MH16 vs IH Cub

corynick · Jan 3, 2023

Good day everyone, looking for some opinions.

There are two tractors for sale in my local area. One is a Massey Harris 16 Pacer (50's), the other is a International Cub (70's).

I like them both and they are both around the same money.

The Pacer is running ready to go
The Cub needs some odds and ends and has been sitting the owner has had it running but not recently.

History of the pacer is unknown
History of the Cub is known (Low hours, two owners)

The pacer is slightly larger and heavier than the Cub

Both have oem hydraulics

Parts are virtually non existent or very pricey for the Pacer (Head gasket for example) since they were only made for 3 years

Parts for the Cub are cheap and plentiful

Aesthetically I love the Pacer and being a bit bigger may be more useful, but common sense is telling me NO, buy the International

What do y'all think?

47fivewindow · Jan 3, 2023

I would like to know what you want to use it for. The Cub
is a nice garden tractor. The Pony would get a lot more
attention in a parade.

Richard G. · Jan 3, 2023

For a worker, I would get the Cub.

corynick · Jan 3, 2023

I don't plan to really do anything with it other than maybe mount an ATV snow blade to it to play in my driveway and take it to parades and shows. It's actually a Pacer, little bigger than the Pony but looks the same

This post was edited by corynick on 01/03/2023 at 06:40 pm.

47fivewindow · Jan 3, 2023

Get them both. LOL I have no experience acquiring Massey
Harris parts, but I have gotten some Continental engine
parts a number of years ago. You seem to know what your
up against so, which one calls you the loudest?

Moonlite37 · Jan 4, 2023

Buy neither one and look for a Super A Farmall about the same price and much tougher and powerful

grandpa Love · Jan 4, 2023

Get the cub for working around
your place. Buy the pacer if it's
cheap. They made very few of
them. Advertise it on a Massey
Harris Facebook group and find
the collector who 'has' to have
it. Easy to make some money off
it. The cub equipment is easy
to find and they are easy to work
on. We love our fleet of cubs.
On a side note..... We bought a
pacer a while back. Guy drove
about 800 miles round trip to buy
it. It was ugly and barely
running. He had to have it.

Jim in NC · Jan 4, 2023

The later cubs with the square front and painted yellow and white were rated at 12hp. Several local
tobacco farming families used them. They were capable of doing more work than the earlier models
that were rated at 9 hp. Given that plus the parts availability and the wide variety of implements
for cubs would make me choose a cub. Grandpa's suggestion about the MH makes sense.

Traditional Farmer · Jan 4, 2023

To use I'd take the pacer

Blackhole49 · Jan 4, 2023

For this use, get the Pacer.

Blackhole49 · Jan 4, 2023

From someone who owns both, if going this route, forget the A, get an 8N.

jdr1943 · Jan 5, 2023

Best thing about a cub you have a place to sit and they don't fart in your face.

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