Nice. My Grandfather left me all the farm equipment when he passed away in 1985. I was 13 years old and never really understood why me. I did love him dearly and we always worked together on the farm. I immediately took to maintaining all the equipment and especially loved the little farmall cub that I learned it all on. Thanks Grandpa for making me who I am today.
I grew up on a farmall H and drove it for over 20 years, raking hay, pulling a cart with tools in it while working on fences, pulling a 2 ton grain cart, just light duty stuff like that, pulling a dead cow to the dead ditch. It never failed to start. These are some of the finest machines ever built in the world. Look at this one, 70 years old and still a ticking. How many machines made today will be working 70 years from now...probably not any due to all the electronics, computers, and sensors on them. Some tractors made during the mechanical age will probably still be working another 70 years from now. Fuel, air, and spark is what you need with them. This little tractor was short the fuel at the beginning of the video. Grandpa had to step in and take care of the problem...It's a good video and I enjoyed it.
Brings back some of my greatest memories of my papa. He had two and this brought a tear to my eye. What a great man he was and he loved those little tractors. He planted and canned so much and gave so much food away as that is what made him feel great. He loved to feed others and that he did with those little tractors. WOW great vid
The most painful part was looking at Grandpas arthritic hands. A lot Of work has been done with those hands and fingers. Very nice seeing a Cub at work.
Interesting video, when I was only 7 my grandfather left his Ferguson T20 to me, because he supposedly only had 3 months to live, 4 years ago! He is still alive and as proud of me for keeping the old Fergie going and working!
I saw that video before.. Now I want to watch again! Farmall Cub is very good to use big garden.. I miss farm culture.. I’m 77 due to spring.. video influence my feeling to farm… 😢
My dad bought one when I was very little, so I grew up with it. Dad used it to plow and disc our really large garden & brush hog the back of our place. I started just driving it around our place so when I started driving vehicles I had some basic skill. He had it 40 some odd years & it always started right up every time. I remember he eventually replaced each of the tires, but that was all. It was built in the late 40's & just shows how back then machinery was very basic, but built incredibly well to run just fine so many years. This video brings back a lot of great memories. Thank you.
The best thing about the cub was the mower. On a John Deere, of the same era, you had to keep looking back over your shoulder. Someone talked my neighbor into getting a Cub. He wasn't sure until he started mowing hay. He loved the idea that all he had to do was look down on the mower. He also liked it because he didn't have spin the engine over by hand. It was interesting because he had a dump rake,and no baler. I learned how to load a wagon with lose hay so it didn't fall off.
I wish I had my father and grandfather still living. I would get his Allis Chalmers CA 2 row cultivator tractor going again. I now have a Ford 1710 high crop offset with dual fertilizer side dressers and power steering. It has brakes that actually work. To control weeds without toxic herbicides I lay plastic mulch now-a-days with a Rain-Flow layer and transplant with their water wheel trans-planter. I have a Ferris polyplanter that plants seeds right through the plastic, cheaper seeds like cucumber, butternut squash, and melons. I still cultivate the plastic mulch, and spray as little as possible.
Reminds me of growing up, only we had a John Deere "L," pretty much the same idea but green. I like the way you do the garden--nice long rows; the heck with raised beds, wood-chip mulch, etc. Only difference is that I would grow tomatoes just by staking them up. Thanks for the pleasant memories. Everything I used when I was a teenager is now an antique. Me too!
What a great video. I learned to drive on this exact tractor model, probably around age 6 or 7. I remember hand-cranking it when I got older. And the remarkable ability to lift the front wheels right off the ground if I dropped the clutch too quickly.
My neighbor had one.....he had me look at it every now and then....I had a 1956 Minneapolis Moline 335 he got a kick out of watching me use.....I've also a 1948 CASE VAC which is awesome.
All the neighbors when I was a kid seemed to own a cub. A very versatile little tractor. I spent many springs plowing the garden with one, cutting hay and mowing the lawn. We had an 861 ford which is better suited for medium to light heavy farm work, things the cubs could not do.
This is a High Boy. There's a Low Boy version as well. I learned to drive on one just like this. Also learned to grind valves, set timing and tappet clearances. All the good stuff.
Very interesting, if you would use some conklin gear oil additive you could probably get rid of the gear noise the tractor is making. The additive will polish up the bearings making for less wear and tear on tractor.
He's doing a good job and It's harder than it looks. But, I don't let anybody drive my (1950) Farmall Cub wearing shorts and flip-flops! LOL! Also, your grandpa sure has taken good care of that beautiful old Cub. Sweet!!
Wow!! that was so awesome to watch an actual Farmall in work!! I have just finished drawing a Farmall 'A' series that belongs to a Pioneer Village that I'm doing a series on here in Queensland Australia!! :)Robbie
I Love such traditional use of machines.I cannot understand when people getting machines from her father or grandpa gives them away to gain money. There ist no respect of the work from past times. I believe that is a honour resting machines at home . So everybody reminds of people that ist gone. Her Love and results of her work are living further With best regards from Germany HP Simon
At one time this was how all corn fields were done . Because you could only run the cultivators until the corn got too tall weeds along with insects had a place to live and ring pheasants and quail had food. Now fields are just sprayed with roundup and planted. Quail and pheasants are long gone where I live.
