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Question on production numbers
I have look at the list of production # and one just look hard to believe. The 3rd on all the list is the cub cadet 126. Around here in central N.C. the 126 cub cadets are everywhere. There is one on criegslist all the time. Theres one on there now. I counted about 12 at Denton farm park show this weekend. I saw no 800. No 169. Only saw two 73s. Which would be inline with the list. I saw on average 4 to 5 of all other model numbers. But no 127s. Maybe the 126 is just more in my area. Anyone else ever noticed or thought about this.
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I completely agree. I could buy them by the dozen here in western PA.
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Production numbers are accurate. A 126 is also easy to make. You just need a 106, a 12hp motor and some new stickers.
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What about the kind code on the tag?
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What about it? It won't be right, but not many people even know the 126 is on the rare list, or what a kind code is.. Heck I see guys advertising red 782's as "rare", even when they are clearly MTD tractors.
There were 5247 126's made, and it's not hard to think the vast majority are in the east. Besides, how many are the same ones being resold. How many are really 126's? Who knows. |
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I do see your point.
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Being from NC and having a father who worked at a dealership for over 20 years, let me toss out a theory. Dad's boss ordered all the equipment, whether it was a hay baler, tractors, of lawn mowers. He tried to stay with what was a tried and true model on all equipment. When the new models came out, he stuck with what sold well in the past and that may share parts. Most of the older Cadets they sold were 12hp machines. This way he could keep tons of engine parts on the shelf. Likewise, the same power plant could pull the same size deck--so lots of the same deck parts on hand. They sold a TON of Cadets, back in the 60's and 70's. Being in a tobacco growing region, it was RARE anybody wanted to do anything but mow grass (if you can't understand that you never plowed a garden with any of the offset cultivating tractors A, Super A, Cub,100,130,140--you'd never use a Cadet if you did) , so no need for hydraulic lift and spring assist. Now if you were here in the 60's, you know tobacco was king and 95% of tobacco farms were IH--which in turn means there were IH and Cadet dealers everywhere. Assuming they thought like him, they all sort of "standardized" their inventory. My theory is the 126 was a popular choice in this region based on that's just what the dealers put on the yard.
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