Learned A Hard Lesson
 

I am the proud owner second owner of a '83 782 and an 80 that I do my best ot take good care of. I had done some maintenance on the 782 about a month ago on the 782 and gave the kids a ride in the driveway. As I was putting things away, and closing up the shop, I noticed my 2 yr old pracitcing his "driving" on the 782. I didn't think anything about it and grabbed him and we went inside.

Well, I went out to the shop this morning to grab a few things and noticed I had left the key in the ignition. Not only that, but it was turned on, which just about freaked me out. Much to my dismay, I looked at the hour meter and it read nearly 200 hrs more than when I last ran the machine a month ago after performing the maintenance and giving the boys a ride. Needless to say, I wanted to cry.

If you go in the shop now, all the keys are hung up in a high spot where my 5, 2, and 11 month old will not be able to access them. I should have known better and given it better thought, but consider the lesson learned. :bash2:

I still love my kids more than life itself and if a little pain and tears shed for daddy get/keep my little men interested in Cub Cadets, then it is all worth it. :)

Sorry to hear that Aaron! Kids will be kids though!

Along similar lines, I have an old 210 Deere I used for 15 Years or so before acquiring my Cub.
The key had a small fob of sorts from some dealer.
Several times I would find the key missing from the ignition and lying on the tunnel cover or on the dirt floor in the barn or on the deck.
I was @ my whit’s end trying to figure out how that was happening as no one was ever around!
There were times I really believed it was possessed by evil trolls!!
Long story short, one day I went out and saw one of my many barn cats ( who thought the seat was made for them to sleep on) batting the key fob with her paw on the barn floor, as if it were playing with a mouse.
To this day, a short piece bailing twine insures that the key is always no more than 6” from the ignition switch.

Cats will be cats!
CaptMax

About 17 years ago my son was out in the garden shed with me cleaning off the new cub cadet tractor that we had just got, the phone rang, it was my mother asking me to bring the baby (my son), she was going to take him to the play ground. Well, I turned my back on him for a second to reach in the house and answer the phone, I could see him in the shed moving around and could not hear anything over the radio.
Well I hung up the phone and told him to come up to the house taht we are going to Mom Mom's house....he came up and I took him over and dropped him off.

Well when I got back home a few minutes later I went back down to the shed to finish what I was doing and low and behold there were a dozen 2 inch holes drilled in my brand new Cub seat with a hole saw that was on a cordless drill........I was sick...........got over it......very, very funny now but not then.

That Event will be shared between you two, when all else is forgotten.
My son's are grey haired now, and we still laugh about things they did as "pups"
----it just wasn't funny then Ha,LOL!

I love to hear stories that other people have gone through. And to think this is just the first of many I will experience with 3 boys...haha. I am just thankful and blessed not only are my boys healthy enough to be out in the shop with me, but that they WANT to be out with me instead of behind some gaming system in the house. I think they will learn more being out with me than any gaming system can teach them. :BangPC:

I think it would be a lot of fun to strat a thread where we all can post our "experiences" our kids have given us in relation to our Cadet machines. I think, no I know I would enjoy reading all of them. Who knows, maybe they could be written in book form...haha

Thank you all and have a great day!

Hey Aaron, I can feel your pain brother.

My grandson lives with us and he is a clone of my son and is into everything. I can take my keys out of the ignition and he can still find them sometimes and put them back in the ignition. Many times I have had that problem as well as, the hitch pin being missing from the back, go to take off with a trailer and it drops, gas cap missing.......I can only hope that he hasn't give me and "additives" to my fuel. Got to keep a close eye on him but I would love nothing more than to have him out in the garage with me working on this stuff.

When i was a kid I noticed that both cub cadets (1450, lowboy) needed fuel so I'd figure I would help out and fuel both of them full with water. I got my rear end beat for that.

My brother and I did that to my dads alfa romeo when we were kids, it never seemed to run right after that.