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Depends on the engine, but very well maintained 2-6 machine company will normally get 1,600-2,000 hours before you start loosing money. Large fleets will get 1,300 to 1,700. I have seen schools and Municipality mowers that have over 3,000 for gas and over 5,000 for diesel. Most of these have very routine maintenance at the dealer. My mowers are getting about 1,400 and then they start nickel and diming us. I try and put them on a rotation to get traded by 2,000 hours, because I can get a good trade price and I usually don't have a whole lot of repair cost racked up.
My hydro walkbehind has 1,600 hours and nothing has went except for belts and the cheap switches (blade, ignition, etc...). I will run this until it dies... I am buying 3 more this fall.
I think it depends on the machine, and the amount of maintenance you put into them. I worked for a company about 7 years ago that were going through the same machines in 1,000 hours and they looked like they had 3,000 more hours then they actually did.
We are looking at a fuel injected system for our 08' season buy, I have heard that they are getting some high hours in the test markets.
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Matt
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