The Cub Gets Tested! 

Very nice! If your cubs sat for a while before you got them its a good idea to pop the gear shifter off your cubs and check the front and rear bearing lube passages. Both of mine were clogged up with gunk, and it ended up costing me a set of bearings. With the shifter off you can see the passages and the lube holes that need to stay clear, would make a good prevention video and might save someone a set of bearings.

Another cub-positive channel made a few 2x2 shelves in his barn to store all the bits and pieces for every Cub attachment, shelf for cultivator, one for planter, etc. Others I have seen make a short pallet bin and then stack them. Maybe helpful. Cub can be a swiss army knife but there's nothing to keep all the parts gathered in your pocket.

Got to love the language in those old manuals. "average soil conditions" or my favorite "2-3 plow tractor in most soil conditions".

Garden tractor or tobacco patch tractor for sure. Most everyone used then to cultivate tobacco fields back in the day. Leave plowing for the Bigger Boys.

Like you said, be perfect for gardens or small plots. Probably not ideal for your fields. But hey, at least you had fun and got to turn some ground!

You had to work for that!! Enjoyed seeing it the field and hearing your thoughts about how it did.

I use emery cloth to find polish shafts, paint can also be hard to remove, cozmolene or high temperature anti seize. Try giving that moldboard a shot of that PB Blaster or torpedo juice in the can. A super shiny slick moldboard will slice right through the soil.

Excellent video Gino :) also learning experience on each tractor farmers have and got tested out too ! I know my late Dad , Uncle Bill discussing about there plow experience in small to medium to big hp tractor plus on plowing or any feilds work to ! Also sometimes just Lol and said boom 💥 we did it!

She's having a hard time flipping the dirt you better get the big tractor

He had to show his big Farmall brothers in the shed that he could do it also 😁keep crushin it FF💥🇺🇸💥

Big gardens is where the Cub shines. A neighbor had one with the mower like yours and a 1 bottom for his big garden. I believe he had a small pull type disc and a spring tooth harrow also.

My cub plows a 50’ by 70’ garden makes me feel like a real farmer lol and have 12 laying hens in my small barn. Now thinking of putting up a hoop greenhouse!

I'm glad you got to get some plowing done ! Sounds like you were a little disappointed in the way it plowed . I was checking how wet my land was before watching this and I'm hoping by Thursday to try some plowing with the M . Thanks for sharing and have a great evening !

Crank down the leveling crank some more on the back so it's running level with the right wheels in the furrow and work you draft control lever until it goes in good then level it out and it should plow fine.

That cub did a great job, one bottom plowing. Yeah, I'd wait for the ground to get a little bit more dryer it did do a great job on plowing go red power is number one 👍

It's good to see the cubb in action....Gives me a better idea of what's needed....

Kinda what I thought would happen. I knew it could do it...I never doubted that, but wasn't as positive on how well it would.

When I plowing I love the dirt to turn great that way don't have to disked much plant quick. Boom 👍

I'm definitely watching this again when I put my fast hitch on my cub.

Hello Gino looks strong enough to me. Think it worked great. Need to put your colter on makes a better cut would turn over nicer. My opinion have a great day

Great video , those pins do tend to walk away 😁 cubby did great 🇺🇸

Pro tip the trailer hitch on the fast hitch can be turned around and pin reinstalled so you don’t loose the hitch.

The first tractor I plowed with was a 1948 cub, then 15 min later, I was plowing with a farmall 666 with a 5 bottom plow.

It's about time you clean up the tractor shed

So funny the comment you take the hitch off the tractor you lose it. That field the horse would need to take a break after it reached each end. If I had an acre or less garden I would have every attachment to use that cub to plow and fit ground. We had a 5 foot pull disc and would finish the ground with an old rusty metal bed spring for a drag. I think the coulter would have helped to cut the grass a bit to keep it from building up on the beam. It was starting to shine up pretty nice. I liked the old iron with attachments. You go to the shows you only see a pristine tractor with no idea what would fit on it.

You ever planning on doing a full restoration on a farmall?

I’m probably singing to the choir but. If you have a real gravely field and get her to shine up I can believe how nice mine works Great video

Nice!

I agree I have used a one bottom mounted plow on Massey Harris Pony got about the same result it works but not like using a bigger plow or tractor.

It's amazing how these tractors refused to die sad thing is future generations will not say the same about current equipment

Another great action video thanks. I think if the moboard gets shiny you will see better results but yes probably more for garden area type plowing. I used to be a big fan of PB blaster and then I came across a product called Freall works really well for me but sometime back I was at NAPA Store and got some penetrate fluid they suggested and now it might be even better. I need to put one of my two way plows on my cub and plow my garden. Then put my disk and disk it might just go straight to disk not sure. Just got it painted last fall not really excited about scratching it up o well

Hopefully Snow is DONE for this season!

