Shocked I found these locally

[cooperino]

So I meant to order blades for the 126 I picked up a few weeks ago. I decided to give my local mower guy a try. Its a small town owner operator type of place. I found the part numbers I needed here In OCC and wrote them down. Walked into the parts area of the place. Younger guy "maybe late 20'S" greeted me. I told him I was looking for some blades and I had OEM part numbers. He still insisted make and model of the tractor . I tell him its a IH cub cadet 126 and got a real funny look from him and he says WOW.. Thats OLD. Lets try your part numbers he says with a sound in his voice like he was already certain he would not be able to find the number or for that matter the blades. He pulled out a Rotary brand cross ref book and went to the cub page.. Boom! found the short and long blade in the book in seconds.. Looked in his computer.. WOW he says again. I have 4 of the short one and 2 of the long one. I said that makes sense.. 2 sets! Well. I only purchased one set from him as I figure her will most likely never sell the other set unless I come buy it LOL. So the amazing part.. The price was really great. 11" blades 10 bucks each and 17 bucks for the center blade! Guess the price in computer was most likely as old as the blades LOL.