Got my 125 in 1972. Used it for all of these years for mowing, snow blowing and anything else I could think of. It's featured in a story in one of the earlier issues of Cub Cadet Magazine. Just did a restoration last year and even managed to find the original type seat and dash tin. Good for another 52 years.
My father always seemed to find these "orphaned" tractors from Gibson, Centaur, Silver King, and an Atomic Babe, with Novi engine that I still have and still use to cultivate today. So glad he had an interest in these odd now rare tractors
I have a 1967 Cub Cadet 124, I use it for my sled pulling tractor and garden work. I have a Brinly bottom plow and a Brinly tandem disc for it. I love my 124, and I also have a John Deere 200, has a mower deck and snowblower.
Cub Cadet did not change a dang thing in gardening . That is a BIG lie . There was other 2 wheel and 4 wheel garden tractors way before IH made the first Cub Cadet . For instance Gravely started back in 1922 with a one wheeler using a Indian single cylinder engine . I been reading comments that people was saying I sure do wish they made them like they used to . There is a problem with that , One being that they would cost 4 or 5 thousand today . Just the cheaper ones . The other problem is that not everyone can afford one . So with that being said there wont be any one made . There is two companies that do make a dang good garden tractor and those are Steiner and Ventrac . Those are not even in a person price range . They start at $25,000 and up . They are not that great for the money . I owned one . Replacing hydro lines and fixing leaks all the time . They have all the hydro lines running threw the knuckle where they pivot and they rub one another all the time . Really they are junk . At least with a solid garden tractor and it being gear drive there not much goes wrong . The thing with Cub Cadet IH and MTD the parts is out of this world . The dealers want gold you first born and your wife if she is sellable . Just price any new part for a older cub cadet garden tractor . Ho by the way John Deere is none better . Your going to pay out the hole for parts . About as afordable as old gaden tractors goes is an old Roper Sears Best garden tractor , They can do the same amount of work and they would cost less to buy parts for . Finding an old GT16 or GT18 with an Onan engine in it is really hard to find and finding a good one is even harder . But when those was new they was not cheap ether but still cheaper than Cub or John Deere .
I'm trying to find a video I think it was on your channel on a tractor that was made over seas from the US and shipped to Canada if I remember correctly. You didn't change the oil on it, and to go in reverse you spun the motor in reverse. What happened to that video? I can't find it.
I have a 1968 104 that I also mow with, even some incredibly steep hills with the 48" IH Tri-blade deck. ( wich actually measures out to 54 inches ) Amazing how tough International used to build things.
I doubt it would run a tiller. I've seen that set up to run a pump for water or a log splitter. Put the rear end on blocks and select a gear and the tire will run your pump. The rear pto on this cub would have been used for a tiller
A PTO shaft on the rear axle, is usually called "Ground engaging power take off" mostly use for fertilizing and marking plant (plug) spacing. Nice to have.
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I see a lot of chassis similarities with this and my fathers 1966 Sears Suburban 12. Paint it blue and white and at first glance you could mistake it for a Suburban.
