Cub auger more pictures

grandpa Love · Mar 25, 2019

This looks like something a fence installer needs! Hope to find one to repair and get going again.

Quality of pictures ain't great. Just screen shot em.

larry@stinescorner · Mar 25, 2019

do this instead? Use the Ford?
3 pt for one of the Fords

Mike M · Mar 25, 2019

I could not read the fine print. I wonder if that offers a reverse ?
The best post hole augers are usually hydraulic driven and offer a reverse so they don't get stuck. Most people anymore mount one to the front of a skid steer.

Traditional Farmer · Mar 25, 2019

That'd be pretty handy in your line of work,put the hole exactly where you want it.

wjytexas · Mar 25, 2019

At one of our shows in 2014

grandpa Love · Mar 25, 2019

Larry,we keep talking about one of those. Just haven't jumped yet!

Traditional Farmer · Mar 25, 2019

Come on up I'll give you a good deal on a 3pt Ford post hole digger.

Adrian Billheimer · Mar 25, 2019

Hey Grandpa, I think if you found one of those, it would be more of historical value than working it, I say this partially due to not knowing if it has specially made parts that would wear out and not be able to be replaced.

Other wise, good luck finding one.

Are you still thinking about a trip north this June?

rrlund · Mar 25, 2019

There was a guy here killed using one of those two weeks ago. Apparently his wife didn't know how to shut it down or she couldn't bring herself to do it. They said he was still going around when rescue got there 15 minutes later.

RBnWA · Mar 25, 2019

Need a case Larry. Ford wouldn t handle the auger. hehe. RB

grandpa Love · Mar 25, 2019

The rpru trip is still a possibility. You maybe right about a working post digger. But would be awesome at shows.

Goose · Mar 25, 2019

"Most people" don't have a skid loader.

Mike M · Mar 25, 2019

The ones in the fencing business do.

Gary Mitchell · Mar 25, 2019

The inventor of the pictured digger was Lloyd Grosshart who farmed and resided along the Marais des Cygnes River a few miles north of Pleasanton, Ks. It was manufactured by J.R. Prewitt and Son's foundry, (later bought out by Belsaw), in Pleasant Hill, MO, my home town.

"J. R. Prewitt in Pleasant Hill, Missouri founded J. R. Prewitt and Son Machine shop in the mid 1920s. They went on to develop the Belsaw planer in 1929, the first of a product line that they would expand and continue to this day as the Hawk Wood Working Tool line. J. R. Prewitt and his wife had 14 children, seven boys and seven girls, all of whom were active in the company. After J. R. Prewitt?s death in 1951, control of the company passed to his youngest son, Ralph, who managed the company for the next 20 years until its sale to Verle L. Rice in 1972."

I was well acquainted with Lloyd's son Frank Grosshart who operated the family farm until his death in 2016. For years Frank would make the trip to Pleasant Hill to stock up on parts for the digger. He sold them from his farm. I'd be surprised if his widow, Mary, didn't have some in a barn somewhere. gm

john *.?-!.* cub owner · Mar 25, 2019

(quoted from post at 08:12:15 03/25/19) I could not read the fine print. I wonder if that offers a reverse ?

he one I saw did not offer a reverse, you had to use a wrench or bar and turn the pto backwards. That may seem like more than a person could normally do, but I use a large pipe wrench to turn a large round baler backwards and unwrap it when it was wrapped up.

Goose · Mar 25, 2019

How many people on this forum are in the fencing business?

I'm in the auto body business. I have an air file. How many people not in the auto body business have an air file?

SVcummins · Mar 25, 2019

Is it the old 903 ford

Spook · Mar 25, 2019

I?ve got a 3 point auger, but I am very careful, it scares me a bit. But I can put a hole in in a minute, I usually work it by myself, I never get off the tractor, that makes it much safer. I use a 12 inch auger, it makes it easier, you don?t need as much precision in your placement. I go and mark my potholes, then run the tractor right down the line, popping a hole in at each mark. In real tight clay, I take it down a couple inches at a time, woodpeckering my way down.

showcrop · Mar 25, 2019

(quoted from post at 12:26:41 03/25/19) How many people on this forum are in the fencing business?

I'm in the auto body business. I have an air file. How many people not in the auto body business have an air file?

Goose, I have an air file, not that it has done me much good.

grandpa Love · Mar 25, 2019

We use this auger for all our jobs. Can use on residential / fresh sod. Can't do that with skid steer or 3 point auger. Also frees up tractor for pulling a supply trailer.

Hydraulic and reverse!

C.Amick · Mar 25, 2019

The PTO on a Cub turns backwards from most other tractors. It must have had some sort of added gear box because the augers are all identical.

john *.?-!.* cub owner · Mar 26, 2019

(quoted from post at 20:31:32 03/25/19) The PTO on a Cub turns backwards from most other tractors. It must have had some sort of added gear box because the augers are all identical.

rewitt made a reducer/reverser that bolted onto the rear over the pto, and provided the proper speed and direction. It also had a standard pto shaft for the output rather than the little one cubs used. Those Prewitt reverser/ reducers, if complete with mounting plate are worth as much as a cub

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