Mike P - sorry I'm just catching up and saw your post on the reel mowers. My son has never tried using them. They just hook up to the draw bar. I do wonder myself how they turn. With the turn radius on these old Cubs I suspect they work quite well.
Don T - it's been awhile for me, but if I recall the original grease fittings are a push-in type, and fairly easy to remove, except when they are broken off. Hopefully you have a local NAPA that should have quite a variety of fittings, and yes, the push in type should have a very slight taper at the base which also makes them a little hard to keep straight when pushing them in - they tend to wobble off so you'll need a very close fitting socket to keep it quite straight.
JJ Mills - that's quite the meat on the front of that 86. I think you'd be better served swapping them around with the ones on the 1250., especially on snow. By the way, I can see a couple 40+ year old horses in your pic. How do you keep them feed in the winter?
Hydro Harry
Old Cubs Never Die