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Frank, corners are no problem at all.
They are handled one of two ways, some sulkys (the better ones) are spring loaded and have elbows in the towbar, as soon as you step off of them the spring lifts and folds the sulky up against the mowers body, at which point you merely revert to a walk-behind mower. The tip of one toe is enough to overcome the spring and convert it back to a stand-up machine.
The simpler way though is to not cut tight into the corners and just use a 19" commercial push mower to cut those areas.
BTW, these mowers can really eat up a lot of turf in a hurry. The bigger ones like the Ferris we have is powered by a 25hp V-twin engine with twin hydrostatic transmissions (one per wheel) and can (in the real world) cut 3 acres per hour!! There is nothing like them for cutting hillsides and some special situations like that.
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That's the problem with walk behinds: they don't reverse. And there are different types of sulkys too. There is one that has one wheel in the center like a caster that you straddle (it folds up too) and there is a sit-down type too that is like a trailer. It's difficult to steer as you have to throw your arms and body way out to follow the mower handles.
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Around these parts the Wright standers are the prefered units - of course walk behinds are critical as well 36" inch units especially - for the gates and narrow areas.
I have a few wright standers, but this one is the newest - 52" cut rapid height, and 19 HP kawi motor. Makes short work of my 2 acre lot. I on occasion bring it to customers, but I dont put it in the daily mix. Its too new and I like it for me 
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another shot of the Wright Stander
I forgotto mention it cut down my mowing by 50% at least. Im able to go approx. 8 MPH in most of the areas. Cut is excellent under the majority of conditions at that speed
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Being in the country more we only sell a couple Wrights a year. The products do hold up well as we don't see them in the shops for much if anything but the simplist of maintence.
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You carry Wright's as well Art? thats a good mix, and a really strong brand of choice. The dealer I got it from moves 60 units or so a month just on them alone.
Im happy with them and I like the rapid height versions the best. I have some of the manual adjustment and the RH is a big improvement (not on cut quality but height of cut)
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Jeff, I just re-read this thread and finally noticed your comment.
What walk-behinds don't reverse, our Ferris units do, and I know the Toro units we used to have did as well?
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On the island I could see them selling that many easily. Where we are not that we don't have the commercial mowers but the bulk of people here count on it as recreational time. There are times we have talked of a city location but we haven't found a way to deal with what we have.
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All the good walk behinds reverse I missed that one as well
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I can see mowing as a very relaxing experience (most times when Im doing my own lot). gets me away from the nagging pests called humans for a few hours - but there are times when you just want to "blink" and have it done for me the ZTR gets me a close as it can be for me - without blinking 
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