cub cadet junk yard guy offered me something
 

It's a 125 with 3pt hitch and a tiller. $200 dollar price would include a complete tractor setup with tiller. It's been sitting outside a long time. The tractor is quite rough. I would probably buy it for that cheap price, use the 3pt, and the tiller. I would probably part the rest of the tractor out. the tractor is pretty rough. Oh, yeah, it has the creeper gear which I could probably get money out as well. What options existed to run a tiller? Would it operate the same way on a hydro as it would a gear drive? Oh, yeah and the tractor includes the complete k301 with starter generator. for the price, its allot of stuff. I don't know what condition any of it is in, it has sat for a long time. For the price its rough but there is allot there. How well made are these tillers and what problems do they usually have. do they have a tendency to seize up from sitting outside in the elements too long.

Oh, and I should mention its $200 bucks in cash or.... I could help him out with some of the equipment he sells and work it off. Get the machine for some time invested helping him out

I am sure you already accepted his proposal! If it has a creeper, it's not a 125, they are hydros (I have been parting one myself), must be a 124! In my neck of the woods, the complete tiller setup would be around $300+, the lift should be worth at least $75, and I think the creepers go for around $200+... If you haven't jumped on this deal, I think you need help...LOL! You should be able to sell the creeper and part out the 124? and will be winding up being paid to take the tiller and lift!

are parts hard to come by for these tillers. and yeah i think you are right its a 124. odd numbers are hydros, my blunder

Unless you have a another tractor that's a hydro or has a creeper you'll need that creeper. The tillers do a great job! I'm not a fan of parting out running tractors but it's your so do with as you wish. Well if you buy it that is.

first of all this machine its not running. it has been sitting outside for god only knows how long. its pretty rough. my 147 is a hydro so that is the machine i would run the tiller off of. the engine on this 147 probably would need to be overhauled. it would need allot of work and money to get it running again. everything is also rusted up with allot of things non-functional. the k301 block i would get would give me another block that i could rebuild in the future if i needed it.

so i would not be parting out a running tractor but one that has sat outside for probably 15 or 20 years. the engine is probably worn out, but there is no way to tell without digging into it.

im already doing some work for the guy in order to help fund my parts. i replaced the drive shaft pin on a 782, and i worked on a 169. i replaced the starter generator on the 169 and got it running. i had the points, coil, and float bowl gasket. now it still needs a carburetor isolator gasket. it runs, but the carburetor gets too hot. i also changed the oil on a 127. he is giving me 10 bucks an hour cash. its not a whole lot, but getting paid to bring old cubs back to life is pretty sweet.

Unless you are wanting to turn your 147 into a 127, you won't want to keep the 301 for it. There is not enough iron at the bottom of the cylinder in the 301 to turn it into a 321...it might be possible to sleeve it, to make it fit the larger piston, but the answer to that is better off left to a machinist.

If the 124 is in overall bad shape, I would not hesitate for a minute to take it apart and sell off what good parts you can salvage out of it. Means more money to re-invest in repairing/ rebuilding the 147!

the 147 already has a 301, since the 321 was damaged by the failure of the balance gears. it is a typical k series problem. oh, and one more thing the 147 will always be a 147 since it has the modified frame. it can take up to a 16 hp engine. so if i ever installed a 16 hp engine, would that make it a 167? lol, thats kind of funny.

That would make it a 169.

no, he is right, it would become a 167, a tractor that never existed before. His 147 is a narrow frame, actually the last in the series, the 169 is in the first series of wide frames. The 147 was made with modified frame rails to squeeze in the much wider K321 14 hp that has a larger flywheel and shrouding to cover it. If he puts a K341 16hp in it, he would have a 167 had the factory ever made such a beast.

That is an awesome deal...and to have the option to work it off is even better. I hope you got it.:biggrin2: