ztr mowers

[allabout]

I was just wonder if everbody knows ztr is a brand name for dixon industries & they hold the trade mark. Here are brand names for other mowers

Excel : Hustler
Wright:Stander
bunton:bzt
toro:z master
dixie chopper:D series
scag:tiger cub
dixon: ZTR

[bob]

I didn't know that. I went on their web site and after the letters ZTR was a register trade mark.

[awm]

AND HERE I THOUGHT I HAD ME A ZTR.
Guess Ill call mine a DTMTT.dont take much to turn

[Vibe Ray]

I will not believe it!!! It can't be!!! Then what do we call what we normally called a "ZTR" type mower? Answers?

[allabout]

zero t r

[Richard Martin]

You can describe a mower as a ZTR but you can't call it a ZTR.

Dixon owns the name ZTR but not the description.

[guntruck]

Well you learn something new everyday, i always have seen that but never knew they owned it.Hmmmmmmmm

[Eric ELM]

I do know that Dixon has been building ZTR's for over 25 years and I had heard they owned the ZTR name. Dixon had a good idea. :)

[mowerconsultant]

Excel Industries Inc (Hustler) patented the first front mount mower with drive wheel steering in 1964.
Also, they patented the first dual path hydrostatic drive system in 1970.
Amazing how all these companies have influenced the mowers that are being built today.

[BobR]

I like Zero Radius Turning has any company registered (ZRT)it?
Bob

[John DiMartino]

I thik Arctic Cat has the name ZRT-in there triple cylinder snowmobiles patented.Not positive though.

[DeepDivot]

Makes me want to cry in my kleenex.

[MikeGA]

Deep divot,

All the way down this thread I thought, at the end of this thread I was going to write "Someone pass me a kleenex, I think I'm gona cry"

You beat me to the punch

[Likestomow]

You know they got Napster, so will we now have to pay royalties every time someone uses the term ZTR? Personally I'm gonna quit right now.

[Runner]

I know that Toro-Wheelhorse used that exact term ZTR on their mower when they first brought it out. This was about 15 years ago as well. Dixon already had it though. Back then, we were using old John Deere (Bunton) walk behinds, Gravely had their "Promaster" out- the stick shift short one with the motor underneath the seat, and we were riding Howard Price winged 82" cut riders. That was just before we went to the Ransomes Bob-Cat large front deck riders with the 4 cyl. engines. Boy, those were the days!:)

[allabout]

Is that real kleenex (trade mark) or just tissue paper. LOL.