Are you "old school" Cub?
 

I'm just curious and wondering how much seat time the membership here has logged.

I'll be 34 on 5/31 this year... I've been running cubs for 29 years (started on Dad's 127, then Grandpa's 102, then Grandpa's (now mine) 149, and then my 1650... all 4 are in the family still)...

So... As I approach 30 years with my butt in an Cub seat I'm wondering who else is old school and/or die hard? :)

(Earliest memories and favorite stories would be AWESOME!!!)

My dad might have you all beat. He has been riding cubs since he was a kid. His brothers bought a 122 brand new and that was when he was six, and is fifty two now.

One cool thing that he has told me is that like tractors you could trade in Cub Cadets for new ones. I think he said they traded the 122 for a 1250 way back when.

i think i've logged abotu twice your 34 just over this winter! i love using the cub for everything even if i am able to do it without a cub i do it just because i can!

Now that I have that oil-sipper under the hood, I drive it just to drive it!

I bought a 108 off a guy that had initially bought an original and a IH pickup.

He traded them BOTH in every three years until he got the 108.

He hauled the tractor in the truck to a dealer that carried both, then hauled home the new tractor in the new truck.

Then he switched to Chevrolet pickups.

A year later I bought his '81 Chevy truck also.

He moved to FLA, and didn't need either.

Me, I have only had a Cub Cadets since 1980.

HA! You guys are awesome! :)

Double my 34 years in a winter? Pissssah... I've been plowing snow with cubs personally since 1985.... ;) That is the exact reason I bought my QA-42 a few years back... However, my Simplicity 555 (noticing a trend for my passion of power equipment from "the day"?) hasn't given me a reason to mount it up!

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The guy that sold his IH pickup off in favor of Chevy's really missed the boat.. I say that as an owner of 2 GM pickups ('01 S-10 LS, '74 GMC 4x4 SuperCustom [one owner if you count me and my Dad as a single owner]), and a former member of IH's (ahem... sadly... "Navistar") engineering group (Medium Duty Powertain, Mechanical). The IH stuff is built like a brick outhouse... Chevy was cheaping out even in the '70s.

I would just about kill a man to come up with a nice clean Scout, second only to my desire to own a '73-'75 K-5 Blazer (with FULL convertible roof) to match my '74 GMC pickup! Pretty blue and white twins in the garage... That would make be a happy boy! :)

I've already seen a Scout II dressed in the exact same colors as my GMC... It looked awesome! So... That's on the table as well!

I bought my 1973 model 108 in 1978, used, from a Cub dealer for $1500. It was a huge investment for my wife and me at the time, having just bought our first house. But we had 2 acres and needed something to cut all that grass. We sold that house in 1981 and bought our current place. With about 7 of our 10 acres in grass, I use a bush hog on my blue tractor to do the pastures, and used the 108 for the couple acres around the house until we bought the orange tractor. The 108 has been down at the river house cutting over an acre every week since 2006.

So that gives me, what, 35 years in the seat of the 108?

lmao my bad i thought ya ment 34 hours. eather way give me a few years ill catch up :beerchug:

@Saw: But... but... but.. You kinda wussed out with those other colors... ;) I mowed grass with a my good old school 2 cycle lawn boy (it's green. but not a tractor) for 3 years before I became a home owner... Ever since then (despite 1 time mowing "the field" [3 level acres] with Dad's 2210 Deere, and the summer of meltdown on my 1650) I've been rocking an IH Cub exclusively.

(I'm not intending to cause offense... If I had my way I would have Kubota tractors from here to eternity)

@Cubby: LOL!!! It's cool! More seat time in a good old Cub is something we all need! Perhaps I'm nostalgic for all of those many hours spent mowing over 8 acres with a 44A (or smaller) in my youth?