Brought 57 cub home today

[5030]

We have good friends that live in West Islip on the island. Just getting there is something we don't enjoy at all. Used to deliver steel there as well. Dsus Fasteners used to be there. They make specialty half turn fasteners, Probably are long gone by now.

I find once you cross the GW it's like another world.

 

[wolc123]

My reference to a heated cab was when using a blower, not a plow blade actually. Nice Cub. Reminds me of my very first tractor which was a '49 A dual fuel offset. Long gone to a new home. I believe it's now a parade tractor.

I definitely see where a cab would be nice for a blower. I never cared for blower because it only seems like they work good when it’s real cold and the snow is light and fluffy. In recent years, it seems like the wet, slushy snow is getting more and more common here in upstate western NY.

The blower’s are also nice in places where space is limited and snow must be piled high around driveways. I’ve got close to 30 acres of cleared land, so there is plenty of room to stack snow, when necessary.

Some years, when we’ve had multiple blizzards, I’ve hauled big piles of snow out into the fields with my loader tractor. This certainly wasn’t one of those, and the piles at the ends of the driveways never got more than 3 ft high, before they melted. It was an almost perfect winter for the Cub. We only had two snowfalls of over a foot, when I used my larger tractor.

 

[5030]

Blowers will blow wet slushy snow just fine but that requires way more grunt than your little Cub could ever make. Heck, I can even blow cinder blocks but they do cause the blower to jump around a bit...lol

Have not mounted the blower in the last 5 years actually, not enough snow but I do put my blade on and plow it when necessary. My plow is a bit larger than yours is, but then so is my tractor...

 

[DJ54]

I once bought what I was told was a two disc rear mounted plow for a Cub, at an auction. Not having a Cub, I marked it up and advertised it as such. Few, if any people were interested in the two disc rear mounted plow, but, I had several inquiries as to whether it was a one disc belly mounted model. They kept telling me what a good job the belly plow did.
The first attachment must be the one 2 disc I had.

This must be the one the people wanted and now, I see why.

I'm amazed how well that disc plow works in the black slabby ground and clay also. I was always led to believe they were mainly for sandy bottom ground. A 2 bottom like that would look great behind my 130 or 140 w/FH. Our tractor club has plowing says in the Fall, one of those would be a great addition to my collection.

 

[stuckmotor]

I'm amazed how well that disc plow works in the black slabby ground and clay also. I was always led to believe they were mainly for sandy bottom ground. A 2 bottom like that would look great behind my 130 or 140 w/FH. Our tractor club has plowing says in the Fall, one of those would be a great addition to my collection.

It was over thirty years ago when I had that plow. If cub owners preferences are like they were then you might be able to get a two disc at a low price. The belly plow will be more dear. I hope you find one.

 

[5030]

It was over thirty years ago when I had that plow. If cub owners preferences are like they were then you might be able to get a two disc at a low price. The belly plow will be more dear. I hope you find one.

I just happen to have the belly plow for one in the barn of all things.

 

[wolc123]

I cut and slit a couple more pvc pipes for the bottom of the blade, but no luck trying to drill holes thru the cutting edge to hold it on with bolts. It was way too hard to drill.

Oh well, even if I have to replace the pipes (3) times each winter, they will still save me lots of time raking stones in the spring. It only takes me 10 minutes to cut, slit and install the pipes and I have enough on the pile out back to make about 40 more if I need them.
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I plowed 5 or 6 times with the Cub thru the winter, and twice with my larger tractor (when we got more than 12”). The Cub certainly earned its keep, especially thanks to that PVC pipe under the blade.

For the first time ever, I couldn’t find a single stone in the grass this spring. I was able to cut the lawn without that back-breaking arduous job of picking out all the stones first.

I was going to beef up the plow frame and use it for moving my boat around with a front trailer hitch. Now, I am reluctant to do that because I don’t want to mess with something that works so well for its primary job (light snowplowing).

I’ll either use the rear hitch on the Cub, or the fixed front one on my Ford 8n, for moving the boat around. I just picked up a new 6 volt battery for the Ford.

I did a little tractor rearrangement out in the barn. The Cub is getting the little spot by the back door, Ford is moving up behind the big side door. My JD loader tractor and Bush-hog, formerly there, have new home back in the newly completed “splitter shed”. I had to scrape down the gravel a couple inches so the canopy top on that would clear the new swinging doors.


The Cub fits in that small back spot a lot better than the significantly wider and longer Ford 8n did. It just barely fit in there behind my camper. I took this picture when I had to use the Cub to jump start it last spring. I shouldn’t be needing to do that any more, now that it has a new battery in it.

I know there’s lots of “color blind” folks out there when it comes to tractors. Not me, and the American “big 3” are represented right here. I am just a touch “Country blind” however.

American iron has always and will always get the work done on this farm, as long as I’m on it.

 

[tacticalturnip]

Beautiful machine as always; the weather is looking nice too.

 

[5030]

I'm all good with colors as well and I never criticize anyone's choices, your choice always. I do like your TC as well. I have one as well and like yours, mine stays in the barn when it's not being used. I see so many people around here with their RV's sitting outside all the time, winter and summer and if you leave them sit outside, unprotected from the elements, they will eventually leak and rot internally and they are a expensive to buy so why do it? Mine is 10 years old at least, looks and smells new and we use it but when not in use, it's always inside. Just common sense, besides I want it to last.

Called common sense.

 

[wolc123]

I'm all good with colors as well and I never criticize anyone's choices, your choice always. I do like your TC as well. I have one as well and like yours, mine stays in the barn when it's not being used. I see so many people around here with their RV's sitting outside all the time, winter and summer and if you leave them sit outside, unprotected from the elements, they will eventually leak and rot internally and they are a expensive to buy so why do it? Mine is 10 years old at least, looks and smells new and we use it but when not in use, it's always inside. Just common sense, besides I want it to last.

Called common sense.

That’s the third truck camper I’ve owned. It’s 25 years old. I bought them all used. This one looks like it spent most of its time indoors. My wife saw it out for sale (2) years ago, and talked me into buying it. The one we had at the time was just a couple years older.

The roof leaked a little on our last one and it just had a porta-potty, where this one has a toilet and holding tank. The fridge and the power inverter also didnt work on our old one.

The furnas worked great on our old one. I haven’t tried this one’s yet, but the roof top AC works real good. I’ve spent a couple hot summer nights in it, running it in the barn (surprisingly it does ok plugged into a standard 120 volt 20 amp outlet out there). I thought I was going to need to run a 30 amp camper outlet to it.