Last year Hustler announced that they would be marketing Shibaru mowers in the US as Hustlers. At the time I would guess that Hustler was cash heavy from their commercial mower success and Shibaru, well everyone, would like to be in the US golf market. I think we are probably the excessive consumers on the planet. At least we were until reality set in as the bubble burst and the bottom fell out of the hot air balloon.
Still, we have this mower for a day and It doesn’t look half bad. We’ll see what it does.
It did well. A 36 HP Diesel, 5″ reels, on demand 4-wheel drive. It has most of what people are looking for. I particularly liked that it was built on a tractor chassis (turned around). This could be a player in the country . although it’s a crowded field with Toro, Jacobsen and John Deere
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