[gcbailey]

I knew Cyrus McCormick's great, great, great, great grandson who was a lead design engineer at IH back in the 50's. He ended up inventing the do-hickey that connects crank shaft to the left brake band. Anyways, he sold and early prototype (pre-cubbette) to my 2nd grade teacher's first wife's husband. Well this man didn't have a clue what to do with it since it didn't have a mowing deck and 5 wheels. He sold it to a man down in southern WV who raised tame llamas for nature trails. One day one of the llamas kicked the prototype and the man decided to get rid of it. I happened to be driving by that way and dickered around with him on the price and ended up having him give me about $600 and dinner to take it off his hands. I guess I've been around cubs for about 10 minutes now, so I'm pretty hard core old school..