Tell your story! What did you have before Cub Cadets?

[crossingcrown]

I am seeing the fever pop up every where. It just makes me think. Is it a better tractor, more ways to use a tractor. Or is it that the cub enthusiast just have addictive personalitys. These machines remind me of people with tattoos. Once you get one you gotta get another. I am just trying to understand this "fever phenomaly". Now, i am not talking about what tractor you had before your cubs. Did you have another hobby that took over everything like cubs? If your hobby was some other tractor, cool. But if not, what did you have?? For example. I had music. I was working on building up a studio kinda thing. Much like most wrenchers with their shop. I put everything into my music. Much of which i focused on drums. Now, it all goes to cubs. So... Will this thread get some stories???? Please share. I am nosey, and find this interesting. Thanks.

[darkminion_17]

I used to collect farts, but they would disappear in thin air.

[mudpatrol1]

Originally Posted by darkminion_17

I used to collect farts,but they would disappear in thin air.

[olds45512]

when i was a kid my dad would bring home a cub and put a paint job on it and use it for a month before selling it and repeating the process, when i was about 10 i was given a cub original by a family friend that i rode around like a go kart. after the o stopped running i got a 70 and did the same, i didn't have my own cub again till i was 20 but i didn't really have a need for it at the time so i sold it. when i moved to where i live now i needed a mower and i knew it would be a cub, i bought a 100 that came with a deck and plow and i ran it for a few years but sold it to pay for the restore on a 122. for a while i had the 122 and a 126 but i sold the 126 and bought a 108, i liked the 108 so much i sold my restored 122 to pay for restoring the 108. ive had a few hobbies here and there but i always go back to cubs.

[mudpatrol1]

well i never messed with tractors until i was 49,a couple of years later i have roughly a dozen tractors. i sold my 1200,which i was the 3rd owner and i do regret it. i have only 1 cub left in my fleet which is/was a 1250 which i am mating parts from a 1863 onto. i still have my 1964 buick riviera and 1987 corvette plus all my "junk" to spend my time and money on. i am not loyal to one brand. my oldest tractor is a 1968 sears 10 xl,my newest is a 1999 simplicity soveriegn . i buy what moves me i guess,and if its cheap or free its coming home with me,lol

[drglinski]

I've grown up with Cub Cadets. Dad had one before I was born. He used to prop me up on the seat and use it as a babysitter.





Dad still has it (125). I learned to mow and till a garden with this. Blew it up 4 times, but we rebuilt it. I used it two weeks ago actually. He brought home a cheap to him 782 about 17 years ago which he still has, and we used that to mow with too.

I've never used anything else. A few off brand mowers at friends' houses, but nothing as good as the IH Cadets.

I moved to my own house 4 years ago. The first year I pushed mowed and shoveled snow by hand. I found a good used 147 and that's been my go-to tractor since. It does everything (and then some) that I ask it to. A lot of people in my neighborhood have disposable cheapo mowers, but I'm sure mine will outlast theirs.



PS the red truck was my first truck. The farmall H on the right he still has and was the first "tractor" I learned to drive (I think. Might be a tie with his Super WD-9)

[CubDieselFan]

My first tractor was a 102 that my Dad bought when I was 12. He traded it when i was 17, for a new 1811. I have always used Cubs. My first was a 1050, I traded it in 1998 for my 1572.


I bought a used woods zero turn in the fall of 2010 and in the spring of 2011, I sold it. Never even mowed my yard with it. I mowed my father in laws a couple of times and was thinking what I could buy with that money. Went home and put up for sale on the Internet. Sold it the next weekend. My plan was to sell the 1572 and I could not do it. I started collecting Cubs and now I have 12.

[rocker582special]

I used to be into model trains. I had trains of various sizes, shapes, colors, ect. I sold off most of them but I still have my grandpas old train from 60-70s era. Hoping one day to restore it and set it up and to have it running. Then I started mowing with my uncle and he had JD mowers. That how I acquired this disease. Lol, but that's how I got into Cubs, my grandma had a 582special and I bought it when she sold her farm. I now have 4 Cubs.

[crossingcrown]

Cool pic's and story's. I am reading all the time about guys carting new/old cubs home. Many that have a fleet all ready. All the repairs, and wrenchin. Just kinda cool to see this kind of stuff too. Thanks again to all who share.

[ccguy]

I bought a Husqvarna YTH1542XP in 2002 to mow the lawn and collect (and mulch) leaves. But as a lawn tractor, it could not handle any other duties (along with poor build quality, inferior components and abysmal engineering). When we started heating our home using firewood in 2008, lugging fuel from our woods got old real quick. I remembered back to my youth visiting my grandfather in Kansas who farmed 1 & 1/2 sections who had a Cub 129 (he was a big Farmall guy) and remembered it was a beast of a machine. So I started researching Cubs and decided that I wanted a pre-1998 V-Twin that could really pull and haul. I restored a 1440, then the 1811. Don't know what's next...but it will be another Cub.