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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dfrisk" data-source="post: 89665" data-attributes="member: 2071">ANDREW - MATT is exactly correct, IH used the same decks for a lot of years, and MTD kept using them. Mostly because IH had such a quick & easy method of attaching them to the tractor.   IMHO, the Simplicity decks mow better, but I suspect it would take a lot of work to get one workng under a CC. The design of the CC rearend takes a large amount of room away from where the deck would live. I think the later 44" & 50" decks mow better than earlier decks. And replacement deck skins were still avail. for them just a few yrs ago.      A lot of us here take things like rusted deck housings for granted. We have welders & equipment to patch them up and keep them running. That's the way My DAD farmed for forty years, patching up old worn out equipment and building/modifying new equipment to work better.  The hard part comes when we have to buy replacement parts like bearings, shafts, & spindle housings.  Last sprint I spent $170 to replace ONE worn spindle on my 50" deck on my 982. I needed the sealed unit bearing & shaft and BOTH parts to the bearing housing, even got a new woodruff key for the drive pulley. Can you say "OUCH!"?</blockquote>

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