"$&@;;:! Kids!"
 

So a couple days ago while mowing the back yard I spun a bearing on the idler on the cut deck. So I parked it by the back porch till I could make room in the shop. Fast forward to this morning. I come home from work, when I go to put tractor in shop to start repairs. I find that the gas cap is off and the kids play shovel is next to rear wheel and a significant amount of dirt and sand is all over the seat, controls, ect. And down in the gas tank!!!!! Not the welcome home I was looking for! Just had to share.

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It happens!

Good ole kids. :biggrin2:

Oh I'd majorly peeved off at that one. Stinkin kids these days :biggrin2:

Your kids or "good neighbor" kids ? ? ?

Makes a difference when you get your cub running again if you can run 'em down or not.......:p:p:p





I know you really can't do that, but just thinking about it.........

Good thing your a fairly good detective and put 1, 2, and 3 together.

OUCH! When may Dad bought his 127 ages ago (he bought it "gently" used about 35 years ago) someone had shoveled a bunch of sand into the tank! It took him years to eventually get it all out (he was too cheap to add an inline filter, of course). I can't remember all of the times he had to take the float bowl off and dump sand and gas out of it in the middle of mowing.

Glad you caught it when you did! You're making me second guess my decision to leave my 149 under a tarp this summer... :bigthink:

My brother ran into a tree with the front corner of Dad's 782 and the hood hasn't been able to shut the same ever since.

X2!! Just think what might have been if you hadn't noticed.

Cub Cadet 123

i hit a tree and broke the front axle on my dads 127, not only was in huge trouble, i had to pay to weld the axle and do the repairs at 13 lol

The easiest part of your job will be fixing the idler , the hardest part is all the rest.
I would depending on age implement some accountability , they pay some how to offset your additional workload.
It sadly is something that seems to be a thing of the past accountability , you broke it , you fix it or pay to get it fixed
My other pet hate whilst I am going is Abrogation of responsibility , it is always some one else who is to blame , I trip over , who can I sue
Regards
Oz

Hit a limestone planter in the front yard and knocked it down when I was 10.. Had to pay to have that repaired too! I didn't even want to mow the yard!

It took over 10 years but vengeance was mine when my Dad hit the EXACT SAME PLANTER and knocked it down again.

I remember when I was a kid probably 10 or 11 I went driving through the pasture on the 1200 found a mud hole and you know what happened. I buried it up over the deck had to get mom to pull me out before dad got in from the field! Then wash it all up. Least I didn't break anything.

I've gotten dad's cub stuck many times and washed off before he knew about it.:biggrin2:

I agree, it happens.:biggrin2:

This brings back memories some not so good. LOL:biggrin2:

I'm pretty sure getting a cub stuck is actually a requirement of ownership in the manual. Like oil changes.

This is a good teaching moment for both kids and parent. I only say this as I have had a couple of these myself. I have made adjustments and set some boundaries and thus far, things have been good. I am just thankful I have some kids that enjoy being outdoors instead of behind a video game controller all day long, just want to cherish the time I have with them because it will be gone all too soon. Good luck!

I was out in my workshop the other day with my boy, he's 3. He loves the tools and the tractors and while we were out the he grabbed a screw driver and stared walking towards my freshly painted 108, he was saying he was gonna work on the tractor to which I replied ' if you put a scratch in that tractor im gonna put a scratch in your butt ' only I used the other word for butt.

was it booty or tush?

I think it was "badonkadonk."