that 50th anniversary "cub cadet", yuk. they could have come out with something that looks like a IH cub cadet, it would have been much better. better yet, produce a limited production run of real garden tractors. you know the kind with a cast iron transaxle, cast iron engine, heavy duty frames. why not a limited production run of cub cadets like they should be. that 50th anniversary model has more plastic than a model airplane. that thing is terrible.
i dont know, i respect IH cub cadets and even some of the ccc's, but when mtd fully intergrated cub cadet into their product line it became terrible. gone forever are the machines that most of us love. john deere is no different. i also own a john deere 112, its a wonderful little tractor and has worked hard for me. i have mowed feild grass with it and ran the snot out of the 37a blower through the deepest, nastiest snow on the planet running it in the some of the coldest temperatures. that old peerless cast iron transaxle has never given me any trouble. seems like the harder you work these tractors, the more they like. i go to the john deere store to buy parts and i see very little that interests me. a bunch of cheap plastic. my wife says, oh they are so pretty. i see only junk.
i havent had a chance to work the cadet yet, but i just got her. she's a 1970 147 and she's going to make a great addition to my 2 acre lawn mowing, and maybe even some snow throwing.
i also noticed that on the 50 year timeline, they show very little of the IH cub cadets on that timeline. i wonder why? mtd would rather people forget about the great IH cub cadets. they care nothing about "heritage", which is why the 50th anniversary model doesnt look retro. they would assume people forget about the older machines becuase they were built so much better.
i dont even like to use the word heritage because the real cub cadet were produced by international harivester, a real tractor company. modern "cub cadets" are produced by mtd, a junk producing box store lawnmower company.
cub cadet died in 1981, RIP
i wish john deere would produce a retro 140 or 112, that would be cool. at least john deere is still produced by a agriculture tractor company, even if the newer machines arent what the older machines used to be