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Original Comment Maybe I should not post this rang but, I have finally reached the breaking point with my Cub Cadet 3x 30 snow blower. I just read through some of the comments from other Cub Cadet owners. Although no one has mentioned this model specifically, I think that the comments for what is here a surprise.<br /> <br /> It appears that my $1700.00 3x 30 snow blower was designed and built by a moron! The one time in my life when I went with a recommendation from Consumer's Report (I think it was those morons) and I got a total POS!<br /> <br /> I bought this disaster two years ago when I needed a good snow blower. My faithful 1988 Toro 824 needed a carburetor which had to be ordered. We had a big storm heading in so I just decided to bite the bullet and go for a new one since I could use the financing.<br /> <br /> The storm hit and at first the thing threw snow a country mile! Great! Off to a good start. Or, so I though. After about 15 minutes, the reverse no longer worked. It kind of worked if I pulled to help it but, barely. This is not good!<br /> <br /> The next day after things had settled down the reverse was working again. Hmmmm... The people from which I bought it came to deliver my old Toro with its new carb and opened the new up the new machine. They took off the cover and to my surprise I was staring at a blasted Da Vinci drive! What idiot would use that in a snow blower! REALLY?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! The tech sprayed a bit of carb cleaner onto the drive disk. That seemed to help but, only for a short time. The dealer said that there was nothing more that they could do and that I should contact the company directly. That's what I expected. Well, I'm too damn busy to think about this when it is not snowing so I never got around to doing that. I may well do so this week because I've had enough!<br /> <br /> What is the real problem? The real problem is that this thing was a victim of piss poor engineering and over all bad design work. Plain and simple! Unlike the engineer who came up with this mess, I'm no idiot. I've worked on cars, trucks, boats, planes and just about anything else that moves. I've also done mechanical design and engineering for astronomical equipment. As soon as I saw the drive I knew exactly what was wrong and that there was no way to ever make it work properly. (If you don't know what a Da Vinci drive is then go look it up.) The problem is that the vertical disk has a rubber edge which is supposed to help it grip the horizontal disk. The rubber used is garbage and slips when the thing gets wet! It's the wrong compound and the disk has been polished smooth. Of course it will slip when it gets wet! Any engineer who has ever worked on any machine in his life would know better! This should have been belt driven or had a transmission! This is a joke!<br /> <br /> Another problem is the control lever for the elevation of the discharge chute. It freezes in place when the temperature goes below 32F/0C! Yeah! It freezes and cannot be moved! I finally traced the problem to moisture (AGAIN!) that is in the control cables! Whoever installed these cables never thought to put any lubricate inside the sheathing! Just how stupid are these people, anyway?! There is no excuse for this! Since there is NO LUBRICANT inside the cable sheath the assembly sucks up water via capillary action and that then freezes inside of the sheathing. The cables can no longer move to adjust the upper part of the discharge chute once that happens! The only way to fix it is to take it all apart, hang the cables up, drip a PTFE based lubricant into the upper end and wait until it drips out at the bottom. THEN the damn cables will never freeze up again. (We used to do this for control cables on motorcycles, bicycles, emergency brake cables, etc.) <br /> <br /> So, here I am on my second year with this heap. It does OK when in a forward gear and for the most part it throws the snow very well. However, the lowest gear is way too fast and the higher gears would require an Olympic athlete to keep up with it! The lower &quot;gear&quot; needs to be even lower. It needs to work in a &quot;creeper mode&quot;. I'm partially disabled and walking is tough. Needless to say that keeping up with it is not easy to say the least.<br /> <br /> I've had enough of this heap. Even though I can rebuild it to work properly, I flat out refuse to do so. I spent a lot of money and the damn thing should work without my having to do the engineering all over again! I'm going to go back to my trusty old 1988 Toro and put this thing up for sale. Let some other sucker go through these headaches. I'm done with this thing and with this company. Unless, they want to come out here with their so called &quot;engineer&quot; and buy back this disaster from me! I really want to have words with that idiot! <br /> <br /> There is no excuse for this. No excuse at all! IF I ever buy another new snow blower, it will not be from ANY of the MTD product lines. I'll spend the extra money for a Honda, instead!

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