Love 'em to death, but...

[Super A]

I agree with everything said about the Cub. B U T "if you guys had looked at the South End of a North Bound MULE as much as I had to, you would LOVE EVERYTHING about the Little Cub....I remember my dad decided to plant Tobacco in a different field than normal and the Wire grass almost killed 3 mules and 2 guys including ME! He came home one day with a cub with cultivators and I plowed that thing for 2 days and 1 night straight through. The mules lived, the hired hand came back and the whole family lived better from then on. Even the Cub "Exhaust" was Better.
Moral of that story" Never send 3 mules to do what 1 Cub can do."
Sammy

and that's the important thing to remember. my dad talks of the need to rest the horses at the end of the row, and the maintenance they required daily. these cubs were new then and did not require the hoods off for the first probably 10 years of their life. then you were supposed to get another one, like a horse
when i look today at some of these tractors and see the wear that endless hours of cultivating did, it's hard to believe the engineers saw that. hindsight being 20/20

It took three trips with a mule to do the same work a Cub could do in one. You had to go up one side of the row, back down the other side, and then one more to split the middle.

But I still don't like the one piece hood!

Al

[Scrivet]

....I remember my dad decided to plant Tobacco in a different field than normal and the Wire grass almost killed 3 mules and 2 guys including ME! ...............

OK, I'll admit I had no idea what "Wire grass" was until a little research but I still can't figure out how it can almost kill you. Care to educate me a little?

[danovercash]

You obviously never had to pull any from a flower bed and not dammage the flowers, LOL!

[Mr E]

You obviously never had to pull any from a flower bed and not dammage the flowers, LOL!

[Scrivet]

You obviously never had to pull any from a flower bed and not dammage the flowers, LOL!

You obviously don't realize that wire grass doesn't grow any where near Missouri.
From a friendly google search; "Wiregrass is limited to the southeastern United States. It ranges from Mississippi to Florida but only as far north as South Carolina."

So it's a regional thing I have no experience with. It would be like me asking how much tiff can you plant in a day? I'll bet there's only a handful of people on the forum that know what tiff is and understand the catch to see if you really know or are bluffing.

Still curious how wiregrass can almost kill three mules and two men?

[Hengy]

In the spirit of the original post. I love the little cub and how it only requires a few standard sized wrenches to work on. It is perfect for a small-time gardener/homeowner like me. BUT...my "what were they thinking" part has got to be the back three oil pan bolts being up inside the bell housing. Couldn't they have added another inch or two to the overall length of the tractor and made all of the bolts easily accessible?

Before you comment... Yes, I know that you don't typically have to remover the oil pan very often. In fact, probably never in the intended 7 year lifespan, but just in case, couldn't they have given just a little more room?

Mike in Gibsonia, PA

[Dale Finch]

...or how about "hiding" the fill plug for the LEFT final so you have to remove whatever is mounted to check the fluid level?!!!


I know it makes the left and right interchangeable, but maybe they could have put a second fill plug in each?? There is room...

[sammydonnacub]

[quote][/quote]OK, I'll admit I had no idea what "Wire grass" was until a little research but I still can't figure out how it can almost kill you. Care to educate me a little?

Wire grass is the original version of what is now commercially "Coastal Burmuda grass. It grows low to the ground and runs along the ground rooting wherever it touches. The field my dad chose(which was all that was available) had wire grass in it. We worked those Mules and us so hard trying to keep the tobacco plowed. The wiregrass grew faster than we could plow. We were running 5 passes to the row. It was hot and the wiregrass made the plowing hard for us and the mules. We had to rest the mules at every row end. With the cub, I could carry 1 row each way and plowed it Both ways on the first pas. That put most of the grass in the middle of the row where we could handle it. I remember how tough that grass is and am covering my 5 1/2 acre yard with it this year. It will be extremely tough, grow low and require much less cutting.
I was told by the old folks that "you can dig up wiregrass, pile it and let it dry, then burn it and wherever the smoke touches the ground, it will root." Maybe Not quite that bad, But really Close.
Hope that helps..
Sammy

[CapeCodCubs]

Taking the hood off isn't that much of a big deal and who cares if the oil pressure gauge is on the block. I do wish I knew how much fuel was in the tank so a gas gauge would have been nice. But then again....so minor of an issue that it wouldn't have crossed my mind if this post hadn't popped up.

[Bob Perry]

OK, I'll admit I had no idea what "Wire grass" was until a little research but I still can't figure out how it can almost kill you. Care to educate me a little?

Wire grass is the original version of what is now commercially "Coastal Burmuda grass. It grows low to the ground and runs along the ground rooting wherever it touches. The field my dad chose(which was all that was available) had wire grass in it. We worked those Mules and us so hard trying to keep the tobacco plowed. The wiregrass grew faster than we could plow. We were running 5 passes to the row. It was hot and the wiregrass made the plowing hard for us and the mules. We had to rest the mules at every row end. With the cub, I could carry 1 row each way and plowed it Both ways on the first pas. That put most of the grass in the middle of the row where we could handle it. I remember how tough that grass is and am covering my 5 1/2 acre yard with it this year. It will be extremely tough, grow low and require much less cutting.
I was told by the old folks that "you can dig up wiregrass, pile it and let it dry, then burn it and wherever the smoke touches the ground, it will root." Maybe Not quite that bad, But really Close.
Hope that helps..
Sammy

Wow that's awful.. Thankfully we never dealt with that, here or when we lived in upstate NY. Quackgrass could be bad, then we started to get into pretty bad velvetleaf in the corn. Well, I guess what doesn't kill ya makes ya tougher !

[Bob Perry]

Taking the hood off isn't that much of a big deal and who cares if the oil pressure gauge is on the block. I do wish I knew how much fuel was in the tank so a gas gauge would have been nice. But then again....so minor of an issue that it wouldn't have crossed my mind if this post hadn't popped up.

Sounds like the guys at work: If it has fuel, it's all set !

[CapeCodCubs]

Taking the hood off isn't that much of a big deal and who cares if the oil pressure gauge is on the block. I do wish I knew how much fuel was in the tank so a gas gauge would have been nice. But then again....so minor of an issue that it wouldn't have crossed my mind if this post hadn't popped up.

Sounds like the guys at work: If it has fuel, it's all set !

I do check the oil and coolant every time I take the hood off. While the hood is off I usually check my tire pressure, too. Heck if the hood is off I usually fill it up, easier to put gas in it while it is laying on the dirveway and off the tractor.