I spent 5 or 6 of my teenage years with my butt in the seat of Pappy's Cub, when he was running a custom mowing service. We used several different mowers under the Cub over the years, but the Woods 42 was the most versatile. With the Woods 42, you could cut stuff from lawns to weeds higher than the hood, and make it all look good as long as you kept the blades sharp...and with the quick-change blades, there's no excuse NOT to keep your blades sharp.
The Woods 59 was probably better on 2"-3" lawns, but it pulled harder than the 42...which is natural, since it's 40% bigger, not to mention you're driving 3 mower spindles and bearings instead of one. The Danco/IH 5-foot rotary pulled even harder than the Woods 59, although I never quite understood why. Best on lawns that were 3" or less--and COMPLETELY dry--was the Mott Hammerknife flail mower. It pulled harder than the 42, but when conditions were right, you could leave a lawn looking like a carpet.
As far as a Cub sickle bar mower, there were a couple of different lengths...4-1/2 feet and 5-foot cutter bars, IIRC. If the cutter bar is sharp,and the stuff you're cutting isn't wet, you should have no problems with it plugging up as long as you match your ground travel speed to what you're cutting. Or at least that's my experience. We used the sickle bar mower on the Cub when mowing street rights-of-way and alleys, and cutting around fire hydrants for the town. Advantage of the sickle bar mower is, you don't have to drive over the area you're cutting...such as a ditch bank.
If your Cub is down on power, the 5-foot mowers will let you know in a hurry; the 42 and the sickle bar, not as much. As for the gopher holes, many a Cub front spindle housing has been cracked or broken by dropping a front wheel into a gopher hole. That's why there are so many Cubs out there with welded spindle housings.
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