Fiddy fi cubinator 🚨#800👍🍻

This kind of plowing is so much better😂

Ground too wet and plow not set up correctly. Or I should say fast hitch. On the depth adjuster assembly, needs to be set lower in the flat bar adjustment. That allows plow to go deeper

If at first you don't succeed keep trying I'm sure the little cub will master the plough 💪👍 never having seen a fast hitch apart from on your channel there seems to be a lot of possible adjustments that can be used Red Power 💥💪👍

Still a great video 📹

That stile pin you took out was the oem pin they were them wearing pins

With as much aggregate as you have in your soil, I was quite surprised to see that the plow did not scour quickly like I thought it would.

Looks like the hogs been rootin in that field. I think You need to put that coulter on and let them hydraulics down.

Not sure if it will make a different but I believe on the lower shaft on your fast hitch (the one you removed to free up) the cast pieces on the end are upside down. Might be throwing off the draw bar pull angle. I could send you a picture of mine with the plow on it but I don't know if I can on here. Great videos!

Try breaking it open with the little genius and see if it works better when it climbs down in a deeper dead furrow. I’ve plowed with the cub and even with the moldboard sporting some rusty crusty, it still will bury itself after the dead furrow gets deep enough. Great video! Makes me wish the ground was a touch drier so I can play too. I’m switching to no till on the bulk of my acreage but I still need to smell dirt every year. When are you going to hook up all the cubs together and pull the little genius with the whole fleet of cubs?

Good honest review. Did you notice any front end lifting?

Red Power 💪🏼❤️💥 all day 💥 every day 💥

Well Gino talkin about soil conditions we plowed here two weeks ago. Ground worked once last week we planted today. By the time I got the fertilizer home and got going we only got about 5 hours of drilling in, however that only leaves 3 acres for tomorrow. Are current conditions are what I would call better than optimum right now if anything it's a little too dry.

My old a and the one bottom did good but you you can’t beat a m or h makes the job a lot quicker

The depth lever has adjustable holes down where it fastens to hitch .put in bottom hole and tip of plow will sink into ground. You will change your Mind guaranteed. Turn adjustment in back will determine how much it rolls ground over . 😊

You do need to have that cutler on there and look like from where Iam at about three inches deeper

The CUBINATOR is going to plowtown!

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Put the coulter on, level the plow, and go a bit deeper. You’ll be happier. Not working the Cub yet. I use 1st gear and it makes the tractor work. The H will be twice as fast; twice the bottoms!

I can't hear you talkin about the plow the engine is making too much noise maybe check the oil

Seemed like your plow needs to be adjusted another 1 or 2 inches deeper.

You won't be happy tol you get it done.

Cut a coil or two off that Gov spring and throw the power to it lol .

St put a 7 16th bolt in the hole dont forget to move the rim inside the center

Would a coating of slip plate help that slide better next time?

A coulter is good on heavy residue fields

You don't have it set right. It will roll 12 inches of dirt with the best of them.

Getting it done on the 55!!

You are a farmall jedi.

I got a question. Where the pin was that somebody jerry rigged on the fast hitch.... Is there no grease fitting in that area so that bar can slide back and forth easier?

Coulter makes it easier to plow makes a difference

Man the auction I went to the other day 4 bottom Plows where going dirt cheap 1 of them sold for $85 and others two sold for $125 and they where heavy duty and in great condition don't know why they went cheap but the 1 2 and 3 bottom went higher and I don't understand that

The fitty fave

Getting ready to purchase a Cub with a horizontal exhaust... Only planning on using it to cultivate. Anyone think the horizontal exhaust would be hard on crops as I cultivate? Is it much of a task in changing over to vertical thru the hood?

it'll be a while before we get the A hooked up.. lol

One you don't have it set right. You really do need the culture in front. It's not flipping the furrow properly.

The hitch just turnit around and put the pin back in

I'd slow down and adjust the crap out of it. It looked like it was trying. No match for the H though.

really the original sub compact but i ran a super c and it would fit better than the cub and as for plowing my farmall friend a 5488 with a 6 bottom oliver plow we rolled dirt for sure then team it with the 1086 on the 4 bottom super chief we turned acres under

Don't know why I like ur Cub & hate the H

We plow in heavy shell ground

The 14in with coulter.....

And one more thing to my other comment a little slower would turn it over a lot better

Get some good Nickel anti-seize marine grade nickel

How many of us have measured with a dollar bill 🖐🏼

14 inch go big or go home

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