Craftsman LTX 1000

[Anonymous Poster]

Thanks PJ and Bird. Kinda makes me feel "special" knowing I REALLY have a LT2000 series. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I got to use it Monday night for the first time and ****!! Even after going over a large section of my yard twice as well as generally fooling around, it still took me half the time it did before when I jogged behind my 6 speed Snapper. One thing I don't like about it is that I would like more finite control of my deck height. Overall throughout the yard I don't think I can get as low a cut as I did with my "walkers" (probably due to the deck being twice the size) but in certain places, I nearly scalped the grass at the same level settings. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif I also don't feel it mulches as well. Creeping along in 1st gear, I still got a lot of clumping. That's why I went over it twice as I mentioned above. And the grass (seeing that this was the first cut of the season) wasn't overtly long as it will get later in the season. I sure hope a set of blades that have only been used 4 times prior aren't dull already.

But I'm exstatic overall. AND, it moves along pretty good in 6th gear. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[pajoube]

Do you have the 48 inch deck? If you do, it does not come with mulching blades. You have to buy the kit which runs around $50 dollars. This may account for the poor mulch cut.
PJ

 

[Anonymous Poster]

No, it's a 42". It had the deck block off for mulching which would lead me to believe they got it all as one package at once when they bought it new from Sears. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Bird]

Mine was a 42" model also and came new with the discharge chute block for mulching (which I never used). I believe the manual also listed about 4 different blade part numbers. I had to buy new blades after I drove across a stump I thought was low enough; it wasn't; made a tiller blade out of one blade /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif.

 

[CMNTMXR57]

So, I do apologize up front for bringing an old thread back up. I was looking up some info for this tractor and this post came up in the search. I was "Anonymous" above. I completely forgot I posted those...

Anyway, I still have it (the LTX 1000) and overall, despite being used like a bulldozer (probably well past it's design intentions), in the past years since I originally posted, mid-summer last year, I tore a mandrel out of the out of the mower deck. There were parts down the alley and throughout the yard that I was finding for a few weeks after.

Anyway, being the somewhat frugal person I am, I have been keeping up on CL, preferably in the Chicago area, for another 42" deck that was clean and not rusted and nasty, to no avail. Looking to rebuild it, by the time I get the parts (figuring I'd replace both mandrel assemblies) and a new deck (as I tore it from the mounting holes), It was getting a little costly. So the Wife has given me a green light on just getting another newer tractor if I'm gonna spend the money...

So once I get the new yard whip, I will probably put the LTX up for sale as is. THe engine is still bulldozer strong, but the paint on the tractor parts has seen it's better days. Being used as a snow-plow in winter kinda did that to it...