tool ch 5 v3

In 1960 International Harvester built a lawn tractor that was too good — cast iron where everyone else had already switched to stamped tin, for a guy mowing half an acre on Sunday. Twenty-one years later they sold it to stay alive one more year, and died anyway. What no one else is telling you: the Cub Cadet wasn't killed by a competitor or a bad model year. It was sold healthy and beloved, because it was a clean asset small enough to move fast while the parent company was bleeding out from a 172-day strike, a grain embargo, and a 21.5% prime rate all at once. In this video: Deere passing Harvester in 1958, the Louisville Works and the January 1961 Original, the Kohler engine and the gear-driven driveline, narrow-frame and wide-frame models, Quietline in 1974, the 982 with rear PTO and hydraulics, Archie McCardell's arrival in 1977 and his compensation, the 1979–80 UAW strike and $479 million in losses, the Soviet grain embargo, the 1981 MTD sale, the red-livery IH Cadets built by MTD, the 1985 Case IH sale, and Stanley Black & Decker's 2021 buyout of MTD. If you own an old Cadet, look at what's cast into the metal — it outlived the company that poured it. ⏱ Chapters: 00:00 A lawn tractor built like farm iron 2:20 Why the weight was the whole point 5:00 A giant already slipping 7:40 172 days and a grain embargo 10:20 Selling the life raft 13:00 What the dealers lived through 15:00 Cast iron to aluminum 📚 Sources & further reading: • International Harvester product literature and Cub Cadet model records, 1961–1981 • Contemporary reporting on the 1979–1980 UAW strike and Harvester's losses • Federal Reserve prime rate data for 1980 • Paul Wallem's published dealer memoir of the Harvester collapse • MTD and Stanley Black & Decker acquisition announcements, 2018 and 2021 ⚠️ Disclaimer: Based on manufacturer records, contemporary reporting, financial data, and a published dealer memoir cited above. Dealer-count and job-loss figures come from one insider's estimate and are labeled as such rather than presented as audited. Educational purposes only; interpretations are the creator's own. Subscribe for the corporate story under the nostalgia — and in the comments, tell me which Cadet you own and whether it still starts first try. I read every one. cub cadet history, international harvester collapse, 1961 original cub cadet, louisville works kentucky, archie mccardell strike, 1980 grain embargo, mtd cub cadet 1981, cast iron rear end, case ih 1985, stanley black decker mtd #CubCadet #InternationalHarvester #GardenTractor #Farmall #MTD #Tractors #History #Americana