Back in June I took part in the field research day with Cub Cadet in KY. It's a very awesome machine! I have a video of them running it on a football field.
"time is money" is where you should start from the get-go as "the pitch" *ALWAYS.* no one has the time to actually watch these feeds at full length so get to the point if you have one immediately Immediately Immediately Immediately Lots of competition all of a sudden in this market segment now too (where isn't this the case now and in any market?) so fun to watch as a "UA-cam Watchman" this posting up with John Deere and Ventrac *TURF WARS!* so to speak.
Major tractor brands have been using these systems for years, but never seen one on a lawnmower. A useful thing in large areas. Search for GPS DEUTZ FAHR, NEW HOLLAND, etc Enjoy watching.
WoW! Seeing that mower making a true zero turn and keeping a ruler-straight line is the stuff of dreams! Thanks Aaron and Brian for sharing this with us.
That is AMAZING! Thats just ingenious, it definitely works better for open areas, but thats still super cool. Great vid Brian, content is getting better and better!
We now have (4) of the Cub Pro Z 960. Love them…….it’s like having four wheel drive on a mower. No fear of retention ponds or steep steep hills. Mowing with one hand is kinda cool too.
We have a 560 PRO Z KW S Cub Cadet and absolutely love it. Nobody running stick mowers want to admit that the steering wheel models offer superior stability on hills and slopes - but they do.
I recently purchased a new cub cadet pro x 600 stander and I absolutely love it. Have ran toros and Ferris in the past, and they don’t compare to my cub. Great mowers and this is definitely a game changer on the bigger properties!
I expect the market to be pretty limited. How many people will actually NEED this, as in it's truly value added and there will be a return on investment for additional cost of this system? Not to mention, just more expensive stuff to break. I have a recommendation to Cub Cadet - how about focusing on manufacturing enough units of say, for example, the xt2 gx 50 or 54d? Is that too much to ask???
@@solarsynapse I can remember sitting on the side of a 2,000 acre corn field in the early 90's...One guy sitting in a pick up truck was running (6) combines in a stepped off formation harvesting corn...it's been a while.
Pretty cool. Appreciate the time put in this video. They are getting closer to having self operational mowers I think. Maybe one day they will figure out how to and you can just trim and blow as it does it thing. And it will also resolve the labor issues many face these days.
My mind is blown. I have 2 pretty large properties here where I live in Central jersey (about 11 acres total) This would be such a time AND money saver. I think I just fell in love with a machine lol. Love the content as usual. Keep grinding brother. Best of luck to you this season.
Exmark needs to jump all over this!! This is incredible technology. Anything to help make the quality of service we all strive to provide that much better is always the end goal !!
At the end of the day Autonomous should focus on eliminating the operator with labor shortages. Kudos to Cub for bringing a new design to the table however I don’t see a big advantage of this feature. Thanks for showing off new technology..
@@caseyholthaus6626 yep, that’s what Wright is working on. You run your perimeter pass, set your line, and then get off the mower and it goes without you. You can then trim, pull weeds, etc. I was apart of a dinner meeting with Cub Cadet where we discussed this technology a few years ago, along with 4 other landscape owners. We all said that full autonomous is what is needed, doesn’t look like they listened.
The thing is, nobody but Cub Cadet can jump all over this at this time, because the steering depends on having a steering wheel and steering front wheels. This would be prohibitively hard to do on a regular machine with crazy wheels up front and modulating two hystat motors independently.
@@tommyw.9424 don’t think it would be that hard. Their front steering runs linkage back to the hydros. You could imitate that with linkage a servo on something like an eXmark.
Great video Brian, it’s just amazing on how far these mowers have came! I looked up the price tag and $24,999.00 is the unit that was in this video, that is a lot to spend on a mower.
@@aarongriffith1321 Cub Cadet website currently lists the 972 SD as being equipped with SurePath. But the 972 SDL is not listed. Do you not plan to equip the 972 SDL with SurePath?
I love this unit, i wish there was a smaller less expensive version. Not practical for the everyday lawn care guy, more for giant properties baseball football and soccer fields. Very cool i wish schools would hire out to general landscape contractors.
@@xaniel1553 yea no robots can't farm. just look at planes they can almost fly them selves yet they still need pilots because auto pilot is not perfect. robots cant see like us take the ground conditions how does it tell if its dry. wet or mud?
