How the Cub Cadet numbers work
 

I was wounding why IH/cub cadet use the numder 86 on the 86 cub cadet . I would think it would be 88 :bigthink:

If it were an 88 it'd have to be faster than all the other cubs made. (Nascar reference). Since it's only got an 8 horse, it's not likely, ergo the reason for 86.:biggrin2:

Yeah, I always wondered the same thing. But, none of the 7 and 8hp tractors followed suit in the number sequence. The 71, 72, 73, 86 all were outside of the standard deviation. The 71 should have been the 72. The 72 a 74. The 73 a 76. And the 86 an 88. Who knows why they did what they did. :bigthink:

And to add to that it's very interesting to me that during an era of fiberglass dashes and full fenders with padded seats they went back to the basics with the 71, 72, 73 with metal dash, flat steering wheel, pan seat, and no or round fenders, etc.

Cost perhaps? :bigthink:

Drugs...:beer2:

It's simple, years ago an Engineer for Cub cadet wondered how to drive people crazy in the future.... It worked!!!

Greg

New guy running the sticker machine lol

id be willing to bet that with the availability of larger engines there was less demand for 7hp tractors and therefore no need for an upgrade of the chassis. the other option i could see was ih wanted to offer a classic look tractor as part of there line up. it seems like the 7hp tractor were treated as there own line seperate from the other tractors until they were no longer available

My guess is that even back then Cub Cadet had to try to compete with cheaper brands so the 7hp and 8hp models were built to compete with them. IH used up all the leftover parts on the cheaper tractors and used the new style stuff on the more expensive 'flagship' models. That's just my guess.

All the above suggestions sound pretty feasible.

I pictured a little different scenario that played out something like...

YOU ORDERED DECALS THAT SAID WHAT??? They were supposed to say 72 NOT 71!

Junior, if if if your Mother didn't own controlling stock in this company, I'D FIRE YOUR A$$ RIGHT NOW!!!