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    Is there a bucket attachment for the 169?

    Greg - I feel your pain removing tree debris. I had a brush pile the astronauts could see from space, it just kept growing bigger and bigger. Wife called around and found a 16 ft hyd dump trailer at a reasonable daily rate. We picked it up Friday, the tailgate was buggered up, replaced it with...
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    Is there a bucket attachment for the 169?

    Greg - I agree, I watched the Johnny Bucket video, did you see the stack of pallets the one guy stacked up to drive up so he could dump stuff in his Agri-Fab cart? Yeah, there's NOTHING that could go wrong there!?! Drive off the edge of the pallets and your garden tractor does a nose drive...
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    New 125 owner

    Bryan, welcome to IH Cub Cadet.com. there's hundreds of years of experience with these great little tractors amongst the members here. My CC history started the spring of 1963 on a brand new Original which was traded spring of 1965 for the #70 sitting out in the shop. The #72 with it I bought...
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    Coil is hot

    Dad gave me three supposedly O-K Kohler coils about 18 years ago, He was cleaning up his shop for his last auction. They sat on my workbench for a year or two till one day I'm mowing my yard with my vacuum unit, it's ignition on the K181 runs off the '72's battery. And over the course of the...
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    The biggest Cub Cadet garden tractor?

    Just tallied up how many times I mowed with the 982 between 2010 and 2015, I deleted the couple times I mowed with the 70 & 72, 61 times in 6 years. Typically took 4-1/2 hours to mow the 2-3/10's acres, lots and lots of trimming! So saying I put 4-1/2 hours on each mowing that Ccounts for 275 of...
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    I scored a nice IH lapel pin at auction. Any ideas how these were acquired originally?

    Between the two Quad-City plants I had a total of about 5 years service with IH between the two plants. I was SO SO far from any kind of service award, even after my last IH lay-off I still did work for FARMALL, hauling "STUFF" IN-BOUND, One afternoon running a skid of sample parts from FARMALL...
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    Wheel wwights

    I have to agree, weight is weight, more is better than not enough, every one of my Cub Cadets has 2, 3 or 4 weights per wheel. The first set of weights I bought look exactly like the Deere 42# weights, I bought them for 5 Dollars for the pair about 1970 at a farm auction, they had a half inch...
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    The biggest Cub Cadet garden tractor?

    If you REALLY want a large garden tractor, I'd look for a 5288 or 5488 IH. Yes, they're full size tractors, all came with cabs, most had FWA, all had DT-466 Diesels, 5488 was intercooled, , Synchro-Tri-Six Transmissions with most speed changes "shift on the go" They were what IH tried to copy...
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    Garden Prep

    DAVE - The last year Dad farmed I'd been able to fall plow everything except 3 acres. Our ground had a rather high percentage of clay in it with all the headaches that brings. But I'd go out with our BIG tractor and the disk and break up the crust and Dad would follow me out with my Super H with...
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    Parts Wanted needed.108 lift rod

    My 129 had lived a really brutal life before I got it, lots of stuf could getf had been cobbled up to keep it mowing, Dad found out the prior owner ran a lawn service mowing quite a few lawns every day. Sure, wouldn't EVERYBODY use a 20 year old Cub Cadet if you were going to mow 6, maybe 8, or...
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    129 vs. 2082

    I had a home-made gas tank on my 129, it had a brutal life before I got it. Think my tank held around 1-1/2 gallons. I could mow my 2-3/10ths acres on 2 tanks of gas. The 982 had a 4 gallon tank, same 2-3/10 acre yard still took 2 tanks but had a gallon left from the 2nd one. The deck was so...
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    129 vs. 2082

    I had a 129 with 44 inch deck for 10-12 years. It was actually good on gas for how much ground it could cover. And with the hydro I'd creep into tall weeds and brush and mow places you wouldn't think a lawn mower would go. You would think my 982 and 50C deck would be a bigger version of the 129...
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    original tires for #2 cart

    Actually, the Original Good Year tires on several of my Cub Cadets only lasted 30, 40, or 5!0 years until the dry cracked and blew out. But I have a FIRESTONE ALL Traction Field and Road in 13.6x38 6 ply that's 60 years old that looks great, and as a tire on a loader tractor it was frequently...
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    Ignition condenser.

    The 2014 Cub Cadet TANK LZ54 zero turn I bought April of 2014 has held up really well. I do have an idler pulley on the deck chirping at me the last half of last summer with 250 hours on the machine. No broken belts, replaced the primary air filter 3 times in 6 years, oil & filter change before...
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    Beat to death discussion.. Tires

    JON - The HDAP tire Tom posted I've seen good reviews on other garden tractor forums about them. Kind of a winter tire like a Blizzak for good Traction without tire chains. Anything I own I have chains for keep them on year-round. And my concrete driveway sure takes a toll on them. A salvage...
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    how many is too many ?

    My recond is SIX, my 72, 129, and a 70 that Dad bought new in 1965, and I stored a full trailer & truck load for Wyatt for several months, plus his 169, '73, and I think it was a 72 that later became his Plow Special. Those were the " Good Ole Day's of Cubbing", Wyatt would come out, we'd work...
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    782D hydro pump paint color

    Plow Day #2 at the Blunier's was severely packed ground, was about like plowing up Blacktop, lots of high HP hydro tractors got the Hy-Tran so hot it was boiling over after plowing one round. My #72 gear drive was only 10 hp in those days, I hauled Ken Updike & his 782 to that PD and he got my...
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    Beat to death discussion.. Tires

    Best brand of innertubes, I doubt anybody in the US makes small tubes anymore. For large rear ag tractors a FIRESTONE radial rated tube has been the best since about 1979 when I used to buy 30 to 50 tubes at a time at FARMALL. I bought two for myself about 10 -12 years ago with no problems in...
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    torque wrench recommendations

    I think Matt G and all the others echoing his advice are correct. I have a Craftsman 3/8" bending beam wrench for small engine assembly, and a Craftsman 1/2" Digitork 0 to 250 foot pound wrench for big bolts the most important things on the click stop are to reset to zero when done, and...
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    Beat to death discussion.. Tires

    23 degree FIRESTONE AG tires. They brand their tires as " Gum dipped" and I suspect that protects their tires from sunlight, ozone and premature aging. I 'very got a 50 year old Firestone on the M out in the shop hat still looks great.
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