Schweiss anyone?

[MOW ED]

I was going thru my old info on mowers and found a flyer from this company. Does anyone own one of these? I have all the prices and specs. It comes with Kohler or Onan gas or Lister Petter or Yanmar diesel. They claim it cuts 2 foot grass in one pass.
It has lots of options and the prices in 95 were between 7700.00 and 12842 for the diesel. They made a belly and a front with decks of 50, 60 and 72 inches. They even sell their own trailer.

This company was/is out of Sherburn Minnesota.

So how about it, does anyone have one?

I have a picture and I will e-mail it to you because even though it is under the 102k limit, it won't post.

[Eric ELM]

Email it to me and I'll post it for you Ed.

I have never seen one that I know of. I did see a mower that had 2 wheels, sort of like the Hustler one, but this one was red. Does anyone know what it is?

[Eric ELM]

The reason you could not post this, it was 940 K, which is huge. I reduced it to 45 K and here it is.

http://www.elmlawnsite.com/images/schweiss1.jpg

[MOW ED]

Thanks,
I sent ya the BIG one:D

[LJ lawn]

i posted about these a while ago,seems you don't hear much about them,everyone is into dixie or exmark --blah blah blah etc.i spoke to the co. 2 years ago only problem there is no dealer in my area.if you want to see a cool mower check out the Dyna-Mow,40 hp yanmar diesel ,joystick control,fully hydo-(deck lift,blade spindles etc)this is quite the mowing machine.should run circles around the "big three's" crap mowers anyday.

[WILSON BROS.]

My brother used to work at a mower shop and they had one come in. It had a 25 kohler on it a seemed to be way under powered. The pumps and all the moving parts used nearly all the hp. Wasn't much left for the deck. the guy that had though loved it.

[weve]

A friend of mine uses a Schweiss on his farm here in Illinois. He's had it around ten years. It is a belly mount, steers with a joystick, is green in color, and has a Briggs & Stratton engine.

[vipermanz]

why exactly does it have just one steering lever, or is it supposed to be that way?

[mowingmachine]

I would like to see it mow 2 foot tall grass clean in one pass. That is nearly impossible for a finish mower to do. I guess is probably would if you creeped at about a half mile hour or less and even then you would have trouble. If they have the front edge of the deck higher than the blade it would help but I don't think they have that. That is a pretty bold statement. I guess I would have to believe it to see it.

mowingmachine

[WREBELMACHINE]

our local d/c dealer sells schweiss and I tried a 30hp yanmar 72" cut and it will take tall wet grass extremly well. The only problems that we had was the overall size of the machine and it was a mid-mount. but the other problem is has no stripping ability. It's great for field mowing. By the way scweiss was sold out to B&H manufacturing.

[mowerconsultant]

Here is there website......
http://www.bhmfg.com/mowers.htm
Its not to helpful though............

[HOWARD JONES]

Vipermanz - the joystick control is like computer games; one stick controls both drive wheels - Snapper also uses this setup, you can do a search to find more comments about it.

[lawnboy82]

man, that is one heck of a big / ugly mower.

[Dochere]

I toyed around with one of their Z's when I was in KY. Not bad, it was built like a tank. There diesel seems to be a fair deal, and the prices are comparable to Kubota. Here are the prices (adobe) for the Gas models. http://www.bhmfg.com/mower%20price%20list.pdf

[mdb landscaping]

there is a pic of a schweiss in the recent turf mag

[vipermanz]

ohhhh like a joystick, i thought that might have been a broken one;)

[plow kid]

Originally posted by mowingmachine
I would like to see it mow 2 foot tall grass clean in one pass. That is nearly impossible for a finish mower to do.

My deere can handle 2 foot tall grass just fine@2-3 mphhttp://members.aol.com/ncls484/smilies/hehehmm.gif

[spaz74]

We had a schweiss 5O inch deck 20 hp kohler loved the mower when we sold it the hr meter showed lil over 11 thousand hours on it we had did nothing to it but put 3 new motors on it and you can mow alot of grass in 11 thousand hours it would run 16 mph on the flat we took used to be dealer for it and would go to shows and demo for ppl we could mow faster than most ppl could road there mower down the road and yes it will mow any thing hit a logg chain broke the blade in half hit a rock threw it threw the siding on a house loved the mower by far the best ever i picked up 3 of them in jackson mn 3 yrs ago

[MONTE]

Now they are the YardShark mower! I have a diesel powerd machine it is tough!

[DA Quality Lawn & YS]

my uncle had a schweiss like 15 years ago. Was a cool deal with that joystick...at a time when we were using lawn tractors to mow at the farm, my uncle had a very innovative machine.....

[MOW ED]

Wow your first post on Lawnsite and it was searched from the archives and it was mine. I remember posting this, now I have to go look for that flyer. I remember that it was all black and said SCHWEISS in big letters. This post also has my good friend ERIC ELM in it. For those of you who are new, do a search on Eric. He is a big reason this site became so great. Say a prayer for him.
Thanks for the memories and the info on Schweiss. I am still thinking there are some of these out there. Take care.

[WREBELMACHINE]

I have a very good friend that has a frontcut schweiss diesel! He really likes it!