Best & Worst lawn Mower of the Year- Husqvarna, Toro Grandstand or Wright stander z

This is going to be the ultimate mower battle. Well, I have a wonderful electronic invention I want you to see. It looks something like you. [Music] You get into that neutral position and it flings and the whole unit stops. You definitely playing. [Music] I don't have the largest hands, I'll be honest. But this is really far away. Like, it's uncomfortable. So, is there anything you actually like about this more, Brian? Um, it's like some companies don't want me testing out their tools and equipment. I can't figure out why. There's a lot of things I can see we have room for improvement on on this thing. Yes, sir. That does a good job of flattening the grass, right? But if I wanted to run over it, I could bring my four-wheeler out here and do just about as good of a job and have a little bit more fun Sure. than I could doing with this. All right, guys. So, today didn't turn out the way I expected it would. I went to Detroit and I hooked up with my buddy Brian from Brian's Lawn Maintenance. And this guy does an amazing job of doing reviews on equipment. His attention to detail is like psychic. I mean, I don't really know what that means, but what I'm trying to say is he does a really good job. And so, today you're going to get his feedback on what he really thinks of this Huscoarna lawn mower. And then I give it a test run. And then I let Elliot give it a test run and we all kind of start to come to the same conclusion that until they improve this design. Maybe you should just test it out before you buy it. Oh, hey, one last thing guys before we get too far into this video. I want to make sure that you guys understand that I think this is literally the prototype of the lawnmower. I think it may be first gen at best. So, if you guys are looking at buying one of these, there's a very good chance that they've modified the design and made the improvements that we're pointing out in this video. If they haven't, well, I got nothing to say if they haven't. Whatever you want to do. All right, guys. I'm here with my buddy Brian and we're looking at the Huskabara. Tell me exactly what we're looking at. This is Husqavarna's brand new lawnmower. We got the V554. In fact, they just dropped it off about a week and a half ago. So, we've been demoing it. We got about 12 hours on it so far under our belt. This is Husqavarna's uh introduction to the standon game. So, so far we've been able to use it for the last week or two, like I said, and quite honestly, uh I there's some things I like about it, definitely some things I don't like about it. I'm sure we'll get into it here on this video. Uh it's a sweet mower, honestly. Straight up. It's been fun to use the last couple days, and um some things I like, some things I don't. Okay. Well, tell me tell me about it. I want to know everything about it. Now, you first off Yeah. Let's clarify something. Elliot, look over here real quick. This is the type of stuff you're mowing with it, right, Brian? Yep. Okay. We got Kentucky blueg grass. This is a couple inches. What Brian doesn't know is I'm going to do something you typically wouldn't do with it. Oh, before we get into what I plan on doing with this, I actually want to know your experience using it in a professional environment just mowing dayto day, taking it out on commercial sites. Sure. And I'm sorry guys, it's super windy out, but I mean it's hopefully you guys can hear us. Okay, we don't have mics, no level ears. Right. Right. Right. So, um I am not too familiar with standown units. Most of you guys know I'm an Xmart guy. I use Laser Z sit down lawnmowers, but uh we've been demoing a lot of standown units on my channel lately. He's old school. Old school, brother. You know, but the standowns are awesome. I'm in the market for one in the next 12 months. So, I've been having a lot of companies demo them to me so I can see what I'm going to pull the trigger on here probably this fall or next spring. So, this is the second that I've used so far as a demo. This one's from Husqavarna. This is a uh 24 25 horsepower engine. Uh 54 in cutting deck. I think 10 or 12 cc pumps on the Look at this guy. Safety first, brother. Safety first, man. Gota have the sexy specs. I gotta have somebody blast me for my safety. Wait, wait, wait. Are those DeWalt? These are I don't know. Who are these? These are DeWalt. So, I got I got Cheeto crumbs all over me. Dwalt. Oh my god. Do we just become best friends? Whoa. We used to scag the husk barn and we got the rest coming down. So, if people want to watch on our channel, that's what we're doing. What do you got coming down next? Uh Toro wants to send their grand stand. We've got Ferris is coming down. We've got um just everybody. I I'm trying to think of everybody off the top of my head, but all of them want to, you know, show off what they got. Okay. Sanders are really popular. A lot of you guys are tearing them up, so they're great units. What