Archive through January 27, 2009

[kide]

Dennis:
12-13 hours? You obviously need a bigger tractor when combining (or was it picking corn?) - you'll eventually wear that little guy out...

 

[dfrisk]

KENDELL - It was 4-5 yrs ago vacuuming leaves & grass clipping in the fall. I took a "Mental Health Friday" off work, had everything all ready to run from the weekend before. Gassed & greased everything up about Noon and started running around 1 PM. Conditions were just right all day, I ran till way after dark then ran with the lights on, Son came home from work, then left to hang out with His Buddies, Wife came home from work, Son came home from being out with His Buddies, I just kept running. Had to make gas stops every two hours or so. Got the whole yard done, everything cleaned up and put away....went in the house at 2 AM SATURDAY Morning. And the weight of the 72 & deck, the vac. unit and the cart full of leaves/clipping has to be close to 2000 pounds gross. Pretty good work-out for a K241. The new K321 handles it MUCH better.
Took Saturday off, had to rewire the light switch for the headlights I talked about the other day. Sunday about 7 AM I unhooked the vac & mower, threw the sleeve hitch on and aerated the yard TWICE. Got done with the second pass around 7 PM. The 72 had the old K241 in it then...only took about 5-6 ounces of oil to run that hard all day.
I had just changed the oil in the engine before I started vacuuming, when I got all done I checked the Hobbs hour meter and I'd put over 25 hrs on the tractor between Friday and Sunday's yard work.
The 72 only had the 5 quart gas tank on it then, so gas stops were frequent, That's why the replacement home-made gas tank was so large, about 3 gallons, O-K, only 2-7/8 gallons plumb full.

Cub Cadet, FARMALL M, 806, 1086, 5288.....Do You REALLY think You can wear any of them out?
Naw!

 

[kmcconaughey]

And for those interested in seeing Denny's home-made fuel tank:

 

[kide]

Dennis:
I said <u>eventually</u> (you've already got-what- 35 years on it??)..

 

[mmorrison]

Hey guys I seen some cubs with a stake. Do I need to run a muffler on my k301 or just the stack? I don't have the bolt holes and am having trouble making something work.

 

[kide]

Was that stake for the infamous Vampire Cub??
You're going to need to come up with a brace to hold that stack in position - the muffler has a bracket on it to hold it where it's supposed to be..

 

[dfrisk]

KENDELL - I've owned the 72 for only 28 yrs. but it's sneeking up on 41 yrs old total. I can't remember if it was built in April or May '68.

Believe it or not there are a couple things I have not had to take apart on it. I've never had the shifter plate off the top of the transmission housing and no gears & shafts out of the transmission or differential.
I put brakes in the reduction housing, new bearings, seals & gaskets, & drive pinion in the reduction housing back in about 1990, I broke the end off the pinion shaft....I was stupid! And I put axle carriers from a parts tractor 123 on it 2 yrs ago. 7 HP GD Cubbies had bushings at the ends of the rear axles, Hydro's & higher HP tractors had needle bearings. I wanted the bearings.
The 70 I have that Dad bought brand new in '65 probably has more hours on it, but just with 7 & 8 hp engines and is actually in better mechanical shape than the 72. Cosmetics are a different situation however.

 

[kmcconaughey]

Mike, here's A LINK to an archived page that has some vertical exhausts.

 

[klejeune]

Thanks Jim L.

Jerry B,
How's the fun with the boys today? We got at least 4" of snow last night. Dang work is keeping me from playing in it. I took the 1450 to work this weekend, so after 5pm tonight I'll be cleaning off the sidewalk and a little of the parking lot. (landlord skid steer already got most of it done

)

 

[kide]