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Old 09-13-2013, 10:22 AM
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I just love my 122. What an awesome TRACTOR! It's Cub Cadet IH or bust for me now.

Too bad they don't make em' like this anymore. Quality was once a honored thing in the U.S. Now its plastic, throw it out buy another generation.
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What do you mean now; quality went out in the late 80's early 90's when we became apart of the disposable generation ! So start rebuilding every thing we have , because what gets built tomorrow won't be worth the cloth a dollar bill is printed on !
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...couldn't agree more!
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i grew up with my narrow frame cub cadets, cant wait to restore the 71 and the 127

most other tractors seem like crap to me, i do like a few other extinct brands too like wheel horse and economy
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They are great machines! You can't beat an IH Cub Cadet.
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My 124 got me hooked. My favorite.
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IH had to spend a lot of time and money into the Quiet Line Series. Wonder if the government/tractor regulators { rivet counters } reimbursed IH at all for that expense?

As I was mentioning to Allen a while back, I feel the Original up through the end of the first series wide frame were IH's absolute best made, and best built garden tractors.

I will not, however, as a Cub Cadet fan, and fan of the forum claim that the post garden tractors are any less superior. In fact, those models are very operator friendly, can achieve bigger tasks in less time, have noticeable improvements over the nf, wf, and are out right power houses!

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My dad has owned a 70 since it was only about 2 years old and has a ton of implements for it. In 1993 he bought a new Cub just to mow with and he still likes the old one better I think.
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Quality comes at a price people don't want to pay.There are still quality new machines available if you want to spend the money. Don't expect to get 8 thousand dollar quality for 18 hundred bucks.
Back when these IH tractors were new they wern't cheap to buy for many people.
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Don't expect to get 8 thousand dollar quality for 18 hundred bucks.

Back when these IH tractors were new they wern't cheap to buy for many people.
I think it was 1973, I went to my CC dealer and priced a new 108 W/42" deck. I believe the price he quoted was $1050.00. I didn't believe I could justify spending that much money. I found a 108 a year old that had been used twice to cut grass and bought it for $800.

According to the inflation calculator, $1050 in 1973 is $5524.00 in 2013 money.

A 1864 tractor which I consider the best of the best in 1995 cost about $7500. Today's money that would be about $11,500.
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