Couple of Questions....

JayBrd · #1 02-10-2010, 05:14 PM

I'm debating on getting a second cub, but would like it to be in the upper H.P. range (14hp or up) and prefer no CCC's if I can help it..

I am kind of up in the air on it, but would like to try and find a 147 for that ugly cool look, but not sure. I want it for a straight up work tractor, no mowing. input?????????????

Yeah, I am wimping out on using my "O" :biggrin2.gif:

wshytle · #2 02-10-2010, 06:13 PM

First of all, there's no such thing as an "ugly" cub. Any of the 14 horse cubs should do about anything you want. Craigslist is a main source anymore and if you don't mind driving you'll find about any cub available. As far as the upper horse cubs you have the previously mentioned 147, 149, and the 1450. There's also the 169 and the 1650 cubs which are a little bit harder to find and have 16 horses under the hood.

Get ready to get bitten by the bug. Once you have a herd started you'll just be looking for the fourth, fifth, and so on.

Good luck!

Yosemite Sam · #3 02-10-2010, 06:14 PM

Honestly, I don't think the 1X6/7 Cubs look bad... I think the 1X4/5's are the UGLY ones! Sorry 1X4/5 guys.

It really depends on what you want to do with it... If you're gonna be pulling heavy loads with it all the time, I'd prefer a gear drive. If you're wanting to till garden and push snow, I'd rather use a hydro...

But none of that really matters, I'm not exactly sure where the point of no return is, but if you get yourself a second Cub Cadet, the third won't be very far behind, then you'll soon find yourself needing a bigger building to keep/work on them in. Before you know it you'll have more than 25 or 6 of them, four of them will be dedicated snow machines, one will have a tiller on the back, 5 or six of them will have mower decks, 1 won't have any attachments, it will be the one that you "run" over to your Brothers house on and go to the mailbox on, 1 will have the box blade on it, one will have a moldboard plow on it that NEVER gets used, one will have a disk on the back and yet another will have the 60" drag behind mower hooked on the back so you can cut nearly nine feet of grass in one pass, and the other dozen or so will be setting in the back rows waiting for different attachments to come along that they can't do without... and there won't be room in that new building to do any work because it will be wall to wall Cub Cadets.

Depending on your needs, I'd be looking for a 149, very simple, extremely durable, nice looking, good "all around" unit, but what do I know???

You do also realize that the "K" series Kohler engines are a lot different that the engines that come on equipment today... A 12HP K-301 Kohler has more raw power than a 20 HP engine that you buy these days.

JayBrd · #4 02-10-2010, 07:45 PM

I do not think the 147 front end is ugly in a bad way... It just took me a bit of a while to get used to it, now I think it's a bit different if not sexy in it's own way.

Craig's list in this area is like flea bay now, 100 million dollars for a basket case. There is a 147 posted now for 2300, granted it has plow, tiller, rear blade.

Aroostook · #5 02-10-2010, 08:04 PM

My money would go towards a 149, or a 129 if it had the hydraulic lift. That hydraulic lift is just SO easy to get accustomed to! I'll admit that I don't like it much for mowing, but that's just because I haven't yet got that cussed height adjustment stop system to stay in place!

Mak90 · #6 02-10-2010, 08:28 PM

lol good reading Yosemite Sam, sad part we all know its the truth

i know for myself it took me awhile to get used to the looks of different cc's

i dont know all the model numbers now like you all toss them about, but i am learning. i can spot a cc sitting in a wood line 1000 feet from the road now lol

and of course the wife says "just keep driving"

ihnick · #7 02-10-2010, 09:24 PM

ive got a 129, 169 and 1650. if i were you i would look for a 149 also. if you ask me the manual pto clutch and starter generator are nicer then the electric clutch and starter on the quiet lines. another opinion of mine is i like the solid mount motor. otherwise i know a guy that might have a 147. i'll see if i can get him to post about it. hes in central MN

Yosemite Sam · #8 02-21-2010, 01:03 AM

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Originally Posted by JayBrd

I do not think the 147 front end is ugly in a bad way...

Not ugly in a bad way... Does that mean that it is ugly in a good way???

JayBrd · #9 02-21-2010, 01:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yosemite Sam

Not ugly in a bad way... Does that mean that it is ugly in a good way???

:biggrin2.gif:

When I first saw that style nose, I thought what were they thinking... Now after messing around , looking (drewling) they are that kind of I gotta have one ugly..

JayBrd · #10 02-24-2010, 06:07 PM

Going to look at a 682 tonight or tomorrow... has series 2 in it, but the hours are a bit high. We'll see what it's like and how nuts his price will be..

It's a '81 so that whole first (my CCO) and last model year thing would be cool...