do you like about this one? Okay, stand on units totally different than sit down, right? I like the visibility. I'm going to shoot like just shoot it straight really quick. I like being able to see in front of where I'm at when you're sitting down. I can't see what's going on in front of my deck, right? The second thing is that I like being able to get on and off the mower really easily. I picked up more trash in the last two weeks than I did probably in 2017 because we do that debate, you know what I mean? Like, am I going to go pick up that newspaper? Honestly, no, we're not. So, we're going to run over. It's biogradable, right? Just kidding. None of my none of my customers. We pick up all their trash. Um, there's certain things I like, certain things I don't like. With this unit, Was that funny? I'm telling you, man. I pick up trash. And you guys know that debate, man. We think about it. And you get the little grabber claw on your rider, but you still using it. So, the Toro grandstands come with a garbage bag for an option. You know, that's an option. Love Toro. Um, so everything you can get anything you want if you want to pay for it. I like some things in this unit. Some things I definitely don't like. Um, I feel like this one specifically has one too many levers over here. Right. So you got your brake right here. Right. So when I'm in a panic, if I'm going over a boulevard, right, and I'm I don't want to sculpt a lawn, I have no idea super quick which one to grab. There's too much going on. This right here is your deck release. That sounds cool. Looks cool, but honestly, that is completely unnecessary in my opinion. I'm not here to slam it, but I got to bring it back up. I'd rather just be one button on top. Point number two, this lever is about 8 in too tall. It needs to be down here. If I'm going under a tree, I'm going to snag a branch. We're going to jack knife. You know how it goes. Not safe. Number three, this brake lever, the safety for the wheels needs to be on the other side. There's no reason I want to get confused with two or three levers to choose from. They should not be on this side. I want the brake lever on this side. So, it's completely isolated, completely separate. Right. I like how picky it is. No, I This is damn good. We use this stuff all day. If you want to show another part right here, you got the throttle on top when I have my safety because this has a platform, right? We don't have the safety in the platform. We have the safety on top. Now, I'm going to slam this in a second cuz I don't like this at all. But another issue is that when I have this on, which we need to make the more work, I have to move my arm over here to move the throttle up and down. I'm not going to do this. This is completely backwards. It's not intuitive. Uh if I have trouble with it as a veteran, I know new people are and that's a big safety issue. So, no bueno on that as well. We're going to talk about the cut quality of this machine in just a few moments. But before we do that, I actually want to demonstrate exactly what he's talking about with this safety lever and the automatic shut off. It's not intuitive. It's kind of wonky. And I'll tell you straight up after using it, it really makes you appreciate any other lawnmower that doesn't have it. Okay, I'm not a fan of that right there. I'm not a fan of that at all. I mean, I think that that's that is kind of wonky. I mean, without even saying anything, you were watching and you were saying, "Oh, you'd have to cut this like three, four times to hopefully get it smooth." You went over it twice and it didn't really get much better. No. But also what I'm not a fan of is the release on the hand grip. Yeah. I saw you take your hand off, the whole mower just dies. Cool. And imagine turning. So when you're turning, you got some G's pulling you. You get into that neutral position and it flings and the whole unit stops. You definitely fling. So Elliot wanted to run the machine, but being the safety chief I am, I make him put on his his ear protection. Let's see how that goes. [Music] Another thing I don't like the safety in the handle. If I'm going 3, four, 5 miles an hour, I bring it back to that neutral position. That's an easy opportunity for me to get jack knife off the lawn more gap. I'd rather not have the ability to flip up the platform and to walk it to have the safety in the platform and to get rid of this potential safety um benefit, but really it's a hindrance if you think about it in my opinion. Does that make some sense to you? You know, one thing to point out, I've noticed that not a lot of companies reach out to me to do reviews on their products unless they are 100% confident in the products that they want me to review for them. Anything that seems to be marginal or even slightly room for improvement, they go to somebody else. And when they think they picked Brian, I think they picked the wrong guy. Brian is a straight shooter and if you guys haven't checked out his