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Grass_Slayer
02-24-2002, 11:10 PM
just went to the lawn and garden show in jackson, tn. i saw the awesomest zt ever. it is a dixie chopper, i always knew they were the fastest mowers in the world but i had no idea they made one like this. it had twin kawi 23hp vtwins on it!!!!!! i have never even seen a mower come anywhere close to this. i dont know if it is new or old but it was so awesome!!! and only 11,400 at the show!!!
LAWNGODFATHER
02-24-2002, 11:30 PM
Subur N Turbin
Grass_Slayer
02-24-2002, 11:34 PM
thats it i just couldnt remember the name of it. does anybody have one, it looked almost like it was too extravigant.
Randy Scott
02-24-2002, 11:55 PM
I have never seen one either, not that it matters. I am curious as to why, or what the purpose is to having two engines on it. How large of a deck does it have? Do both motors drive the one deck? This just seems strange to me.
LAWNGODFATHER
02-25-2002, 12:03 AM
No MFG make a vert engine over 25hp, so DC put 2 on for double the hp.

They both have clutches and run all the same stuff.
Premo Services
02-25-2002, 08:58 AM
[Randy Scott] I have never seen one either, not that it matters. I am curious as to why, or what the purpose is to having two engines on it. How large of a deck does it have? Do both motors drive the one deck? This just seems strange to me.

I have a 23 horsepower kaw on a lazer, and could only imagine what it would be like with two of them. From what the people say that have them on the posts about them, I can sum it up in two words ZOOM ZOOM :D
Hookset
02-25-2002, 09:38 AM
I was there in Jackson it was the Dixie Chopper, first one I've seen up close. I can see why these younger guys are so impressed. Me, my hot rod days are over. I wasn't impressed with the chains and sprokets on the deck. It must burn about a gallon of fuel to the hour.
Grass_Slayer
02-25-2002, 01:44 PM
it just looked awesome, kinda like one of those jet engined mowers. i dont think it could be very practical just cause it uses so much gas. and hookset have u been to the river lately?
ohiolawnguy
02-25-2002, 02:33 PM
dixie used to do that with yanmar engines too, i believe. i thought i saw it a few times in TURF, PRO, or GROUNDS MAINTENANCE magazine.
vipermanz
02-25-2002, 05:43 PM
Originally posted by LAWNGODFATHER
Subur N Turbin

Surburb N' Turbin?
Grass_Slayer
02-25-2002, 06:06 PM
they call it the suburbn turbn cause the two motors are synchronized by the vacum from the carbs. they turn a turbine inside the air cleaner or somethin and it goes back to a couple of gauges that are supposed to run the motors at the same vacum pressure.

somebody had to sit up all night to figure that out!!