SCAG Lawn Mowers
Scag is a relatively new producer of lawn mowers. The company started out as Scag Power Equipment in Mayville, Wisconsin in 1983. They manufactured a single product a gear-driven riding mower. At that time, Scag was under contract to Metalcraft of Mayville. The two remained separate entities until1986 when Metalcraft of Mayville, Incorporated purchased Scag. The result was rapid growth as Scag revved up the level of competition.
Scag is independently owned. It also offers some of the more powerful riding and walk-behind commercial mowers in the lawn mowing business. What started out as a one-trick pony morphed into a multi-winner company. Scag can offer customers more than 50 different types of mowers from which to choose.
Scag cut its teeth on the earlier belt-driven mowers and three-wheeled riding mowers. Its breakthrough came in 1989, the year it introduced the SWZ a duel pump and duel motor walk-behind professional mower. It won the Expo Innovative Product Award in 1990. With this under their belt, Scag manufactured the zero-turn riding mower for professionals in 1990 followed by the Super Z before turning their attention to diesel-fuelled lawn mowers.
Scag turned out their 250,000 mower in 2001 complete with special markings. The company was now manufacturing a line of walk-behinds and riding mowers that included the smallest, Z-Cat and the largest Sabre Tooth Tiger. All of them featured zero-turn systems. These were leaders in the commercial and industrial communities. The Sabre Tooth Tiger boasts a 31 hp engine, turbo-charged and a large cutting deck of either 61 or 72 inches. Its smaller cousin, the Turf Tiger has a 51-, 62- or 72-inch cutting deck. It is cuts a smaller area but does so faster than the Saber Tooth tiger: 12 mph compared to Sabre's 10.5
Scag offers smaller machines as well. Their walk-behind models feature floating decks and easy manoeuvrability. A sterling example of this type of craftsmanship is the SWZU.
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