channel, make sure you go over there because he's going to be reviewing all of these different standon riding lawnmowers and helping you guys decide which one is best for you. So, go over to Brian's channel and check him out. [Music] These are probably the best review of this that I've heard yet. I mean, I love how you are straight to the point. Yeah. Not cutting, not holding anything back, not saying saying anything. Yeah. No, thank you for that. Some other stuff that it sounds good on paper like when you're an engineer, right? Like you always talk about this. It sounds good on paper when you put it in the real world. It's completely backwards. You know, guys like me, we're not thinking three levers. If I'm going to sculpt a lawn on a boulevard, I want to pull one handle real quick. I got a millisecond and I don't want to get mixed up. Right. Right. Uh if you want to look inside here, this got a lot of people talking inside here. You can look at all this. It It's compact. It makes sense, but unfortunately, it's a little too tight. First, the battery is completely backwards. If I want to jump this, I cannot get jumper cables in there. It's impossible. like you have to like almost come from the side. We're looking at that. It's really really tough to do. Another thing, looking at the dipstick, if you guys look at it, if I bring it all the way up, it's almost inaccessible. So, I have to almost bend it, flex it. Where am I snaking this out from? I get compact. [Music] I kind of came to the conclusion that I don't think all engineers that build equipment actually run the equipment, especially on this lawnmower. So, you let me know what you guys think. Heat. Heat. [Music] It makes sense to have the weight distribution back here for safety, right? More stability on hills, right? But what I've noticed personally is that if I can't get access to something and it's not easy to do, i.e. maintenance, what are we going to do? We're going to forgo maintenance. Ignore it. And that and the problem is is and that's that's saying a lot. If it's the owner operator saying, I'm not going to probably be doing the maintenance when you put this in the hands of the crew member that don't have to pay the bills. Yep. Exactly. Sounds good on paper. If you want to see, here's the oil filter down here. Not necessarily something to slate or it's bad. But when you drain it, here's the uh the drain plug. Where am I going with this? I have to filter all the way down through the bottom. And that's just again there's too much going on in there. It It's okay. It's not bad. Why couldn't they have just spun it around to the front? I don't see why they couldn't have the dipstick right here. Ellie, will you grab this camera? I mean, is there any reason why they couldn't have had the fill tube right here so you can just boom, it's automatic? It's like you almost your eye is drawn to it so that you've got to take care of it. I mean, I like the fact that the that the air filter is right here, but again, how is the access on this air filter? It's tight. I'd like the weigh in more as an engineer, but I'm honest with you, I'm an actor. Okay, so that's not that's not bad. I mean, you can get at that. Okay. Right. I don't know. But just the long-term maintenance of it, some of the stuff just seems a little tucked away in there. Most mowers, it's reverse. If you guys are interested in lawnmowers, I want you to go follow his channel because he's the one that's going to be going through all of these different mowers headto head and comparing them to make and and giving all laying out all the data. Yeah. And you're the only one that I know of doing this. Well, I'll tell you straight up. I I appreciate the the the shout out because here's the deal. I'm going to be dropping 6 to9 grand of my own money here by fall. So, I'm just like you guys out there. Like I'd love to say that all of us fancy YouTubers get paid a lot and you know we're getting all this stuff sent to us, but the reality is I put my own money in the game. So if I'm dropping my own cash, that's why all the demos. When I did the test for the right uh mowers, I had that for the entire season. And I'll tell you straight up, I learned more on month 2, three, and four than I ever knew on week 2, three, or four. I want you to cut right through here. I don't know. Let's give it a shot. [Music] Heat up here. We have not ever this year been able to get a mower through that. That thing didn't even bo, huh? It didn't even bo down. That's insane. It was like a smooth ride. I know. That was intense. 