What did you do with your Cub Today?

[lowlyfzlucky]

I finished painting today!!! Reassembly will begin this weekend. Unfortunately, I'm really disappointed in the finish on the hood. So tomorrow I'm going to strip it down to bare metal this time and paint it again. Hopefully the results will be much better.

Originally Posted by lowlyfzlucky

I finished painting today!!! Reassembly will begin this weekend. Unfortunately, I'm really disappointed in the finish on the hood. So tomorrow I'm going to strip it down to bare metal this time and paint it again. Hopefully the results will be much better.

I haven't started on the hood yet, except for having a body shop reshape the nose as it was dented (crushed) to the point that I thought it was unfixable, but he did an awesome job!! Now I need a hood ornament as the one I got was broken. Being the biggest part(hood) I'm curious to see how my paint turns out. Are you using spray cans or pro sprayer?? I'll tell everyone what paint and colors I used when I'm done.

[ACecil]

Nice plow and disc, Adam! The disc looks cool, behind your 100.

[lowlyfzlucky]

Originally Posted by Sminkey

I haven't started on the hood yet, except for having a body shop reshape the nose as it was dented (crushed) to the point that I thought it was unfixable, but he did an awesome job!! Now I need a hood ornament as the one I got was broken. Being the biggest part(hood) I'm curious to see how my paint turns out. Are you using spray cans or pro sprayer?? I'll tell everyone what paint and colors I used when I'm done.

My brother works for a paint manufacturing company as their technical guru. Actually, the company that INVENTED the spray can. So long story short, they had the IH colors already. I asked him to add some extra hardener in my cans and that's what I'm using. I'll post pics of the cans with the tractor when completed next week. Acutally, it's great paint and I'm very happy with it. I just got lazy with prepping the hood and paid the price.

[mrcubcadet]

Originally Posted by IHinIN

Here's the plow and disc I bought from mrcubcadet. I can't wait to try them out. I need to find or make a coulter blade for the plow. Mrcubcadet let me borrow the one on it to get some dimensions but he needs it back since his other plow doesn't have one.

ACecil is right, that disc does look cool on your 100. I can't wait to see some action pics of it

[johncub7172]

Originally Posted by lowlyfzlucky

My brother works for a paint manufacturing company as their technical guru. Actually, the company that INVENTED the spray can. So long story short, they had the IH colors already. I asked him to add some extra hardener in my cans and that's what I'm using. I'll post pics of the cans with the tractor when completed next week. Acutally, it's great paint and I'm very happy with it. I just got lazy with prepping the hood and paid the price.

I got a factory paint job on the hood of my 72......with cc spraycan. Strip to metal,clean very good, then I used a oil base red primer. The trick starts here: spray, wet sand, about 3 times, then the same with the white. Imade do with what I had and it turned out factory! I can post picts. if you need.

[lowlyfzlucky]

Originally Posted by johncub7172

I got a factory paint job on the hood of my 72......with cc spraycan. Strip to metal,clean very good, then I used a oil base red primer. The trick starts here: spray, wet sand, about 3 times, then the same with the white. Imade do with what I had and it turned out factory! I can post picts. if you need.

You're absolutely right. It's funny how I never hear anyone talk about sanding the primer before painting. I just got lazy and didn't stip this ONE piece down to bare metal. What an idiot I am sometimes, especially on such a prominent part.

[Amigatec]

Well I was bush-hogging this morning, but got rained out.

Has anyone ever tried to use a tiller gear box on the back to run a 4' bush hog??

Take the pulley off and mount a drive shaft to it.

[JayBrd]

Originally Posted by Amigatec

Well I was bush-hogging this morning, but got rained out.

Has anyone ever tried to use a tiller gear box on the back to run a 4' bush hog??

Take the pulley off and mount a drive shaft to it.

I have been pondering this for the front of my 682. I have a 90 gear box on an old White motor corp GT that looks just like an IH one. I want to make a QA bracket and toss a small single blade deck of some sort up front for mowing my shooting lanes where we hunt.

I think the hard part would be the shaft itself, finding one strong enough to hold up to a ground hit without snapping

[Amigatec]

I guess another way to do it is to run a pulley and shaft under the tractor to the back and use a second pulley and shaft to reduce the speed down. I would make it a tow type bush hog.