I love my ProZ 500, I have tooooo many Trees for a GPS but the Steering wheel is great on mowing side hills along my long driveway. It is easier to drive then one with 2 sticks( one hand to steer and one for a cold beverage)
Before we know it we'll be driving past a property with a zero turn mowing on its own and navigating around flower beds opening and closing the discharge chute!
Wonder how fatigued your leg would get after a full day of mowing controlling the throttle. I think I'd like to be able to push the joystick forward to make it go forward versus using a pedal.
@@ledferg our larger PRO units do not have the cruise control unfortunately. It’s a different system and we would be asked to limit it to a speed most wouldn’t want to use it at.
Probably not much at all. Your arms don't get fatigued bad after a full day of mowing controlling a zero turn bars or stander levers, I can't see a little pedal being any worse. Like driving a pickup.
Seriously a potential game changer on larger properties and a selling point as well if you can get Lazer straight lines thats worth charging for more for Seriously.
After you use these mowers for a day or two you will find that you don’t have to “head lean” like one does when using a sit down zero turn mower. Amazing technology
I been watching your videos for some time i just start mine business i am on southern california i wonder id i can mulch all year long on this area ? And also how many degrees is on your area when you start mulching and when you stop mulching thank you for making your videos they have help me a lot
By the time it gets cheap enough to be adopted on a large scale smaller mower outfits should be able to afford it. CC is innovating here for sure though.
I really don't need GPs, but when the Dixie Chopper makes her last cut, a steering wheel zero turn will be her replacement. It'll look good with all of the other CC stuff around here. I'll continue to use tractors for tractors and mowers for mowing.
Thank for your interest. The retail price of the product is $23,999 for a 60” and $24,999 at retail but we do offer fleet discounts. The warranty is 3 year no hour limit and the deck has a 5 year/1750 warranty on the shell, spindles and spindle pulleys which is our standard warranty. The subscription for the gps service is included in the price for the first 12 months. After that the tech package cost is $1,000 per year.
I would love to see a comparison to the autonomous unit that you mentioned in another video. I think it was a Toro or maybe an exmark. Seems like having no labor to pay is worth the investment
Add SONAR and bump sensors and a trimmer on the right. Actually, it's easy, if not easier, to control a traditional ZTR with 2 servos. I did it using RC, but I would really like to have computer guidance.
Nice mower but is it worth the really hefty price tag I am sure it carries, just to have straight line cuts, because once your done mowing, how straight it cuts really is not the most important feature . Technology is nice but for something like this, you still have to sit on it and steer around objects when needed so the GPS works when on the straights, just seems like a big expense to have a mower on cruise control and autosteer when the rider can do all that. I did not hear any mention of price?
If you say skip rows, does it automatically adjust to a new line or does it go to the previous line. Say if you were going around a house and wanted to do the one side and then the other.
That is somewhat a tough question to answer through a message but I’ll try. The gps system draws a straight line forever when you set the a/b point. We have also built in striping logic so it basically notices which direction you are going for each line, let’s say you are headed south on the stripe down the middle of the house in the front yard when you go to the back that same line will go south. The idea is that if you took a drone shot all the stripes would be in the same direction regardless of obstacles. I hope this answers your question. If not reach out through the website and we could potentially schedule a demo with you to show you.
@@sethhuus still somewhat difficult to explain but I’ll still try. It will go to the closest line for going in the direction you are going when you hit the auto/gps. As long as you are close and not 10 feet off it will go to the line you were on
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GPS powered and guaranteed straight lines with new guys, uhh yes please!
Back in June I took part in the field research day with Cub Cadet in KY. It's a very awesome machine! I have a video of them running it on a football field.
@@paradiselandscapes535 Can you please post that video on your channel?
Where's the video on how you like driving it?
Awesome. I love it. Thanks for the video.
"time is money" is where you should start from the get-go as "the pitch" *ALWAYS.*
no one has the time to actually watch these feeds at full length so get to the point if you have one immediately
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Lots of competition all of a sudden in this market segment now too (where isn't this the case now and in any market?) so fun to watch as a "UA-cam Watchman" this posting up with John Deere and Ventrac *TURF WARS!* so to speak.
Wow, that's insanely cool lawn tech!
Major tractor brands have been using these systems for years, but never seen one on a lawnmower. A useful thing in large areas.
Search for GPS DEUTZ FAHR, NEW HOLLAND, etc
Enjoy watching.
WoW!
Seeing that mower making a true zero turn and keeping a ruler-straight line is the stuff of dreams! Thanks Aaron and Brian for sharing this with us.
Okay…. That is one of the coolest things I have ever seen!!
