Not that many 4 stroke Lawn-Boys around. You got a great deal on that one.

thanks, i was happy to find it has a B&S engine. first mower i've owned that has that goofy wheel, it'll take a little getting used to.

Is that a steel deck?

This is like my find the other week. I ride 10 miles to\from the office and saw the Toro in the alley facing the trail. I rode over and i was like Homer Simpson debating between a beer and $100, being i was on a bike being my chain was not long enough then i noticed Hmmm.... big bushes... so i shoved in in the bushes and riding home it was still there. I drove over and @ 11pm and it was still there. I laughed because it was next to a main street along with the bike trail, and people likely thought it was just some garbage in the bushes.

It has elec start, and personal pace. Nice "cruise control".

hey upup, yeah this has a steel deck. i'm new at this computer world, been online for 4yrs. had no idea what was going on around me, 50 yrs old and didn't know what craigslist was! heard people mention it. i'm still amazed at what some folks will throw out.

Nice find. You can use any of the discharge cover plates in addition to your bagging chute. The two you probably would want are the side discharge plate and the mulching plate. I guess it takes the same blade that came on all the offset-wheel decks, the standard LB 'Tri-Cut' 21" blade.

The offset wheel is for helping to prevent scalping on irregular surfaces plus it places the discharge port at the optimum place for maximum efficiency for discharging and vacuum when bagging. The bags are huge and you'll find as long as the blade and everything else is optimal it will deliver some of the best bagging you've ever seen.

Looks like it has Toro 'Variable Speed' which is the best and simplest drive system going. The belts last for generations. You 'feather' the bail for slower mowing or squeeze it to the handle for max speed, or anywhere in-between. The belt is designed to constantly slip and is the same type used in the 'Personal Pace' drive.

Here are my two 4-cycle LBs, a 2004 10684 'Insight' w/195cc Tecumseh and Variable Speed, and a 2007 22271 'Insight' aluminum-deck commercial w/190cc Honda GSV commercial engine and Variable Speed.

nice looking lawn boy's, looks like you like to keepem clean. this 1 didn't come with any other attachments. i removed the bagging chute, one thing i noticed are there are a lot of crevasses where grass can get caught up in, recipe for rust? i ran across 1 of those type trannys on a john deere, simple, effective and cheap to repair, not a lot of expensive gears!

Thanks, but that picture was when they were new! Still, I do wash them frequently but am behind the curve on that this year. Does yours have grease fittings on the rear wheel adjuster/clutch housing? If you really like it and decide to keep it a long time, you could clean and re-grease the 'tranny' box (only has a simple gearset to change the axis of rotation, like a car rear end) and you might have to clean and grease the axle-end spur gears and ratchets once a year plus grease the clutch housing if it has a fitting. I've had two steel-deck offset-wheel LBs and didn't have a problem with grass getting trapped or the deck rusting. If you continue to bag you probably won't either. If you start mulching you can get a build-up in any mower if the grass is too moist.

I found an excellent synthetic oil for older mowers - Castrol 'Edge' 10W-30 Synthetic for 'High Mileage' engines. I've used it on two so far and they both have done great with it - one, a B&S 'Quantum' that had been abused and a 1989 Homelite-Jacobsen with B&S 3.5 HP that is still running. Neither one smokes or leaks and they seem to run 'easier' and smoother. In my two mowers I use the regular version of Castrol 'Edge' 10W-30 Synthetic since they're not really 'High-Mileage' even though they've been around awhile. I'll be worn out a long time before these mowers will. :)

hi, i went out and took another look at the deck, don't like questioning engineer's. turns out it the shield that's installed for bagging, it's plastic but there were gobs of grass behind it and the deck. the rear adjuster do have zerks. i appreciate the recommendation on oil. i know i'm probably wrong but i don't use fancy oil in my car, i do use castrol high mileage 10-40 but not the synthetic. my mowers, it's oil lol.

when i got online and found craigslist, i found i could go to a garage/estate sale just about everyday! oil is 1 thing that i pickup. most of the time thats in the pile that the people running the sale worry about having to dispose of so it's usually cheap or free. i found 2 cases of mobile one 10-40 at a sale and paid 10.00, what a deal!

Yeah, changing it is the key, not so much the oil, but I'm an oil fanatic. :) But hey, my mowers last forever.

Amsoil Synthetic 10-40 for my New Toro Commercial Mower . When you spend the xtra for a quality engine only the Best Oil !

hey all, so i went out and used the lawn boy for the first time. i brought with me to use at a friends place. did some pruning before mowing. rhodies, boxwoods and a camellia bush. usually, what i do is do my trimming, rake cuttings into the grass, pick up the majority of the bigger crap and vacuum the rest up with the mower. sadly, the lawn boy did a terrible job, left a lot of debris behind. cuts grass ok, that bag is a PITA and the off set wheel makes moving it around kinda tricky. should of brought the honda.

