u/Comrade-Porcupine

I am in this sort of weird space between residential and commercial. Have a 6 acre hobby farm property, with my own vineyard, etc. Insofar as I have "lawns" they're more large rough grassy areas. I've eaten through a residential gas zero turn (Kubota Z125) in 10 years; bumping into t-posts or stumps and having belts fly off or, worse, deck hangers snap, etc. Not to mention the drama of general small gas engine maintenance which I hate.

Both my vehicles are electric and I hate spending $$ on gas, and I hate maintaining gas equipment. I have a few 80v Greenworks residential things which I've had mixed experiences with (chainsaw died on me, mower had some things I had to repair, but overall... fine)

I think the 80v MaximusZ which takes those same batteries would probably not hack it around here? Maybe if I babied it?

So I'm wondering about trying to find a used or cheap commercial grade zero turn -- because I can't afford a new one. But worried about what that looks like for parts, repair, support long term. Especially since around here (southern Ontario, Canada) I see very little for dealer support generally. The places that Greenworks claims are dealers just seem to sell a few residential or commercial push mowers and chainsaws, but nothing in the way of serious equipment.

Greenworks themselves seem to be selling an older 48" standon commercial zero turn on their consumer site for a reasonable price. But I'm worried about warranty and the like on that? Or replacement parts?

Basically just looking for general advice for anybody who has used this equipment in things beyond "suburban backyard"

https://github.com/rdaum/spinal-tap

Just something I needed and this might be useful to other people. I got annoyed by the complexity of setting up metrics collectors, prometheus, grafana, or vmagents/VictoriaMetrics, etc. and just threw this simple thing together which sets up a UDP server to listen for dstatsd formatted telemetry and let you see a simple TUI (via ratatui) with the current state of various metrics, including some simple charts.

https://preview.redd.it/6hdbohpvskzg1.png?width=1726&format=png&auto=webp&s=8055479580e326b84980432ad2ff6c2f6a2855a0

It doesn't do excessively anything fancy like aggregations, joining, windowing over time, just the simplest thing to quickly see the state of various metrics and verify that my telemetry is working ok.

I use this for my own local diagnostics and the like. And use fast-telemetry (https://github.com/eden-dev-inc/fast-telemetry/) for producing the data.

(For now just dstatsd protocol over udp because that's what I needed; but I might add collection of prometheus style metrics as well someday.)