The Farmall Cub...the little tractor that could and did. My grandpa had a 1955 model and it was the first tractor I learned to use. I remember well the first time I used it. Daddy was going to cultivate grandma's garden. He pulled the cub in a pea row and lowered the cultivators and told me to get on and plow that row. When I got to the other end of the row, I stopped and raised the cultivators and when I looked back, I knew I had graduated!
Mark, thanks for this, this is great. I've taken a liking to the Cub lately while re-reading 18 years worth of Antique Power magazine, like so many US tractors, I've never seen a Cub. But it's morning here and I'm supposed to be making my hardworking wife's coffee right now. Ooooh, that belly-mounted gear, I never did any of that, we didn't use that on our farming.
@@stewartfenton7660 You do know there's a pause button...I know how you feel. I have a hard time pulling myself away from some of these videos. I always have to see one more. The cub was introduced in 1947 as a row crop tractor for small farmers with farms less than 40 acres, truck garden farmers or for larger farms where they needed an additional but smaller tractor. They were the second Farmall that was built with the off set "cultivision" design for 1 row work unlike the larger Farmalls that were built for 2 or 4 row cultivation. The first was the Farmall A which was introduced about 1939 along with the B, H and M. In 1948, they introduced the Super A which was basically the A with the hydraulic "touch control" lifts unlike the A which had hand lifts. They had a larger engine than the Cub. In about 1954, the Super A was replaced but the Farmall 100 which had the 1 point fast hitch and was a 2 plow tractor. In about 1956, the 100 was replaced by the 130. In 1959, they introduced the Farmall 140 which was built until 1979 along with the smaller Cub. My tractor is a 1963 140 that daddy bought second hand in 1976. For my money, the 140 was the best small farm tractor ever built. Like the previous tractors I have mentioned, It was a 1 row off set design tractor and like the 100 and 130, it had the 123 cubic inch engine. My old 140 still runs great and does everything I need a tractor to do. Both daddy and I used it to raise tobacco with and I use it now to vegetable garden with. I also use it for scraping the driveway when it snows. Getting back to the Cub, when they first came out, they were very popular in the Rosebud community of Stokes County, N.C. where my grandparents lived. Everyone grew tobacco and just about all of them got a cub. Believe it or not, I had a great aunt who had a cub and farmed with it while her husband worked in a store in Walnut Cove. All of this generation grew up on tobacco farms and all plowed behind mules since they were big enough to hold a plow. Those cubs probably looked like big tractors to them after following a mule all those years. They were and still are great little tractors!
@@stewartfenton7660 That was so you could look down at what you were cultivating. International Harvester called it "cultivision". Utilility tractors had pretty much all rear mounted implements where as the row crop tractors had both front and rear mounted equipment. This way, you could cultivate close to crops without damaging them
@@MarkWYoung-ky4uc the front mounted machines, I know it, I just never had a chance to do it. I still regret that I saw a nice Allis B with belly mower, at a steam rally in the nineties. It was on display in the line, but also on sale at 400 pounds, don't know what that was in dollars at the time, but a good price IF it was as good as it looked. We had a lot of English made B's around when I was a kid, but I never drove one, though my dad did for a short while. I couldn't come up with the cash right then (always overextended on old stuff) and I still want that tractor. I could multiply that 400 a few times now.
I bet they used DDT to kill the bugs too. LOL, but in all seriousness. tractors built to last for generations not like the throw away junk being made in the past 4 decades. I guess this is one machine the Japanese or Chinese missed out on copying.
Actually having watched the original advertisements from them, this was the original "hokey music" predominantly used by many filmmakers of the era..... Even the ads in theaters of the time had the same "orchestra" type tunes..... Oh and the military was no different on their "promo" films. What do you expect "Welcome to the Jungle?"
100% It’s not needed at all, no whatever is muting large hunks of the audio ruins it. Even if the old audio was scratchy it’d be better to at least hear it in its raw form.
@ArmpitStudios ...dude you don't know what you're talking about....every film and ad from the 40's to the 60's had that hokey annoying classical background music, including the films in school and the military.
