Super A or Allis Chalmers G

I'm curious. If you could choose one just to cultivate a garden or two, which would you choose?

IHC Farmall BN B Super A The B & BN have pnumatic lift or could be fitted with a hydraulic pump to lift and hydraulic cylinder the cultivators. If you could find one [BN] your turning radius is short and easy since it is a narrow front end.

An H it already has the hydraulic on it and the lift for the cultivator. They can be had in both 2 or 4 row models.

A super A would have hydraulics. It also has 3 times the power and utility of the G. It can do work out of the garden as well. More parts, more of them made. Jim

THAT would be my preference too

No comparison whatever.
Super A is 100 times more tractor than a G is.
Spent a lot of time on a G.
Hated it.

Not a good comparison. The A is several times more tractor than the G. How large are the gardens and how much yard around them? A G can fit into some real tight spaces and do accurate cultivation.

There's 3, probably around 6,000 square feet each.

One major problem is there aren't any H's near by and I don't have the ability to haul any long distances.

Super A has hydraulics,both are one row which is what you'll need in a garden,can't imagine using a big clumsy H in a garden.All sorts of attachments are readily available for the Super A,plus a Super A will probably cost about 1/2 what you can buy a G.

I have owned both ... Super A all day long. Or a Cub! I wasn't a huge fan of the allis G.

If it's a garden and not a field the G would probably work nicely. The A is more like a tractor and will do other stuff better. The G was made for gardens and cultivating. Even even at commercial scale though.

Drive it, they have a great road speed. Drove 120 miles one day on mine, 40 to get to the ride, 40 on the ride, and 40 home.

Entirely depends on the garden and what you are wanting to raise. The Farmal would be good for a single row of sweet corn or something like that in 30 inch or wider rows. Now something like lettuce if you want to plant 20 inch rows would do 2 rows or possibly 4 rows at a time. The G gan have a 2 or 4 row vegitable planter that the implements would be hard to find. The narrow tires on the G would be able to work 15 inch rows. I never heard of a Farmall like that you could get a vegetable planter of cultivator, a Cub yes, a A or Super A now. So what type of gardening you want to do is what would make the difference. And a t tactor like the Farmall A or Super a or a 140 was never sold in my area as single row 40 inch rows for field work and no body around here ever bought a single row tractor for the simple reason of the single row cultivators in the field. Now the B or BN for 2 row cultivators yes. Only a collector around here would want a Farmall A or SA. And the G could also have had a single row for wider spsced crops. For a garden I would go with the G but for what around here would have been called a truck farm so the Faermal would be larfe enought to due the tillage work where the G is not big enough for that. But around here it would have been instead of a Farmall it would have been a John Deere M or 40 or 420. Only Farmall A or SA I ever saw was at a show featuring IHC.

I would recommend a farmall 140. It has hydraulic lift and pto. You can widen the front axle and flip the rear wheels so that you can cultivate 2 rows and also straddle a row of plastic mulch.... if you go that route. In Ohio, 140's cost less than the others. I have 2 of the 140's.

I'm in Tennessee. There's a G relatively close and a Super A really close. I haven't seen a 140 locally.

Don't have input on the question, but wanted to note that some AC G's did have hydraulics. Our first tractor was a beautiful G with full set of cultivators that were lifted hydraulically. Dad got rid of it because it was too small to pull the potato digger. Turned out that the AC B he bought next was also too light. We ended up using the neighbor's Farmall H and stradding the rows between the narrow front and the rear tires.

Tim

I see you have options for B, Bn, H , 140 and cub. Back to your original question I would choose the Super A.

I had a IH Super A with a full set of scufflers when I did market gardening. The Super A has a very reliable IH engine, and parts are readily available. If I remember correctly the AC model G had a Wisconsin engine. And parts for those are as rare as rocking horse turds now. So I would definitely go with the Super A. I must add that scuffling the market garden crops was just about my favourite tractor related job. So satisfying to see those clean rows. I had 6 sweeps, and planted on 4 foot row width. Once the plants like tomatoes and sweet corn got well established, you could go fairly fast and throw a lot of dirt between the plants , smothering out weeds.

A Super A for me for sure!