tacticalturnip
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One might describe your current machine as 'cherry' perhaps?
Brought 57 cub home today
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Yeah you could say that I guess. The same holds true for my 1951 Ford 8n. That one also still has the factory tires on it. It also still has its “work clothes” ie factory paint.
My Cub had been repainted by the old maintenance guy at the factory that I bought it from. It must have sat outside for a while also, because the original front tires are looking pretty rough.
My old Ford was never stored outside, and the original 73 year old Firestones are still looking pretty good at 2000 operating hours.
I like having those old gasoline powered cherries around. Now that diesel costs so much more than gas, it’s cheaper to get work done with them, than it is with any new tractor that you can buy today.
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No snow here but almost the same regarding vintage tractors... 49 Cub, 50 M and 53 Jubilee.
The cub is always the Christmas center piece at the tree farm... my guess is in thousands of holiday pictures...
Great to see yours on the job...
Filled up today with 87 gas at $5 gallon...
The cub is always the Christmas center piece at the tree farm... my guess is in thousands of holiday pictures...
Great to see yours on the job...
Filled up today with 87 gas at $5 gallon...
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Damn, that is a close match maybe only three years off. Is your M a Farmall or a John Deere ?
The first tractor on our farm was a 1949 John Deere M, which my dad still has, but which he hasn’t tried to start in about 15 years. He says he’s leaving that one to my brother when he passes. That don’t bother me too much, because it’s pretty much worn out. I spent a lot of hours cultivating corn and crimping and raking hay with that old M. It’s also been repainted.
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Are you sure we are not related living in parallel universes?
I'm in the SF Bay Area part of California... also have the twin Troy Built Tiller... and maple bed headboard...
Couldn't tell were you are located but no snow here...
The 1950 M has a straight pipe and LOUD doesn't begin to describe the sound but it will idle down to nothing... nephew won't let me put a real muffler on it.
The Jubilee is just a nice tractor... retired and only for show now days.
I'm in the SF Bay Area part of California... also have the twin Troy Built Tiller... and maple bed headboard...
Couldn't tell were you are located but no snow here...
The 1950 M has a straight pipe and LOUD doesn't begin to describe the sound but it will idle down to nothing... nephew won't let me put a real muffler on it.
The Jubilee is just a nice tractor... retired and only for show now days.
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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.
The first attachment must be the one 2 disc I had.
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Damn, we must be. I’m in upstate NY, but spent all of the last week working in SanDiego, so I’m still on CA time.
As I recall, that little muffler you can see on our M quieted it down pretty good. I definitely liked that two-banger “poppin Johnny” sound though. That M was always a gutsy tractor and did real good on a two bottom plow. I think it outpulled my slightly more horsepower Ford 8n.
Grandpa said that he bought the new John Deere M back in 49 because the Ford 8n he was considering was a lot more expensive.
He paid less for the John Deere with plow and mounted cultivators, than just the Ford tractor and plow would have cost.
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Wow... small world... I hear up state New York is a different world than New York city... my nephew lives their now and my niece is there visiting...
Something fascinating to me to find old iron still in the job for 75 years or more.
Enjoy seeing your pictures!
It’s way different for sure. I was only in the city once and I hated it. Our daughter’s high school field hockey team advanced to the final four a couple years ago. The tournament was on Long Island and I spent 3 hours, stuck in traffic in Queens, getting there.
Our daughter liked it though. They travelled in a big greyhound buss, and stayed in a fancy hotel. They lost their first game, so they got to spend the next day seeing the sites, Statue of Liberty and stuff. All I saw was bumper to bumper traffic.
We live on the old homestead where my great great great grandfather first settled in the early 1800’s, in western NY, about half way between lakes Erie and Ontario. I can have my boat in either one in a half hour. The summer, fall, and winter weather is almost perfect here, but the spring is always lame (hence I didn’t mind the week in Southern CA).
The land here is flat as a pancake, and the scenery ain’t all that great. The deer hunting, smallmouth bass (Lake Erie and upper Niagara River) and salmon (Lake Ontario) fishing is phenomenal though.
I’ve not been to northern CA, but I have been on a few work assignments in Portland OR, and found it to be pretty nice. I liked the scenery there better than southern CA, especially up around Mt Hood.
We went to a place to eat that I think was called “The Tippy Canoe” and it was pretty nice (I think it may have burned down now), as was the Timberview lodge, up on the mountain.
The scenery up there was good, but I didn’t care for it quite as much as what we have up in NY’s Adirondack mountains. That’s where I plan on moving after I retire (maybe), in about 6 years, depending where our girls settle down.
Our in-laws live up there now and my family has a seasonal place about an hour north, on the St Lawrence River. Each of those dwellings are waterfront and subject to high taxes because of that. I aim to find a nice chunk of land, about half way between.
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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.