Yard-Man 12A-978Q701 5.5 HP Deluxe 21-Inch 3N1 Self Propelled Mower

I bought one of these mowers three years ago when I saw it rated as a "Best Buy" by Consumer Reports. There are still a few reviews on line (...). At the time, it came with a B&S Intek OHV engine. We just moved into a new home with a "seeded lawn." Turned out there were more rocks and clumps than grass. The terrain was quite hilly--too much so to use a graden tractor. A front drive walk-behind would be useless prompting me to purchase one of these rear drives. It takes about 4 hours to cut my lawn. Through all the "hard times" (waiting for the grass to grow and rocks to settle) and my mower still starts on the first pull! Now that my second mower has arrived, I am going to install the last of my replacement parts (including the belt, blade and baffle-the plastic part that surronds the blade underneath the mower) in the old unit. In three years, the only part that really needed replacing was the left rear wheel (which you must buy from MTD) which I did a few weeks ago. The...Read more

I bought this mower 6 years ago, my son and i mowed lawns for the son to have extra money. we needed a better mower and found this one to be onsale. we liked the rear wheel drive, as we found that with front wheel drives as the bagger fills the weight tends to lift the front, then you have to lift the handle bars to get traction, not with this modle. this mower is the older briggs 6hp and has been worked to death(with proper maintenance)and a lot of parts have been changed or removed but, it is still working and i will buy another one!

After reading reviews I decided to go with this rear wheel drive self propelled mower over the less expensive front wheel drive versions and have to say I am very pleased with everything about this mower. It shipped for free and arrived via UPS in only about 10 days. I would recommend this mower to anyone wanting a quality lawn mower that they want to last for several years.