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Old 03-05-2019, 08:00 PM
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I saw some pictures on line of a farmall m with the front axle removed and a hitch in its place to hook it to a farmall 400. The operator runs both tractors from the front tractor. After looking around I see several other pictures of similar set ups hooking two tractors together. I got to thinking that it would be cool to do this with a pair of Cubs. Since I have several hydro wide frames in my bone yard I thought I'd use a pair of 129s I have laying around. I have figured out how I want to hook them together and how to make a new throttle control for the back tractor. The only thing I can't figure out is how to control the hydrostatic on the back tractor? Does anyone have any good ideas? Has anyone tried this before? Do you think this would work or is this a dumb idea?
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Old 03-05-2019, 08:28 PM
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I've seen those arrangements, too.

I think you could link the two hydro control plates with a flexible shaft--similar to a choke or throttle cable, only more robust, perhaps an outboard motor steering cable, so that when you move the front one, the rear tractor's plate moves in unison.
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Old 03-05-2019, 09:01 PM
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I like that idea! No I have something to think about
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I don't know if you got anywhere with your tandem drive, James Johnson used a design by Mr. Colin Hart to drive his. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2I5BDiJmT8
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The combined Cubs are great for a show piece,,, but,
I have a JD 650 that cost less than two beat up used Cub Cadets ,,
and it will out pull three Cub Cadets hooked together,,,

So, do you want to show, or do you want to "GO!",,,

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Old 01-04-2020, 07:19 PM
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The tandem Cubs would be cool for shows and plow days but cumbersome to use for anything else. Why not build a triple engine Cub. Saw this a couple years ago at a local show.
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When did they start making cub cadets green and that shade of yellow?
My bad, I thought this was "Only Cub Cadets".
I must be on the wrong forum.
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Old 01-05-2020, 09:21 AM
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We do allow free speech, in this free country.
Thank God, and many gallons of spilled blood from it's defenders.
Sometimes our highly paid six fingered monitors allow a mongrel to rear it's pretty head.
And I must admit, sometimes I lust in my heart for pretty puppy dawgs that are not mine
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When did they start making cub cadets green and that shade of yellow?
My bad, I thought this was "Only Cub Cadets".
I must be on the wrong forum.
When you get your post count over 3,000, instead of 30,,
we will look at anything you post,,, with joy,,,

Where is your pic of your machine?



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Old 01-05-2020, 09:26 PM
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Sorry, it was a joke.
But the piggyback cub cadet idea was a pretty cool.
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