Smart gear. Perfect lawns.
Edgers, aerators, spreaders and sweepers — broken down by weight, blade depth, maintenance burden and what actually goes wrong. No filler, no fake test rigs, no ten paragraphs before the answer.
Four tools cover a quarter-acre lawn: a 40V 19-inch cordless mower, a 650 CFM class cordless blower for cleanup, a cordless stick edger for borders, and a manual spike or core aerator once a year. Buy them on one battery platform and you buy the batteries once.
Under a third of an acre, a 40V 19-inch cordless mower beats gas on noise, storage and upkeep. Our picks by deck size, runtime and battery platform.
Blade spinning slow on a TB554 or MTD walk-behind edger? The drive belt is nearly always the cause. Part number, tension spec, and the 30-minute swap.
Cordless, corded and gas edgers tested for weight, blade depth, cut quality and how much maintenance they really demand.
Compaction, clay, thatch and leveling. The unglamorous work underneath every lawn that actually looks good.
Drop and broadcast spreaders, calibration, clog fixes and getting fertilizer down without burning your lawn.
Leaf blowers, lawn sweepers and power brushes — including what they do to paver joints and polymeric sand.
The Cub Cadet 50 inch deck belt is a 1/2 x 134 inch aramid-cord belt, part 954-04044A. Fitment for XT1, XT2 and RZT decks plus the routing walkthrough.
Craftsman 42–46 inch decks use the 137153 belt at 1/2 x 83 inches. How to confirm it fits your model, and the 30-minute replacement walkthrough.
Never measure a stretched belt. Find your model number, read the two numbers that matter, and use the part-number table to order the belt that fits first try.