having some fun

larry@stinescorner

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I didnt feel like watching tv tonight,plugged in Cub cultivating a garden.i watched many u tube videos of cubs cultivating,and hilling potatoes,etc... It was lots of fun for me to see some gardens being worked.i have been wanting a cub for many years,,now I want one even more,,,lol
 
Hi Larry, I agree with you on watching people working the soil with Cub's and Farmall A's. Lot's of enjoyment. Cheers, Murray
 
The 1949 Cub was my dad's first tractor that he purchased in 1950. He had cultivators, plows, grader blade, sickle bar mower, and corn planter for it. We used the sickle bar mower and cultivators the most. It was his only tractor until around 1971. Now I have his Cub, plus one that I purchased. If you have only one tractor, though, the Super A is probably a better choice.
 
This is an old pic, probably '72 or '73. Gravely with rotary plow.
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Have you considered an AC model G. Those look like a blast to drive. Srems like a great cultivator tractor. No experience with one.
 
Larry,
Are you talking about the old farmall Cub? My dad had one. It was offset to the left, so driver sat on right side with clear view of one row cultivator.

Didn't allis have a version for truck farming? Can't remember what it's called.

I think I read about a year ago where two retired business executives were going to manufacture an allis clone in Cuba because of the small truck farmers.

I know a man who had an old cub. He had 6 different attachments for it. He bought it for $600. Got it running and sold it for $2200.
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I have one of those that I used to do the neighbors big garden. That thing is an absolute digging fool! Makes a beautiful seed bed at one shot. Full dig setting is almost 9.5 inches deep and about as wide.ZAP! By the way, there was a post hole digger for this thing. Center shaft is like 18 inches long and you could get bigger blades. Could plant bushes with it. It is a hexagonal shaft and I guess you could make a longer one. Trouble would be getting that puppy out of the hole.
 
Forgot. The Allis Chalmer version of a CUB is a model "B". Now there is a real truck farm model you can look up and that is a model "G". Another name for it is a skeletal. Little tiny 4 cylinder engine is on the back of the machine. EVERYTHING is hanging out in the breeze. This is the machine those guys have been trying to export or build in Cuba. Neat looking little toy.
 
Yes, the cubs do a lot of work for there size. I plant and cultivate with them. They made almost every attachment you can think of for them. I even mow my lawn with one. I might sell a couple of them in the spring if you are interested. Come on out and drive one around before you buy one to see if you like it. Here is my '57 cub planting corn.

Kirk
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my nephew has a quick hitch cub planter he bought at an auction,brand new never used,he wants to give it to me,he didnt pay much for it
 
I've owned and used both while I like AC tractors the Cub in my opinion is a better for garden use than a G,in addition to being cheaper to buy parts and equipment are a whole lot easier to come by for the Cub and if you get one with the 1 point fast hitch it really makes it a great little garden unit.Southern New Jersey should have lots of Cubs around.
 
The Allis Chalmers B is twice the tractor the Cub is. The AC G is roughly the same power as the Cub, 10 hp.
 
(quoted from post at 02:18:44 01/18/17) Forgot. The Allis Chalmer version of a CUB is a model "B". Now there is a real truck farm model you can look up and that is a model "G". Another name for it is a skeletal. Little tiny 4 cylinder engine is on the back of the machine. EVERYTHING is hanging out in the breeze. This is the machine those guys have been trying to export or build in Cuba. Neat looking little toy.

The allis chalmers model b is not the allis version of the cub! As was already stated the allis b was twice the tractor a cub was with over twice the horsepower. Secondly the b came out around 10 yrs before the cub. IH and others paid allis chalmers a ton of $ in royalties for stealing the torque tube design and using on their tractors. The allis model b was more comparable the the international a, which IH also paid royalties to allis for because of copying the torque tube.
 
Back in1948 my uncle borrowed a Cub from the IH salesman to cultivate the first time through the corn so our Farmall H could be used in the hay making. What a boring job.....55 acres one row at a time at about 1 1/2 miles an hour.......I went to bed with that little Cub droning in my ears. It was a lot easier job though than running the H with those &@$??@@ steerable model 221 cultivators, I hated that job!
 
just have to go get one then, get enough attachments that silly ford might get left in the shed for good...


Lets see...CL....Pa.....Philly(just a big city)....Allenttown(top smaller town on list)....Farmall cub....Yep few out that way, and quite a few attachments and parts as well....get out that checkbook Larry and go buy one...
 
We bought a MH Pony in 1951 when I was 16. A little more power than a Cub, bigger front wheels and it didn"t look like it was going to tip over. I traded it off for a bigger 8N but 3 years ago I bought another Pony for a backup mower. Doesn"t mow as good as I remember so I put a 6 HP Briggs 6/1 on the drawbar for live PTO. Mows good now but not as easy to get on now as it was in "51.
 

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