Scag Tiger Cat II 52″ Kohler 29HP

Description

Scag Tiger Cat II 52 Inch Zero-Turn with 29 HP Kohler Command PRO

This is the carbureted 29 horsepower Kohler in the 52 inch Tiger Cat II, priced identically to the fuel-injected 25 horsepower machine. It is the most engine available at this width for the money.

Buying Displacement Instead of Injection

Four extra horsepower is a real difference on a 52 inch deck in thick material, and it is available here only by giving up fuel injection. The trade favours this machine where the work is heavy but the hours are moderate: overgrowth contracts, seasonal knockdown, and properties visited fortnightly rather than weekly. It favours the injected alternative where hours are high and the grass is kept short.

• Cutting width: 52 inches, Velocity Plus cutter deck
• Engine: Kohler Command PRO, 29 HP, carbureted
• Cutting height: 1 to 5 inches in quarter-inch increments
• Fuel capacity: 9.5 gallons
• Seat: torsion-spring suspension with armrests
• Width with chute down: 64.5 inches

Hydraulic Oil Is Worth Looking At

Drive oil tells you more about a machine’s health than almost anything else on it, and checking it costs nothing. Clear and amber is right. Dark suggests it has been run hot, and milky means water has found its way in, usually past a seal or a cap. Neither is a reason to stop work that day, but both are reasons to book the machine in rather than wait for the drive to feel wrong.

Choke and a Carbureted Engine in Spring

A carbureted engine that has stood since autumn wants a deliberate starting routine rather than repeated cranking: full choke, a short crank, then off the choke as soon as it fires. Holding the choke on once it is running washes the bore and dilutes the oil, which does more harm over a few springs than the cold starts themselves.

The Same Price, the Other Answer

The STCII-52V-25CV-EFI is the injected 25 horsepower machine at this price, and the choice between them is genuinely about your work rather than about value. For more power with injection, the STCII-52V-34CV-EFI is the next step up on the same Kohler family.