Re: Cub with belly mower - any good?

Posted by Buzzman72 on July 11, 2005 at 07:46:27 from (63.189.209.6):

In Reply to: Cub with belly mower - any good? posted by ags1 on July 11, 2005 at 06:29:53:

A lot of the answer to your question is, "it depends..." As in, it depends on the condition of the Cub (assuming you ARE talking about a regular Cub and not a Cadet), it depends on the mower, and it depends on what you're cutting.

When I was a teenager, Dad had a Cub that he did custom mowing with. With a Woods 42C belly mower, that Cub would cut just about anything you could get under it...of course, the 2450 rpm governor off a power unit was a big help, as was the drilled-out carb jet. We also used a Mott Hammerknife belly mower for a time, and it was great on straight lawns...as was the Woods 59. And the Cub-22 sickle mower managed to do a wonderful job on the stuff where it was needed, especially when Dad had a contract with the town mowing street and alley rights-of-ways.

But if you expect the Woods 59 (or the IH 5-foot belly mower) to do a bush-hog type of job, you'll be disappointed because the mower simply pulls too hard to effectively cut the heavy stuff (and it uses "lawn-mower" blades, instead of the heavy swinging-type blades that the Woods 42C has). But conversely, with the Woods 42C, as long as you keep the blades fairly sharp and don't mow any stumps or rockpiles, you can still get a lawn-quality job from it as well.

I spent a lot of hours of seat time on that Cub, sometimes six days a week when the weather allowed, so if the Cub is in good mechanical shape and you have the right belly mower for the type of mowing you intend to do, I think you'll be quite pleased with its performance.

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• Re: Cub with belly mower - any good? ags1 08:18:01 07/11/05 (1)
  • Re: Cub with belly mower - any good? Buzzman72 19:46:31 07/11/05 (0)

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