Jim Becker said: (quoted from post at 09:36:58 01/08/10)
sflem849 said: Wouldn't the blades sping backwards if you put it on a different mower? So the theory was in making it turn backwards so you couldn't overload the tractor with bigger implements?
Sickle bar mower. The knife works about the same when it keeps moving left-right-left as it does moving right-left-right.
The theory was keep the cost low. The typical customer didn't have bigger implements to hook onto. If they did, thay also had a bigger tractor that would run them.
In the mid 1940's, there was no such thing as a universal implement that would fit all tractors. Even 3PT hitch was proprietary.
The Cub and its Cub-specific implements weren't a grand conspiracy, it was revolutionary engineering for the time.
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