The best part when you get on your first zero turn is the VERY steep learning curve to operating it.
I remember doing some detail cutting around my barn and boat...got hung and had the trailer tongue pinned hard against the mower's gas tank filler neck. Had probably only been on the mower for 5 minutes and I still remember thinking "How the F*** did I do this???"
And then I remember asking myself "Okay, which way do I pull on these levers to get out of this predicament without breaking something on a brand new $3k piece of equipment????"
Once you get past that though, they are pretty cool to run around your yard on.
I put off a ZTR purchase for years because of that learning curve. When I rode one I felt like an absolute retard. When voicing my concern, the local dealer told me “Use the exact same motions as you use pushing a shopping cart.” It was a watershed moment. It clicked immediately in my head and I cut grass with my Gravely mower like I’d been using it for ten years. Amazing...one sentence blew up my mental block.
