Archive through January 20, 2014

[sblunier]

V-61 5 ribs!!!!!!

 

[jclazar]

Mike, I think those tri rib are nice, as every American muscle tractor in America has been sporting them. With a IH Cub Cadet, you know you have THEE muscle garden tractor! True, the idea of clearing snow is to take as much snow in a single pass as possible. In most cases however, of my experience, when the tractor operator has the IH blade full-tilt, and pushing a heavy bite is when I have determined tractor shifting. I have those wide, like a lot of people do, multi rib floatation tires on my '67 IH, and all in all, these tires have not been bad as to not complete the task for me. Maybe its their larger surface area? That is until I ever experience another tire.

Logically speaking, when you look at how a old-time rail-runner sled performs on hard pack ice and snow, looking at this tri-type, I imagine more tractor shifting.

 

[mpatterson]

I was going to go with the V's but to be honest, I heard a lot of people complaining that you can really rip up your grass with them. I figured 1 rib was better than 5 or 6 ribs? Do not know that I will be mowing with this tractor much - it will be a worker. Might even use it as a rock picker in the bean fields in the spring? The 982 is the grass duty master when it runs right! Dog on Onan's!

 

[drglinski]

I like the 4 ply goodyear/carlisle tires on my 147. That's just a matter of preference. For something like an original, I'd like to have tri ribs. Tearing up the grass? Grass can grow back.

 

[dfrisk]

DANIEL - re. "Tearing up the grass", when it comes to repeated operations like mowing, you always tend to repeat the tearing up of grass in the same spots, which if on a slope which it typically is, will cause erosion, which makes the grass take MUCH longer to grow back if it ever does.

In 50+ yrs of mowing with CC's, I've found it best to NOT tear up the grass to start with. Even "Turf" tires, because they can't provide enough traction on grassy slopes can cause this problem by spinning when trying to climb slopes, therefore I use Firestone 23 degree lug tires on all my mowers.

When I was REAL young, 53 yrs ago mowing with the CCO and it's 6-13 GY turfs, we had a real steep but short hill on the frt yard roadbank, turning uphill to trim around the two HUGE Maple trees completely wiped out the grass around both trees. But since weed-eaters were still a couple decades from being "invented", we had no choice. A lugged tire would have solved the problem by eliminating slippage.

So, NO, grass can't always grow back.

And from what I've read on other forums, those Firestone 16-6.50X8's can make a really BIG furrow when turning sharp. That's a HUGE center rib.

 

[mpatterson]

Don T,
They are 4 ply tires. Sorry, was hoping for you!

Others,
I am going to run with these on the 782, going to throw the tubes in the front and load them with fluid. What the heck, won't know for sure if I don't try it myself. If I have a blade or a blower on the front, I won't be able to hand any weights of the front anyway, so might need all the help I can get. Really the weight is only to help prevent as much slippage as possible. I have ONE hill on my property that I have to deal with in the winter time, have to back along side of it with the load of fire wood to get it to the basement window. Hopefully the chains will work for the rear end (and my large a$$) so only have the front to worry about. Other than that, will likely be using the tractor for work duty around the yard and in the fields. Hope to put ags on the back of it too eventually. The deck I have for this tractor is pretty rough, so won't be spending time on it anytime soon to get it hooked up and going. Lets see, dedicated tractor on trailer/wagon duty and in off season snow removal. That works for me for now! As long as I get SEAT TIME, that's my big worry right now!

 

[digger]

Mike P.
Come on down!
I can fix you up with no less than 40 hours of seat time right now!

I won't start till you get here so you won't miss out.

 

[mpatterson]

Sounds good Charlie! Do I need to bring my dog sled to get to you or will my Chevy get me there ok? The amount of snow we have here now, I could shovel my entire drive way in about 1 hour if I didn't fall on my a$$ 20 times due to the ICE underneath it all! Dog on Canadian winters, we need our old ones back where we actually got SNOW!

 

[dfrisk]

MIKE P. - I'm kina biased against fluid, even WWF in the frt tires, and rear tires FWIW, on my #1 snow mover I carry the frt wheels of the tractor 6 to twelve inches in the air when pushing snow. Hard to do that with a CC, but my experience the last couple years with a CC blade was they scrape right down to bare concrete in My case with NO down-force needed, and only on the wettest nasty snow that would plug up ANY QA-36 will they try to push the tractor sideways away from the angle of the blade, and that's only with 5-6 passes and a BIG windrow to try to move.

If you've got ice under the snow, good luck! I just watched a video over on the RPM forum of what might work for you.... it's in the coffee shop... about the TD-24 crawler! No chains of fluid needed with 40,000# of steel & iron with 170 drawbar HP... the 6-cyl 1091 CID engine was too big for the Neb. Test lab's dyno so no PTO or Belp HP numbers.

 

[mhomrighausen]

Afternoon, All. Just got a picture of the #591 Cub Cadet srial number. I even asked if it was stamped into the side and was told it was. Geez do i feel embarrassed.... The gentleman's version of hand stamped was a screwed in part I.D. number. I truly apologize for the distraction I've caused. It would have been great if it had been #591 Cub Cadet. At least the fella savedit from the fellas that were going to cut it up for scrap.