@Robert Kuhnke Yeah the sickle bar they had front end loaders and everything back then for garden tractor now you just got pos garden tractors mtd junk
This is long --so don't read this if you don't want to! Yes I believe that the Danuser Machine Works made a Danco set of fork lifts for these narrow frame models which should be able to be used from 1961-1971 model years. (I know there weren't really model years but until the next series (Series 6) wide frame models came out in September of 1971 for the 1972 model year. If I recall, the Danco unit was able to lift up to 500 pounds up to 72 inches high. I have a pic of one and it is interesting to note that these were typically used for when a commercial owner wanted to use his Cub Cadet for more tasks around the farm or warehouse without having to purchase a real heavy duty Fork lift machine. Obviously this would be for only occasional light use at only 500 lbs of capacity. Even so it is interesting that if such a set up was used regularly and to its full 500 lb limit I believe that Danco strongly advised that owners upgrade the front end of the tractors with stronger & apparently larger wheels (typically a 4 or 5 lug set up) with larger diameter spindles so that the front end can handle the extra weight of the forklifts attachment itself plus the added 500 pounds hanging off the front end! This is a good idea whenever using these Cub Cadets or other garden tractors for extra heavy front end load work (like using a FEL--front end loader) because of all the stress such units put on the front of the tractor. This true with other good garden tractors as well. (True ground engaging tractors is what most knowledgeable people define a garden tractor as being, versus the fake, weak-framed and massively overpowered garden tractors (really they are lawn tractors) now sold for $1600 or so at the Big Box stores like Home Depot.) You can tell a garden tractor by it's weight, heavy frame, sturdy transmission and drive axle, heavy duty attachments made for it, etc-- NOT by the hp advertised at the Big Box Stores! In fact the high hp numbers of these present day lawn tractors is often so high it will steadily and rapidly lead to the destruction of the rest of the unit (ruined transmission/bent frame if you try to plow snow much,/bent up attachments,etc). If you mow a smaller area (less than 2 acres), mow very carefully (don't hit any heavy objects!), and do not tow over 300 pounds and don't plow significant amounts of snow, etc, and maintain it very well, it might last 15 years or more... And people typically prefer this! They would rather just buy a new one every 10-15 years instead of buying a heavy duty machine. It's the new America! --just throw the whole thing out with the engine (often a Kawasaki or other reasonable brand engine) still running well! (The manufacturers can use a 20-25 hp engine and brag about it and obtain it for just few dollars more than a 12 or 15 hp model and that's why they do it! And besides the huge hp allows them to brag about their low quality (but large cutting swatch) of their mower decks so a man can finish the task faster!) ...But good heavy duty machinery still does exist. For example I bought a gravely 144Z Zero turn commercial model for $4600 18 years ago. It's a heavy duty upper medium weight machine and it shows (with a weight of 953 lbs) and hasn't once failed (except the fuel pump (a $12 pulse pump) that took 6 minutes to replace, and a plugged up right fuel tank fixed with a new fuel hose. (But I only cut a full 1.5 acres so it gets relatively light use.) And these machines can push snow!--But I don't use it for that since I have an original still in the family 1968 Cub Cadet 125 I can use for that!
I have a 1972 cub cadet 86 I have a plow and a 44in deck the 86 was manufactured from 1971 to 1974 I just bought it 2 months ago and I rebuilt the deck and I have been cutting with it. It feels like it has 10x the power of my 2006 craftsman 24hp 2 cylinder
My Grandpa bought one of these. Don’t remember the model but it was about as big as they came with a mower deck. And it had PTO. Found the owners manual as a kid. This thing could run a farm or pick up golf balls, literally. Still have the tow behind plow and leaf raker.
YES SIR MY DAD WAS THE FIRST TO BUY A CUB CADET BACK IN THE YEAR OF NINETEEN SIXTY FIVE A ONE HUNDRED SERIES AND SINCE THEN MY GRANDPARENTS BOUGHT A ONE TWENTY FOUR BACK IN THE YEAR OF NINETEEN SIXTY NINE AND I HAD BOUGHT A SEVENTY BACK IN THE YEAR OF NINETEEN NINTY AND THEN I HAD AQUIRED A ONE FORTY NINE BACK IN TWO THOUSAND AND ONE AND THEN I HAD BOUGHT A ONE HUNDRED WITH THE ATTACHMENTS AND THEN MY BROTHER BOUGHT A ONE FORTY NINE AND THEN HE BOUGHT A ONE O EIGHT AND THE LAST ONE HE BOUGHT A ONE TWENTY TWO ABOUT SIX MONTHS AGO NOW AND THAT IS OUR CUB CADET COLLECTION AMONG THE VARIOUS ATTACHMENTS THAT THEY EACH HAVE
Mike Zahnow Depended on which model of the Cub you are talking about. Cubs came in both stick shift and hydrostatic models. Only the original Cubs were stick only.
I have a JD 210 with the Variator and a Hydro Cub Cadet 169. They both work great for mowing, but the Cub has it beat by way of not having to shift gears if you have to back up.