Neat video. I like seeing the older equipment running. My garden beds are planted too intensely to use something like this. Wheel hoe for walk ways and a wire weeder for in bed weeding.
Joe Tiller . I just got a 49 pony which groaned like this, I changed out the rusty bearings inside the gearbox and diff, it's pretty quiet now, must have stood with rain water inside, gear stick rubber was gone.
At 4:55 it looks like the right front wheel skids , maybe the wheel bearings locking up. Deep south Homestead just did a complete video on Farmall Cub wheel bearings and other maintenance catch up items.
The one I have, you only pull the choke open for a split second then close it and it will crank right up. I'm trying to figure out what's missing from under your gas tank..edit.. now I realize your doesn't have hydraulics lol, the pump is what's missing.
1:02 about the caps they are not illegal I think, they were designed differently because people were putting gas on the fires and they would get on the nozzle and blow up
Yup. In fact the brake pedal/s can be operated separately so you can stop the inside wheel for exactly that purpose. It also helps if you start to spin a wheel, to slow down the one that's slipping and give the one with traction more power.
He wasted a lot of time going over the same areas twice. I don't know why on his return runs his left side cultivators were going over areas that was already done. It would have been faster if on his return runs he did one row further to the left. The way he was doing it, each time he drove back he was only cultivating one extra space between the rows. If he came back one row further to the left, then each time he drove back he would be cultivating two extra rows.
Hey, Grandpa, does the kid irritate you the way he does things, or what, LoL? Very cool tractor, hard to be-leave it only has 15 HP even if it has that much.. All Farmall tractors in the late 50's to middle sixties were tough almost bullet proof tractors.
Hi, sir could you give me some advice which tractor is best to fit for doing farming with 10 acres for planting corn seeds and cleaning weeds in spaces of corn rows and hot pepper? Because I have used a Walk behind tractor for 3 years but the tiller is very slow to finish only w acre per day and too work for a Walk behind tiller (craftsman rear-tine tiller 28" ) u r a farmer, u must have a good experience for many 🚜, so plz give me some advice what kind and size of tractor u should have it to do my work
I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not-but that’s definitely a cultivator, and the feds passed legislation over a decade ago banning the manufacture of cans with vents.
That is honestly idiotic to drag that break all the way around at the ends. Hate to sound negative, but good lord, you’ll be done in 15 mins, not 100 acres to do. I guess it’s yours though. Real simple to skip rows and turn wide.
+D Fuller in running condition they usually run about $1500 or so if you're not going to do much with it most people buy it as an inexpensive wide area lawn mower with the Woods belly mower kit available for it, till small gardens and snow plowing; much like the same reason you would buy a Kubota BX or a John Deere 1025; just to step up from a garden tractor. The other drawback is good luck finding implements for them, because they do not have a standard 540 category 1 PTO rear implements are far and few versus any other tractor if you need a box blade or rotary cutter you can run to your farm dealer and buy one and you're sure it fits, with these you're stuck praying to the craigslist gods hoping that you can find what you need because nobody makes anything for them. To be quite honest with you these are cool little tractors but honestly you're better off getting a Farmall H or Ford 8N, tons of aftermarket parts for either of them, relatively easy to work on and much easier to sell when the time comes.
I hear ya. I felt like an idiot after saying that. I was thinking of not screwing up Grandpa's lawn but realized right after it was a pointless concern... Kinda like a backseat driver, sometimes I foolishly think I can do better.
im confused. im not a farmer, but arnt you supposed to cultivate before you plant your crops? I mean, using the corn tassles cant be the proper tool to wipe the greese of the bottom of your tractor.
Funny to think most of these never made more than 15 horse power on a good day and did a great job... You can't buy a riding mower with less than less than 15 horse power for perspective.
If you want to talk perspective. That 15 hp lawnmower you speak of is about 5 hp in perspective lol. The cubs hp to weight ratio would pull a 20 hp lawnmower forward backward and sideways anywhere , anyday. I know, ive done it. My brother bought a brand new shiny 24 hp wheelhorse yrs ago and was bragging too much, 15 mins later, he was quiet. Hp is measured totally diff now, these were when hp was real hp of what it actually would pull off drawbar, now days that high hp lawnmower is rated of engine rpm. The higher they make motor rev, the higher hp they put on the sticker lol. Fake hp is what it is.
@@michaelcollins1899 Thats true the horse power was rated at the drawbar LOL I bet many people don't even know what the drawbar is. My father had a John Deere garden tractor with I think 18 horse power it was a while ago but I think it was the 140. It had a blade and 5 ft deck and also a pto unit with a 3 point hitch but it wasn't able to pull as much as my grandfathers old cub could. I don't think it would have had the power to the wheels to pull that cultivator even if it was high enough to clear the corn . It's easy to see why small farms used them that cultivating was only a couple of minutes compared to hours of hoeing .
