Well, I started to congratulate him for choosing the right forum, but when I went to Parts Lookup, the 482 came up under Garden Tractors, which was not where I expected to find it. As you can see from my posting below, I revised my classification in order to abide by MTD's classification of the 482 as a Garden Tractor.
So, yes, "I missed that part" which gives the forum's criteria for its Lawn Tractor classification: "pretty much if it has a B&S and a belt" and which is posted at the head of the Lawn Tractor forum section.
I THOUGHT I was checking my facts and getting them straight by checking to see how MTD classifies their own tractors, but I guess they didn't check with you first.
Perhaps we ought to emend the heading of the section to read something like, "The IH Cub Cadet Forum classifies the IH Models 76, 80, 81, 111, 1100 and 182 thru 482, pretty much if it has a B&S and a belt, as a Lawn Tractor, even though the manufacturer may classify them otherwise."
Or we could communicate to MTD what we think of their classifying the 1100 and the 482 as Garden Tractors, while the others on the forum's list (Models 76, 80, 81, 111, 1110, 182, 282, and 382) are all listed as Lawn Tractors.
I'm seriously not trying to mislead anyone, and I take your correction to heart. So, in the future, although I will direct new forum members to Parts Lookup, I will refrain from directing them to a Forum section.
But, given the fact that your classification of Lawn Tractors differs from MTD's, it begs the question of what their classification criteria are.
For instance, what is the difference between a Model 1100 (Garden Tractor per MTD; only the motor is depicted in Parts Lookup) and a Model 1110 (Lawn Tractor per MTD; actually a Push Mower is depicted on Parts Lookup)?