Stop by and see us at GIE next week Blake
@@aarongriffith1321 I will!
ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!!!
Hopefully, we can eventually get this system on 42" residential units. Many of us are lawn nuts. Or so I've heard. 😁
This reminds me so much of the autosteer farmers use in their equipment. Great video.
Ok…I’m TRULY impressed!!!
Wow cub cadet is killing it. That is some fancy lawn tech.
That is AMAZING! Thats just ingenious, it definitely works better for open areas, but thats still super cool. Great vid Brian, content is getting better and better!
We now have (4) of the Cub Pro Z 960. Love them…….it’s like having four wheel drive on a mower. No fear of retention ponds or steep steep hills. Mowing with one hand is kinda cool too.
Thanks for your business and support Kevin.
So you have $100k tied up in mowers? yikes
How about downtime for repairs and maintenance?
We have a 560 PRO Z KW S Cub Cadet and absolutely love it. Nobody running stick mowers want to admit that the steering wheel models offer superior stability on hills and slopes - but they do.
Any problems with it.. Does it tear up grass at all
I recently purchased a new cub cadet pro x 600 stander and I absolutely love it. Have ran toros and Ferris in the past, and they don’t compare to my cub. Great mowers and this is definitely a game changer on the bigger properties!
I also purchased the Pro 600 36"deck and cant say enough good things about it.
Thanks for the feedback brother
Thank you for your business and support
I want to see a municipality use this to have the whole town mowed in the same direction. Awesome video! Glad this is coming to mowers
I just drove a 960 yesterday. Talk about an amazing machine.
Cub cadet is changing the game!!
DUDE!!!!!!!! I want one!! Awesome!! Thanks for sharing Brian!
Brian I’m with B&B lawn care that is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen that is unbelievable👍
The final aerial drone shot alone will sell a boat load of those units, those lines were straight as arrows. I am thoroughly impressed!
I expect the market to be pretty limited. How many people will actually NEED this, as in it's truly value added and there will be a return on investment for additional cost of this system?
Not to mention, just more expensive stuff to break.
I have a recommendation to Cub Cadet - how about focusing on manufacturing enough units of say, for example, the xt2 gx 50 or 54d? Is that too much to ask???
I know this was posted over a year ago, it this is some crazy technology right there! I am in awe!
Farm tractors have had this technology for a long time but it is so cool to see it in a mower...I would love to have one of these!!
"Long" time. LOL There are fully automatic golf course mowers, too.
@@solarsynapse I can remember sitting on the side of a 2,000 acre corn field in the early 90's...One guy sitting in a pick up truck was running (6) combines in a stepped off formation harvesting corn...it's been a while.
Probably the best thing you could add to a mower for bigger properties.. That's next level.
💯💯🔥
Pretty cool. Appreciate the time put in this video. They are getting closer to having self operational mowers I think. Maybe one day they will figure out how to and you can just trim and blow as it does it thing. And it will also resolve the labor issues many face these days.
The best video this week well done guys
Lol, man thats the Cadillac I wanted to see!! Yeah baby!! Brian another great job.
This tech has been on Farming equipment for a long time, about time it made it to landscaping equipment!
I tried this and works perfectly. Not one flaw with the cut on it, it did it right!
Good feedback thx bro!
Love my Cub Pro Z 960 S; nothing beats it on hillsides. But that gps option is friggin' AWESOME!
My mind is blown. I have 2 pretty large properties here where I live in Central jersey (about 11 acres total) This would be such a time AND money saver. I think I just fell in love with a machine lol. Love the content as usual. Keep grinding brother. Best of luck to you this season.
Exmark needs to jump all over this!! This is incredible technology. Anything to help make the quality of service we all strive to provide that much better is always the end goal !!
At the end of the day Autonomous should focus on eliminating the operator with labor shortages. Kudos to Cub for bringing a new design to the table however I don’t see a big advantage of this feature. Thanks for showing off new technology..
@@caseyholthaus6626 yep, that’s what Wright is working on. You run your perimeter pass, set your line, and then get off the mower and it goes without you. You can then trim, pull weeds, etc.
I was apart of a dinner meeting with Cub Cadet where we discussed this technology a few years ago, along with 4 other landscape owners. We all said that full autonomous is what is needed, doesn’t look like they listened.
The thing is, nobody but Cub Cadet can jump all over this at this time, because the steering depends on having a steering wheel and steering front wheels. This would be prohibitively hard to do on a regular machine with crazy wheels up front and modulating two hystat motors independently.