Does it have the correct blade in good condition? Is it sharp? Is the deck clean? Is it possible the discharge chute is obstructed? This deck is known as a good bagger so I would think there's a problem.

yeah, blades good, there wasn't anything clogging anything. it cut and bagged good, just didn't suck the shrub clippings up like i would have hoped. the bag on this thing is a bit of a pain to empty, maybe there's a trick? reinstalling it is also trickier than it should be.

Ensure u have a proper mulching blade with airfoil at proper pitch and length !

what?

Mulchiing blades not only lift and cut grass finer but their lift design also inhance the vacuum effect your looking for . I just finished testing my New Toro Commercial Kawasaki Kai with its standard blade and a new gator mulching blade . I was very surprised how much better the Oregon gator blade bagged vs the standard blade . The bag was fuller with much smaller density cuttings . I used standard mulching blades on my Old Lawnboys for yrs even when bagging .

i'm familiar with mulching blades. my gripe was with the stuff that should have been bagged but wasn't.

You said what ? Do I have to draw you a picture ! Good mulching blade will bag schrub clippings , a standard blade will not , is that clear enough... sheesh !

like i said earlier, should have used the honda.

You seem to be missing the point , the Lawn Boy Silver with the 6 hp Series Engine with proper mulching blade will suck the hub caps off your automobile from 5 ' . However the original blade design from the factory was a hybrid 3 system blade which was a compromise . Upon reviewing your pic , the blade is standard and worn due for change out . Install a proper quality mulching blade and it will out bag or mulch any Honda on the market . The venturi design bagging snorkel ( black plastic unit ) is designed narrow then wider back to narrow to increase flow speed and volume to the bag . As Sax said one of the best designed Lawn boy 4 cycles prior to Toro shutting down the line . There is definitely something not quite right on this blade or deck (fouled) if it will not clean up a simple scrub clippings . If you can,t figure it out send it North here ! lol.

300.. . On the back of the mowers deck to the right of the belt and transaxle cover, You should find a sticker with the model such as 10335, 10356 etc and a serial number. Post that information if you can.. I have 9 Lawn Boy silver series and they all have either DuraForce 2 strokes or Tecumseh engines.. I bought a new old stock OEM rear bagging system like you have and it alone cost me $110 this Spring.. I stopped buying new Lawn Boy mowers after Toro turned them into garbage by painting their mowers green. I can not tell if yours still has the mulching fan or not (better to bag without them) I have removed all of mine except for the one I mulch leaves with. If you were double lucky you would have gotten a mulch plug (green) that covers the discharge chute and the discharge plug (black) that lets it side discharge... Keep the blade sharp and you will have one of the best cutting mowers ever made. Nothing I have saw yet can cut like an off set wheeled Lawn Boy.. I tell people that I would spend a $1000 to keep one running before I bought anything in its class on the market today.. If you plan to keep it for a long time I would suggest investing in some metal ball bearing wheels. Both front and rear. A tea spoon of 90 weight oil each season will keep them rolling smooth for years.

hey MM, this 1 is a 10318. didn't come with any accessories (mulch plug). it does have the X shaped piece above the blade. this is my first experience with lawn boys. i seemed to have struck a nerve when i mentioned i wasn't impressed with it's not bagging some clipping's i left after some pruning i did. i found that off set wheel a little tricky, the house i brought it to had a couple levels i had to navigate and because i wasn't paying attention the mower got hung up a couple times lol. before picking this 1 up i bought a mid 80's 2 stroke (4262), pic's in "estate sale P/U", i don't come across 2 cycles very often.

Hey Mule absolutely right within the offset wheeled Lawn boys . Unfortunately this Model is the 4 Cycle Steel Deck Silver Series . Otherwise a teaspoon of Caster would have it purring . P.S. Not a fan blade they were a stacked 4 blade configuration , that as you mention were the best mulchers ever !

Mule owned numerous LB , D300 & D600 . Had two Dura-force # 10323 loved the engine only the plastic carb on the 2nd Duraforce unit sucked . I eventually had to rejet it to smooth out the idle and midrange power . The Silver Series 4 cycles were stout on power also . However I much preferred the commercial grade 2 strokes with cast aluminium decks and staggered wheel configuration , along with the burble of that Klotz R Castor running through a well tuned 2- Stroke Dura-force !