Great for large yards November 06, 2011

Great for large yards. Small turning radius. Easy to start.

My PYT 9000 looks great but has lots of disappointing problems August 19, 2010

I purchased the PYT 9000 Craftsman Professional Lawn Tractor to replace a 12 year old craftsman tractor that needed a lot of work. To begin with, the first time I tried to start this tractor it took at least 2 minutes to start. I found out that the throttle cable was not adjusted correctly and the choke did not work. I adjusted the cable and fixed the problem.

The hood bounces all over the place while mowing and the seat cutoff switch is too sensitive. If you choose to purchase this tractor please buy wheel weights for traction. I have a small hill in my yard. I can't go up it because of wheel spins. Problems my 12 year old Craftsman tractor did not have.

On the other hand the power is good, transmission and mowing is great. when I work out the wheel spin, the hood bounce and the seat switch problems I hope I stop missing my old tractor

My PYT 9000 doesn't move & three weeks for a service call? August 17, 2010

We purchased our PYT 9000 Memorial Day weekend at our local Sears Hometown Store. It was delivered on June 6th. Although this tractor is very thirsty I like the power and the shortl turning radius. We have about 2 1/2 acres of bumpy, hilly ground to mow. HOWEVER on August 7th with just 10.9 hours of running time the tractor stopped and wouldn't go forward or backwards. I opened the hydostatic relief valve and my wife and I pushed it up the hill and back to the house.

On August 9th I went back to Sears and asked for some help. The people there called for service and they were advised the earliest anyone could look at my new $2,000 tractor that wouldn't move was 22 days- on August 31st.On top of that they can't even tell me what time anyone will actually show up. They gave me a 4-hour 'window' of between 8:00 a.m. and noon. ('Nothing like taking 4 unpaid hours off from work to wait on someone.)

We bought the PYT 9000 to replace our 12-year old Craftsman that was on it's last legs. This tractor had (we thought) everything we wanted. It's bad enough it's now immobile and I'm having to cut 2 1/2 acres with a push mower but a three-week wait to get the thing even looked at is nuts. I can't imagine how long it will take in case they need parts to fix it.

Very nice tractor. October 03, 2009

We bought this tractor to take care of our lawn of about 1.25 acres.  It arrived a little late, delivery guys were having a bad day but they did call multiple times to explain being late and when they'd be here.  After a very quick "this is your tractor" monologue from the delivery man and they were off, trying to get done for the day.  I looked the rig over, broke out the manual and checked the tire pressures and lowered them all.  After checking the oil, general bolt inspection and checking the deck for level, which it was, I added fresh gas and it fired right up.  It was kind of late in the day by then, like about 4PM, so I didn't get to mow the whole lawn that day.  Snce then I've mowed every week for the last three weeks and the tractor has performed very well.  Our lawn is more weeds than grass, but after its cut it looks very good.  Cutting height is very consistent even though the ground isn't all that level and even.  It does tend to "spin" the tires when making tight turns on a grade, like when cutting around a tree trunk, but overall it does perform quite well.  Gas consumption seems to be on the order of under a gallon to mow the whole lawn, which doesn't seem too bad at all.  My neighbor has a JD 145 and, so far, I think the 9000 is superior.