@@tommyw.9424 don’t think it would be that hard. Their front steering runs linkage back to the hydros. You could imitate that with linkage a servo on something like an eXmark.
God I want a new cub so badly, Thant’s an amazing machine
It’s honestly a super cool unit
I have the 500 series. It’s a really great and reliable mower!
That was cool. What surprised me is the fact that this technology wasn't out sooner. I'm surprised that Cub Cadet is first!
That is insane. Technology is the best
That’s great mr Brian! The grass is looking really great!
Didn't think it would be cool but yeah it's pretty awesome
Very cool tractor !
Wow! Game changer for large accounts.
Cool for massive lots. Useless for most residential lawns with many obstacles.
I don’t think small yards is their goal with this. Municipalities, soccer fields and schools.
I have gotten more compliments and people stopping to ask about my pro z 100. You just can't beat them. As an arm amputee I can't be happier.
Thank you for your business and support.
How cool is that technology boys. Imagine ten years from now.
rob is legit out there str8 chilling dude needs a book
Lol 💯💯
Some things should be kept simple....mowers are one of those things!
Bro, This is awesome.
Great video Brian, it’s just amazing on how far these mowers have came! I looked up the price tag and $24,999.00 is the unit that was in this video, that is a lot to spend on a mower.
Yes that is the price for the 72” model with the surepath system on it.
@@aarongriffith1321 Cub Cadet website currently lists the 972 SD as being equipped with SurePath. But the 972 SDL is not listed.
Do you not plan to equip the 972 SDL with SurePath?
@@dlmp70 we are not putting Surepath on any of our dual wheeled units only the single wheel versions
Those lines are crispy
Slowly and surely we are heading towards completely automated mowers! Very exciting
They already exist, small and large.
This is awesome.
Holy cow. That’s absolutely amazing. I wonder how far away mapping patterns for ball fields is?
That’s a sweet mower!
I love this unit, i wish there was a smaller less expensive version. Not practical for the everyday lawn care guy, more for giant properties baseball football and soccer fields. Very cool i wish schools would hire out to general landscape contractors.
Very clever
Now if it would detect objects you may hit or rum over.
Do these gps go out of sync?
Is there simple fix or long down time
This technology has been widely used in agricultural for two decades. Interesting to see it trickle down to this type of equipment.
robots are taking over !!
@@xaniel1553 yea no robots can't farm. just look at planes they can almost fly them selves yet they still need pilots because auto pilot is not perfect. robots cant see like us take the ground conditions how does it tell if its dry. wet or mud?
Awesome 👍🏼
That is actually like the coolest thing! Wow super cool technology. I’m impressed
This just impressed the hell out of me, and I'm not easily impressed most of the time 👍
I was not interested till he started mowing and now I’m about to order one
Take my money!! This is awesome!! Thx for sharing!
My dad would love this. All mowing lines had to be perfectly straight.
That looks awesome!
I love my ProZ 500, I have tooooo many Trees for a GPS but the Steering wheel is great on mowing side hills along my long driveway. It is easier to drive then one with 2 sticks( one hand to steer and one for a cold beverage)
It's amazing how much technology in our industry is changing and changing fast. The next 5-10 years is gonna be wild
New this year! Roomba zero turn! Fire your lawn care guy! monkaS ..... I figure we have about 15 -20 years before we are by in large out of business.
Absolutely epic!
Before we know it we'll be driving past a property with a zero turn mowing on its own and navigating around flower beds opening and closing the discharge chute!
Wonder how fatigued your leg would get after a full day of mowing controlling the throttle. I think I'd like to be able to push the joystick forward to make it go forward versus using a pedal.
I believe you can lock into cruise control, I can on my pro z 148s, but I agree the joystick would be better.
@@ledferg our larger PRO units do not have the cruise control unfortunately. It’s a different system and we would be asked to limit it to a speed most wouldn’t want to use it at.
Probably not much at all. Your arms don't get fatigued bad after a full day of mowing controlling a zero turn bars or stander levers, I can't see a little pedal being any worse. Like driving a pickup.
I've often wondered why they don't make a zero turn that controls with a joystick like a power wheelchair.
@@tking1170 country clipper do them
Awesome mower, Robb good employee, he lost me second button. Cub Cadet was Farmal international
baby years back, like 1959.
That would be great for our school. We have many fields to mow. Would be great for football and baseball fields
Super cool. 😮
That was so cool. Now since Rob only has to push a button, think you should only have to pay his thumb 😁
Insane. Very cool 😎 👌
Cool technology.
