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Craftsman Commercial Grade Grass Catcher for 33" Wide Area Mowers Reviews
www.sears.com
| 23% of reviewers recommend
(3 out of 13)
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Most Helpful Favorable Review
sears-feed
Chicago, IL
I bought this mower to help reduce my hour and a 1/2 mow and it did just that. I have always mulched in my grass clippings and I do have to say it does a great job. For those of you who have said other wise, maybe you are not mowing soon enough. In May and June my grass will grow 2 1/2 inches in 3 days,...
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Posted on May 15, 2009
Most Helpful Critical Review
“This is a cumbersome bagger.”
Jeepr
Homer Glen, IL
As an above average assembler, I thought this bagger was difficult to install. It has to be mounted to mower, not just hung on the mower. Once bracket is installed, I found the bagger to be tricky to install on mower-and this happens every time you empty it, it takes some time to refasten the bagger...
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I bought the mower last summer and was not pleased at the amount of clippings it left behind. Today I received the grass catcher attachment hoping I could save time and leave my rake in the garage. Anyway, the attachment is horrible, poor quality of material, cumbersome to remove. Needless to say, I'll be taking it back as soon as I can. I'd choose a $10 rake over this heap of netting and plastic any day... Buyer beware, they send you zip ties to attaching the bag to the chute... nice quality.
The mower is great. The grass catcher is to hard to put on and to take off. The grass catcher is also hard to empty. The grass catcher adds to much extra time to mowing the yard.
I read other comments about the poor mulching capability but I bought it anyway. It is worse than I expected. The side discharge works great but your grass better not bee too tall because it can be pretty ugly with all the brown grass clippings. I thought it would save me time but I have to go over it a couple of times just to get the grass clippings to go be small enough to blend in. Not a great product for a home owner.
I have read these reviews and disagree. I myself own a landscaping company and I am still in young stages of it, only two years in but I added this mower to my fleet this year because a lot of my costumers gates were to small to fit my zero turn in. This mower mulches very well in my opinion. When my zero turn sit down broke down I had to use this mower for two weeks on all of my lawns. I do not have the bagger attachment nor do I need it because you could not tell that grass was left behind.
As long as you keep the blades sharp it cuts superbly. I have 25 lawns I mow weekly and none of my costumers...
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A great mower,but a lousy grass catcher.To much time to put on.Someone has to have a better idea.Sorry I got it now.
Love the mower but...
Use the attachment for a couple of customers and it could definately be better but it gets the job done. After several times of mounting and emptying the bag I found a system that works....but could be alot smoother.
It can be messy and more time consuming than necessary trying to get the grass out of the bag into a barrel but onto a mulch pile or back of a truck is not too difficult if neatness does not count. The bag needs some ribbing or additional support to help funnel the grass out of the zipped opening...wants to colapse on itself and keeps the grass from coming out...
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loved the mower but the grass catcher was just to time consuming to put on or off. You would be better to use the bags zipper and leave it on the mower when removing the grass! took the mower back just because of the bags poor design!!!Great mower bad grass catcher!
The bagger and hardware are very well made, with heavy duty brackets that could withstand alot more abuse then they'll get just being used for bagging. But that's about the last positive thing I have to say. The attatchment on the bottom needed some encouragement (hammering) to get the slots to line up properly to afix to mower. The bag is attatched to the chute with a zip tie, so it cannot be removed for emptying. This is a major problem if you want to empty into a trash bag or trash can, as you cannot lift bag up to empty. The unit also adds extra width to your mower so if your storage space...
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Love the Crastman 10.5 hp 33 in. commericail lawn mower. Cut moving time down by 30 mins.Use to take about 1hr & 15mins. to cut the grass now only about 45mins.. Order the Grass Catcher on line & received it in less then a week.That was great only thing wrong is that the catcher is such a pain in the --- to install I don't use it. They need to redesing this product so it can be easly installed & taken off to empty. Like on their other movers. Final thoughts buy the mower but DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THE CATCHER it's not wroth it.
Is there a place to select "zero" stars???
I absolutely love my 33" Craftsman mower. and I absuletly HATE the ($150.)bag catcher. Like other posts have said, it is a pain on the A?? to put on and off.
The zipper broker after only 20-25 uses, and now I discover that to replace the bag, I need to again pay (dumb me!) the $150 for all three pieces.
This is awful and Sears, who I have been loyal to for over 50 years should be ashamed of themselves.
The Craftsman 33' widecut mower is made by MTD. MTD recently purchased Troy-bilt which is where this mower derived from. Improvements made include a larger gas tank, larger front caster wheels and the blade spindles have grease fittings. Problems with this new unit include braided cables to engage the drive wheels and blade. Braided cables tend to fray and brake. On my Troy-bilt the engagement rods were adjustable steel rods. My Troy-bilt is used commercially and the steel rods are still in perfect condition.
The next problem with the Sears(MTD) is the handle. Although strong they mounted the...
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