2018 - Volume #42, Issue #3, Page #22
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He Raised An Old Cub To New Heights
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“I have five Cub Cadets that run. The mailbox was made with a carcass I’d taken parts from,” explains the Cub Cadet collector and restorer.
Since he had removed the engine, transmission and other parts, there was plenty of room to slip a mailbox into the front and cut out a muffler-shaped piece of metal for a flag.
He found the center of gravity and made an angle iron bracket for the bottom of the tractor to bolt to the metal post. He set the Cub in place with a front-end loader.
Other than adding a propane cylinder to replicate a starter/generator and giving the model 105 Cub a fresh coat of paint, there wasn’t much to the project, King says.
“Compared to restoring Cub Cadets it was easy,” King says. “I take them entirely apart and paint and put them back together again. I have a 1963 Model 70 - that was the first year International made them - and I keep it pristine.”
For many folks however, the Cub on the post is also impressive. It’s caught the attention of passersby and has been photographed for local papers.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Frank King, 417 Water Dam Rd., Waynesburg, Penn. 15370 (ph 724 852-4416; frangiek@gmail.com).
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