Actuator on the Cub Cadet

Greenfrog · Oct 29, 2022

Just an idea for others. I acquired this actuator, rigged it up to move the lift lever to rais and lower the plow.
Mounted a momentary rocker switch, center off, in box on the fender.

oldsarge · Oct 29, 2022

That'll work

DR. EVIL · Oct 29, 2022

IH actually bought a 12V Linear actuator as they are called for that function back about 1969, 1970,& 1971.
They worked OK for lite weight attachments, small mower decks, front blades, but heavy things like snow blowers they had a fairly short life lifting.
I have hydraulics on my 982, with cat 0 3-pt hitch and auxiliary frt remotes, I've dumped a L-O-T of heavy loads, 3000# or more with my Pronovost P-503 tandem axle dump trailer using the aux remotes. I had 50,000# of crushed granite in my driveway years ago I unloaded it all with my tractor & trailer.

Greenfrog · Oct 29, 2022

This one rated for 650 lbs. lift. Does good for lifting plow.
Easier on my arm and thumb!

R Bedell · Oct 30, 2022

DR. EVIL:

The IH version, which was made by Duff-Norton, had a lift capacity of 600#.

DR. EVIL · Oct 30, 2022

I'd always ignored info in catalogs about the elec lift actuator, in the late 1970's I went to a residential
auction in East Moline, Ill because it had a 147 Cub Cadet and an IH push mower. There was a cardboard box
with the tire chains to push snow with frt blade on the 147 and 3 actuators that had failed lifting the mower
deck and/or the blade.
Charlie Proctor said the little slip clutch that kept them from trying to lift too much was their weak spot.

I never had a problem with the manual lift as long as everything was oiled occasionally and not left out
in the weather. It was nice when my IH dealer had all the parts to fix the lift, last one I fixed I had to
make half the stuff, other half Charlie had.

Actuator on the Cub Cadet

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