Are you "old school" Cub?

[Berwil]

I feel like a wolf in sheep's clothing, I don't have much cub seat time. My dad had a mowing business when I was growing up and I started mowing when I was 7; I logged thousands of hrs on greene tractors. I bought a house in 2006 and needed a mower, after seeing the prices of greene tractors, I talked to my dad and he reminded me that my grandfather had cub cadets. I don't remember much of him because he passed when I was 5, but I do remember that silver hydro handle on the left side of the dash on his 105. I know exactly where that tractor is in Iowa still in use, I will be out to pick it up one of these days. Until then I have my "O" and 1450.

[chadrisum]

As a grandson/son of an IH dealership owner I've litterally have grown up on cub cadets and there big brothers for the last 36 years. I've probally have had some of the most diversified "seat" time as I had gotten to drive such a variety over the years. To come to think about it we never actually "owned" per say a cub cadet while we had the dealership. What ever trade ins we had was our mower and I would mow the small amount of grass at the implement dealership and then drive it over a mile to home and mow. That was the "cool" thing to do when your a young kid was to drive on the city streets. The only down fall was getting attatched to a tractor only to have it sold. One in particular was model 100 with ag dually's with a turned up muffler with the rain cap on it. Boy when your a little kid that was one awsome tractor then to only get it sold on you.

[athomas]

I started mowing for a neighbor when I was ten years old, that tractor was an original 61 or 62 model year, that was about 1965. Later in the 60's we got a 105 and I mowed and plowed snow for about 30 years with it. Currently I use a 109 for mowing and snow plowing, I have a 108 with a Danco loader and am in the process of restoring a 125 , I'll be 58 in a few days so that gets me about 48 years seat time on one cub or another ! Wouldn't want to do it any other way !

[jdroison]

never had a rider growing up as we mowed around the farm house with a 18" lawnboy. I was aways interested in how things worked as a kid and when I was about 8 dad came home to find me on the porch with the lawnboy tore down about as far as you could. by the time he had chores done I had i back together and it ran. this got me into small engine work in my teens and I drove my first cub "0" when a customer asked me to rering the engine for him. I loved driving that cub and a couple years later bought a 102. I got a job mowing the local drive inn theater for 3 summers, it took 8 hours to cut it with the 102. the third year I got a 147 and we cut with both of them. life got in the way and they got parked and not run for several years. then about 4 years ago a friend gave me a 2166 that had had a hard life. I mowed with it 1 year and cought the cub fever again and puchased a 1811, I avaerage about 100 hours a year on it. this spring I got a basket case 1872 and have it about 75% done. this along with all the hours I have put in on the farm with our M farmall and 2 farmall Regulars. still use a Regular to cultivate our sweet corn patch.

[Jumper]

Originally Posted by Merk

IH Cub Cadet 71s were produce between 1965 to 1967.

Sorry, it was a long time ago, I should of checked for sure.

[Sam Mac]

Originally Posted by jdroison

never had a rider growing up as we mowed around the farm house with a 18" lawnboy. I was aways interested in how things worked as a kid and when I was about 8 dad came home to find me on the porch with the lawnboy tore down about as far as you could.

And I thought I was the only one that did that. My Dad took one look at me and said "You better be able to put that back together" That one almost went bad.

[Donovan M.]

I have been mowing with my 100 since i was able to walk. Love that tractor I grew up on it, so will my kids.