Scag Tiger Cat II 48″ Kohler 23HP

Description

Scag Tiger Cat II 48 Inch Zero-Turn with 23 HP Kohler Command PRO

This is the least expensive machine in the Tiger Cat II range, pairing a carbureted 23 horsepower Kohler Command PRO with the 48 inch Velocity Plus deck. It is the value route into a commercially rated compact rider.

Servicing a Machine That Works Every Day

The Tiger Cat is built around flip-up access panels and an unrestricted engine compartment, which sounds like marketing until a crew is changing a belt in a yard at six in the evening. Grease zerks are reachable without a lift and the engine bay opens without tools. On a machine expected to work five days a week, minutes saved on routine access compound into days across a season.

• Cutting width: 48 inches, Velocity Plus cutter deck
• Engine: Kohler Command PRO, 23 HP, carbureted
• Drive: dual Hydro-Gear 12 cc pumps, Parker 14.5 ci motors
• Forward speed: up to 12 mph
• Fuel capacity: 9.5 gallons
• Weight: approximately 1,175 lbs

A Daily Walkaround Worth Doing

Thirty seconds before the first start catches most of what strands a machine later: a soft tyre, a weeping hose, clippings packed against the cooling fins, a blade bolt that has moved. Crews that make it a habit rather than a rule find faults in a yard where they cost nothing instead of on a customer’s lawn where they cost a callout.

Kerbs Are Harder on Tyres Than Anything Else

The damage that ends a mower tyre early is almost never tread wear. It is sidewall scuffing from riding a kerb at an angle, which weakens the casing where nothing can be repaired. Approaching square and slowly, or going round, costs seconds and saves a tyre a season.

Value Against the Rest of the Range

The STCII-48V-22FX is the Kawasaki at this width for more money. Stepping up a deck size, the STCII-52V-25CV-EFI adds fuel injection on the same Kohler family. This machine remains the cheapest way to put a commercial Velocity Plus deck under a crew.