My grandfather bought one of the very first one of those in his little town in Minnesota back in 1948. As he was driving it home, neighbors driving by would slow down and shout, "Ray, go see if you can get your horses back!" Two years later, there were another dozen in town. For vegetable farmers, it was just about the best machine you could buy. He still owned it as late as 1995.
They were way better than Farmall's because they had over head valves. Farmall tractors had flat head engines and would foul the spark plugs in no time. I have a CA, a excellent two row cultivator tractor. I recently bought a Ford 1710 high crop offset tractor, it has two transmissions in it. The CA gas engine has way more horsepower than the Subura diesel in the Ford.
In addition to having 50% more displacement in the CA engine than your Ford's compact Shibaura diesel, the CA tested out having more power in general. Interestingly, the CA's drawbar rating was just 18hp, but it tested at nearly 23. When's the last time you bought anything that the manufacturer UNDER promised and OVER delivered? I used to have a Farmall A. I liked it but its ignition was balky and I'm not clever enough to make sense of it.
I would like to find a A-C G cultivator. It is hard to find one in good shape with plenty of cultivator parts with it. I was at the Pennsylvania farm show today and bought 6 raffle tickets on a Cub with the snow plow attachment. I'd like to win it.
This was the first tractor that dad taught me to drive solo in the barnyard (because it was low and slow, and easy to stop if I got in trouble). Since the gear pattern is labelled "L-1-2-3" , when you mean by "second" you mean gear 2, but 3rd speed?
2nd gear by the gear pattern (not counting low). My garden is on a slight incline. Plowing up the grade I usually use first gear, plowing down the grade I can use 2nd gear.
looks like the ol tractor does this job very well, , this is the first time I saw a plow on a G, , you have it set right, and good operator skills make the garden look very nice., Fine Job.
Very cool. Can you raise the plow as you come out of the furrow and keep right on rolling? Or do you have to stop to lift the mold board every time? That seems like it might be hard on the clutch.
I did make short videos but not tech savvy enough to edit and make it into a video. My son's girlfriend was going to do it, but as of now, it did not get done. I'll try to apply some pressure, ha! Hopefully I'll get it posted soon.
$1,800 for the tractor and another $100 (I think) for the plow. Bought it around 1986 at a public farm sale. My Dad restored it about 2 yrs. after I bought it.