100%. It took me that long so that I so that when I did that review, I could actually go, this is what I know. Right. Right. After a couple oil changes and getting your feet wet, different seasons and breaking stuff. Like I went in and I even said, "Hey, I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to beat the crap out of this mower." And and Ed Wright just said, "Yep." Well, I would love to test out the right. How did you like the right? It was a pretty cool mower. That was a good mower. That's Everybody comments, they say they're sweet mower. Well, hey, can I add one thing really quick? So, check this out. But we're also going to be uh Gravely Ambassadors coming up in this summer. So Gravely is going to give us a unit to demo for long term. So we're going to have the Gravely unit on there as well and we're going to run that probably about 100 hours this summer. So that's another one where I That's a good one to run. Exactly. I can weigh in on that pro stance because we're going to have it for the next, you know, 6 to9 months, whatever it is, going through the rest of the se. We cut I always say 100 plus lawns a week, but it's about 175 lawns. What most people see through the camera is about 1%. So, when I get mowers and units like this or any other tool, I will definitely find the kinks within the first week, if not the first month, like you were saying, because we were not actors, man. I put this stuff to work. I mean, I'm sweaty, greasy. We've been working all day. So, I was able to pick this apart in the first week, no problem, because we're using it. And so, that's what I want to do. I want to be a resource for you guys, especially on my channel, that if you're into this kind of stuff or hand tools and equipment, that you can come there, get honest feedback. So, is there anything you actually like about this more, Brian? Um, yeah. The compartment up here, it makes sense. Uh, phone keys. It's a little thing, but it's a little big thing. Okay. There's always stuff that we got to put in there. Radios, cell phones, wallet, right? Honestly, Husqavarna, they've been one of the nicest companies to work with. Straight off. Great customer service, good people. That goes a long way. Yeah. Good dealer network. So, if that's a fact and they're actually listening. Yep. Then I would expect to see that this unit's probably going to be modified. Yes. For future video references. 100%. You know, that's a great point because here's the deal. This mower has only been out since GIE last fall. Okay? So you feedback from guys like me and guys like you. Leave comments down below. The guys at corporate read this stuff and they really appreciate the feedback. So if there's something you guys like or don't like, they can double down or get rid of it in the future. So So are you going to let me join you? You want to go test it out? Okay. I don't have any waivers. So sorry, Husqavarna. It's on the dirt monkeys clock now. All right. Give me my Give me my quick lesson here. Remember you guys, come on in. I want to I want Here's your Here's your parking brake right here. Okay. Again, here's the hassle in my opinion. You have to keep this lever down. This is your safety. So, just go slow with that up front. He drives grandstand. He's He's also [Music] So, this is how you drop your deck. Hold on. Time out. Check this out. Right there. If you have to get off the mower, if you have to grab something, you have to take your left hand off that safety. Anything you touch and do on the mower, you have to hold that safety. It's not annoying. We have room for improvement on on this Yes, sir. That does a good job of flattening the grass, right? But if I wanted to run over it, I could bring my four-wheeler out here and do just about as good of a job and have a little bit more fun. Sure. Than I could doing with this. My Toro wouldn't do that. It's all I'm saying. Really? No. No. Well, there's one point in this video where I open my big mouth and I say, "Well, my Toro wouldn't do that." And well, the truth is I actually don't know if my Toro would do better or not. So, the only way I can prove if it would is if I go in some tall grass and just try it out. Okay, I can tell you straight up, pass two with the Toro looks good to me. Way better than two passes on that Huscoarno. I'll give you that much, but we're not done yet. Pass number three. Call it what you want. I don't care either way. I still like my Toro better. doesn't have the wonk out control pattern that that husky had. [Music] I don't have the largest hands, I'll be honest. But this is really far away. Like it's uncomfortable to I can't get a good grip on it. And this with it dying like that. Yeah. I can't get this down, get this up, and then reposition my hands to get them where I want without it down. What happens if you want to pick your nose or Well, you can't unless you want to use this hand. That's where we come in. Be a little more calculated. You got to think about it. You not always going to be there for him, right? You draw the line there. Yeah. Yeah. I can't think that far ahead. Well, we didn't want to say anything. The Toro grandstands, you'll notice I have not used a grand stand, right? Cuz you'll notice when you get it. Yeah. Same safety. You let go, still runs. Not when the deck's on. Okay. But if you shut the deck off, and actually, if I remember correctly, if you have the deck on, you let go, the deck just shuts off, I…