The GPS also stores the mow job, so lawn care managers can improve productivity.
Awwl man that is super awesome. # no hands and GPS.
Awesome. I love it.
That is some crazy cool technology - wow!!! Hustler, Toro, Wright, Exmark, it's gonna be a standard thing in a few years - has to be....
Seriously a potential game changer on larger properties and a selling point as well if you can get Lazer straight lines thats worth charging for more for Seriously.
this is just nuts!!
That is really cool!
When rob said " I got this" it reminded me of stonecoatcountertops. That's their slogan 'You've got this."
After you use these mowers for a day or two you will find that you don’t have to “head lean” like one does when using a sit down zero turn mower. Amazing technology
I been watching your videos for some time i just start mine business i am on southern california i wonder id i can mulch all year long on this area ? And also how many degrees is on your area when you start mulching and when you stop mulching thank you for making your videos they have help me a lot
I wouldn’t see why not!
Thank you for your response back now i can go confident
Wow! This is true innovation from a mower company! Dixie chopper your done.
By the time it gets cheap enough to be adopted on a large scale smaller mower outfits should be able to afford it. CC is innovating here for sure though.
I really don't need GPs, but when the Dixie Chopper makes her last cut, a steering wheel zero turn will be her replacement. It'll look good with all of the other CC stuff around here. I'll continue to use tractors for tractors and mowers for mowing.
I want to see this on smaller lots. The typical subdivision lots you do maybe.
Amazing video bro 👍
gps guided drone mowers when?
Awesome tech
hope it comes to Australia would be nice to have got 4 acres to mow.
well there goes pride in straight line I do cemetery and I have no problem keeping lines
When will Cub be bringing out the drone mowers that leave no tire tracks?
Would be a nice upgrade to my current Cub Cadet.
Wow! Looks like they brought farming technology to lawncare😀
Wow incredible!!! Question: how much? Is it a subscription to use the gps? What kind of warranty is there?
Thank for your interest. The retail price of the product is $23,999 for a 60” and $24,999 at retail but we do offer fleet discounts.
The warranty is 3 year no hour limit and the deck has a 5 year/1750 warranty on the shell, spindles and spindle pulleys which is our standard warranty.
The subscription for the gps service is included in the price for the first 12 months. After that the tech package cost is $1,000 per year.
Thats insane
I seen Ed Wright doing something like this with his zk you set the mower to do the work then you can go trim
That system has a few upsides and tbh many downsides. I can talk about it more later, but I do admire the innovation.
I was able to ride one of those, if only I had some massive acre lawns. Seems to be very accurate
I would love to see a comparison to the autonomous unit that you mentioned in another video. I think it was a Toro or maybe an exmark. Seems like having no labor to pay is worth the investment
Add SONAR and bump sensors and a trimmer on the right. Actually, it's easy, if not easier, to control a traditional ZTR with 2 servos. I did it using RC, but I would really like to have computer guidance.
Nice mower but is it worth the really hefty price tag I am sure it carries, just to have straight line cuts, because once your done mowing, how straight it cuts really is not the most important feature . Technology is nice but for something like this, you still have to sit on it and steer around objects when needed so the GPS works when on the straights, just seems like a big expense to have a mower on cruise control and autosteer when the rider can do all that. I did not hear any mention of price?
Duuuuuude wow wow that is epic
If you say skip rows, does it automatically adjust to a new line or does it go to the previous line. Say if you were going around a house and wanted to do the one side and then the other.
Now that’s a good question, I’ll find out
That is somewhat a tough question to answer through a message but I’ll try. The gps system draws a straight line forever when you set the a/b point. We have also built in striping logic so it basically notices which direction you are going for each line, let’s say you are headed south on the stripe down the middle of the house in the front yard when you go to the back that same line will go south. The idea is that if you took a drone shot all the stripes would be in the same direction regardless of obstacles.
I hope this answers your question. If not reach out through the website and we could potentially schedule a demo with you to show you.
@@aarongriffith1321 I guess what I was trying to say is will it pick up the nearest line or will it go back to the one that it was just on?
@@sethhuus still somewhat difficult to explain but I’ll still try. It will go to the closest line for going in the direction you are going when you hit the auto/gps. As long as you are close and not 10 feet off it will go to the line you were on
@@aarongriffith1321 Yes!! That answers it perfectly. Thanks so much, you have been so very helpful.
that's awesome