to hop like that.
They are very different that’s for sure
I would call this mower a flat lander, runs great on flat land but not good on hillside.
Those mowers are probably the ugliest things I’ve ever seen
That was too funny bro! Watching that thing pop up like it was in a low rider competition was hilarious. I would not buy that thing if it was the last ride-on mower in production.
but it goes to 11
I don't think that guy knew you have to be in neutral when you reverse or your going to be riding a bull lol
Or smoothly put it in reverse.
Does not look save popping up like that. Was really interested until i saw this.
Awesome video But Nick
#wapacha 😉🔥👊🏻
your making fun of scag but thats what i mow with that and a gravely and i have nothing bad to say about either one of them maybe you just need to sharpen your your blades man we just did that this evening if its not not scag or gravely it aint cutting right
There's the reason why most don't run walker, that's a unsafe mower that ass end lifting is a lawsuit waiting to happen.
all the info except price point