How Much Weight Can a Farmall A Pull? Antique farm tractor in operation on the farm. Very old farm tractor in operation on the farm. #farmallfanatic #farmall #antiquetractors
Go little red go! I wasn't surprized at it pulling those trees. I've seen what Grandpa's Cub could pull. I need to have a step made for my 140. At 58, getting on and off isn't quite as easy as it used to be. I've also noticed when I put the cultivators on, they seem to be a lot heavier than they were at 15.😁 Keep those videos coming. I never get tired of seeing old Farmalls doing what they were built to do...RED POWER THEN. RED POWER NOW!
I really like that A, it iooks great in the field. I have a feeling we might see a lot more of it this summer.. I ll find one up here for my next restoration. Thanks from Georgian Bay.
Great video 👍 always believed the advances in agriculture started off small an got bigger as farms got bigger but back in their day these tractors were giants in their fields 💪💪
We use to pull wagons with produce! Watermelons, cantaloupes, cucumbers and tomatoes etc! Back to the packing house! Sprayed with it and mowed etc! Love the A’s
The A did a great job, very cool tractor. I wish we could buy non ethanol over here, at the moment out gas is 5% ethanol moving to 10% in September. Even now we have to put in loads of additives to keep the old equipment running good and so it lasts more than a day before it goes off lol
Ive always found it easier to put my foot next to the brake pedals and grab the steering shaft and climb on that way. At least when I could get around better. Love the purr of these old Farmalls. not often that I found them without the transmission whine though. Boom for that Farmall power
Nothing made today, will be around and working like these old Farmalls, I have a 53 Super A which I did a touch up, had a recent rebuild before I got it, but was in full patina. Will hold up a 4 ft bushhog for months and never leak down and no leaks to speak of other than a faulty O ring around the oil filter which parts are now here to repair. I repainted it with the original 53 IH color but hating body work, still have the grill and hood to finish. I did install the aftermarket step and it helps a bunch getting on. I do want to upgrade to the bench seat however.
My Super A pulls really well when I have ballast in the tires. When I lived in GA I used straight water. After 20 years never had it cold enough to freeze. Here In PA I drained the water and it doesn't pull worth a darn. Will have to find something to fill the tubes with. When I worked for the John Deere dealer in GA we used antifreeze. I am leaning more to using windshield washer fluid.
Back when my dad and I used to cut a lot of firewood at the farm for our house in town, we used our Super A to drag cut down oak trees out of the woods where they were easier to cut up and load on the truck (instead of cutting them up in the woods and carrying them out armload by armload)
Farmall A is the next one I want to add to my collection. I have a cub that I just restored and I’m working on a C right now. After I got the cub I was amazed at what it would pull for logs and they are only 8 hp. That A would pull a house off it foundation if you tried. Keep up the great videos.
I still feel that the letter series was one of the best tractor series ever built by Farmall and they continue to prove to be unstoppable even after some I’ve been in use for 70+ years. Let’s see these new tractors do that.
We bought a 1948 Super A on our farm back in 50 that’s what we replaced our Belgium’s with the only tractor my side of the family ever owned until as of a few years ago but the ol girl is still going strong, I don’t know what they built those tractors out of but they need to use that material again because that has done more than it ever should have on our farm and just kept going, I thank the Lord we got that tractor it’s been a real good one
I've never been a huge fan of the A's, compared to the M or H Farmalls, but you have yourself a beautiful example of an A! 'Looking forward to seeing what it's capable of... (a new Farmall A Fan)
A's are great little tractors. They're a pretty rare example of a tractor that came from the factory with all of the weight that they need for pulling.
Now that it got warmed up let's see a real challenge!! LOL My neighbor used to take his A to dead weight tractor pulls and compete in the 3,000 lbs class. It hung in there with any other tractor. Even got a few 3rd place trophies. Never ran out of power just broke traction.
I have 15 Farmall tractors. and Two JD tractors. one JD is a 2010 industrial Backhoe. The other JD is a 1969 301A. gas three cyl. its nice power steering easy to operate ect. Has a hyd lift mid mount scycle bar mower. Great for mowing and Raking Hay. However It doesnt get any traction. spins out very easily. Simply will not pull very heavy loads. My Super A with a souped up 200 engine will outpull it. I thought about filling the rear tires with beet juice. However I can just use a Farmall to pull stuff. Ive learned if I have a load of green oak firewood in the bed. My 2003 chevy 1/2 ton 4 wheel drive can skid a bigger log than a H Farmall.
My super A has cultivators on it and no draw bar so I don’t pull anything with it. But my little Allis Chalmers B really surprised me with what it will pull. I use it to pull the gravity wagons around when loading the beans in the semi truck. Right now it’s hooked to the spreader and hauling all of the manure
Supposed to look at a 1940. Model A tomorrow,, came across your videos trying to learn about the old tractor..you have any idea where I can buy a mower deck for it? Or attachments? Think I'm getting it a decent price..wondering what a new mower deck would cost and attachments...thanks for your time and any information,,web sites? I can't find anything..maybe not looking un the rite places.
My uncle uses my A to haul wood down the road easily 2500 lbs on the trailer and it doesn't break a sweat . Really surprised how much power that little tractor has
Dang it man. You should have hooked them both up at the same time. That A would have pulled them with no problem. I have personally pulled a lot larger trees than that with mine.
Hello put foot by break pedal's area then hand on steering wheel and up you go piece of cake .p.s. one time I was getting of the seat and went toward the right tire and slide on my back off the tractor with tread marks on my back .Not good .All ways go on by the break area and put hand on steering wheel and up you go safe way to do it .Cjd wash state .👍🇺🇸
The Super “A’s” had a piston alternative which unleashed a fair amount of extra power without really changing anything else except the cylinder sleeves. The Super A with the piston modification would give an 8N Ford a serious run for the money. I’m kind of wondering if your Super A engine had this modification done by a previous owner judging by how it pulled those heavy limbs like nothing. Some day, I would like to get my Super A back up and going. If you ever get a Woods L59 belly mower - You won’t need to fabricate a step. The right spindle cover works very nicely for a step.
Put Crazy D in the seat and it will never lose Traction! Years ago these guys killed a huge hog. And wanted to hoist it up in the air. they had a well pulley attached to a stout tree limb and a rope thru it attached to the hogs rear legs. They had a Burro in harness and hooked it to the rope. The burro got it partially off the ground and started slipping its hooves on the hard packed ground. A fat guy jumped on the burro and he regained traction and hoisted the hog up so they could butcher it.
I have a farmall cub that we would pull about 3-4 power line poles at once, and it didn’t even phase the tractor. It would pull almost as much as my Super C
.....she didn't even breath hard on that pull.....showing up big brothers H and M..... she'd a pulled em both.....!! "What's the Farmall Fanatic without a 24ft chain?"... I wouldn't touch that with a 10ft pole, but luckily I have an 11ft...
When I was a young buck, I cleared plenty of trailer lots by hand and I'm pretty sure I could have pulled that first little limb by hand with a breather every 50 ft, the bigger ones I could have only moved an inch at a time by snatching the chain as hard as I could, but then I don't have 18 horsepower. Now I'd have to stop every 50 ft. to take a breather just walking empty handed. Kids, don't smoke!
My A could pull 6 to 7 big cross ties before the right tire would start to spin. Never had it rare up on me, right tire would always spin .first. Called it Little Mighty, it always got the job done.
back in the late 70's I saw a super A pull a tractor with 2 bottom trip plow with the mole boards buried when the tractor died, hooked up and pulled until the plows traveled back up then pulled the tractor and plows 1/2 mile back to the farm
@@cbr1thou Pretty good all things considered. I had to replace the headgasket twice, the head studs needed sealing, I decided to replaced the magneto with a distributor, needed a carb, and it smokes, but all-in-all it's a good machine, pulls like it want's to be an H!!
I have done some things that shouldn’t have been done with my farmall a like pulling a 2 bottem plow or pulling trees down or dragging huge trees around it has power deceiving for it’s size.
9:29 Why the "throw away" Huskee lawn tractor and not an old Cub Cadet? They are very well built machines. Your little A is a pretty cool little tractor.
I have a 48 cub always impressed what an old 10 hp can do. Have a 2017 cub cadet with a 24 hp Koehler and can hardly mow grass higher than 8 inches. LOL
They are way stouter than they look. Apparently their weight and power is pretty evenly balanced out. If the right side stays planted, it'll make it go.
My dad has a 48 farmall super a unrestored he paid $1000 Australian for it then got wind of another farmall a came up for sale he paid $600 for that one and the bonus with that it had brand new tyres on the back worth more what he paid it so we swapped the back wheels from the a and put on the super a and then we took the a to a local plow day to sell had one guy looking at it hes was keen on a project tractor so dad sold the a for a $1000 and we delivered it to the guy the following week and that tractor was a runner
My grandfather plowed his garden with an A and a 2 bottom plow. The right rear tire was a four rib front tire from a combine...so it wasn't doing much more than holding up the tractor.
Ive got a Super C with the hyd lift and remotes and a homebuilt 3 point hitch. Its a really handy little tractor. Those 36 inch rear tires and rims are hard to find. Mine the calcium they put in the tires ate the rims and the tires where shot. I installed the tires wheels and center hubs from a VAC Case on mine. shorter tires makes it nose a bit higher than the rear. however it also effectively makes it lower geared and pulls better. A 200 will have a dipstick to check the oil. The C has petcocks on the oil pan. The super C,s and 200 have a water pump. the A's and B;s dont have a water pump. The belt pulley drive gears on the C and 200 are bevel cut . The A and B have straight cut gears. Only drawback is those disk brakes. They get glazed and dont work as well as the band type brakes.
Brother you keep buying all this red they will think you are a fireman farmer lol but I am seeing some green that isn't grass , kinda out growing your shed too I see !!
I was hoping you would hook on the big log .. I new it could do it but for you to realize what it can do will amaze you and it will be fun to see you try different things .. But never under estimate a farmall a .. It in the gearing