Brought 57 cub home today

[5030]

We like ours and use it infrequently. Problem is, trucks to day (the ones I call soccer mom trucks), are incapable of hauling a TC. Bed is too short and suspension is under rated too. We much prefer ours and I put a trailer on the back and haul the SxS as well.

No AC in ours, could have but didn't because we have one of those retractable soft top ones and the entire upper section is all screened or has zip in windows if it rains. It's a Palomino Backpack Stupid name for anything. We live pretty close to the factory so I bought it direct and picked it up there as well.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

My grandfather bought a 1949 Cub new because his place bordered an International Harvester sales/service business. So many memories, they taught me how to use it when I was a kid. They're amazing for 10hp.

 

[Tpondel]

Damn. Thought we were talking Piper Cubs

 

[wolc123]

We like ours and use it infrequently. Problem is, trucks to day (the ones I call soccer mom trucks), are incapable of hauling a TC. Bed is too short and suspension is under rated too. We much prefer ours and I put a trailer on the back and haul the SxS as well.

No AC in ours, could have but didn't because we have one of those retractable soft top ones and the entire upper section is all screened or has zip in windows if it rains. It's a Palomino Backpack Stupid name for anything. We live pretty close to the factory so I bought it direct and picked it up there as well.

We usually only use ours a couple of times each year. My brother and sister have a small cottage up on the St Lawrence River and we always go there for a long weekend in the summer. Last summer it was pretty cool up there and we hardly needed the AC.

I’ll be needing it on the Fourth of July week this summer. Both of my wife’s brothers and her sister and their families are heading up to her parents place, on a private lake in the Adirondack mountains, and there’s not enough bedrooms for everyone in the house.

Usually, it’s just us and her parents up there that week, and there’s plenty of room in the house. It will be nice having our camper up there for the peace and quiet. Her brothers and sister like to stay up late partying. I prefer to go to bed early, so that I can get up before sunrise, and go fishing.

 

[Code54]

Restored a 1957 Cub Low boy this past year. Great little tractor (that I will never use), but it

will be fun at fairs and shows!

 

[DJ54]

wolc123, I thought of you Thursday, I went to my cousin's house to pick up a potato digger I agreed to buy from him. After visiting for a while with him and his brother they said come on, let's go for a ride, I had no idea where we were going, other than we were going to "Sam's" for a tour.

After a 5-6 mile ride we pulled into a driveway of a property with a well groomed lot with a very nice shop w/large pole barn attached. Outside was a fellow stripping paint from the hood of a Cub, and looking around I saw many parts, and attachments for Cubs. My cousin asked the fellow if Sam was around, and he pointed towards the shop. A gentleman in his what appeared to be early 70's appeared and we got introduced. My cousin asked if I could get the tour. He said Sure, come on in.

We walked in the shop which was roughly 60' wide and 40' deep. There sat numerous Cub's parked side by side. From '47 models, to '79 models, he had at least one from each year made, most in the higher versions, but many Lo-Boys too. One of the '79 models had every option offered by IH, and aftermarket on it. It is the crown jewel of his Cub collection. I asked how many Cub's he had, he had to ponder a second and said over 50 restored, and more in stage's of restoration.

After looking what was in the shop over, they said you need to see "the rest". We walked through to the storage area of the building, and there sat more Cub's, Super A Farmall's, Farmall 100's, 130's and 140's, most with Fast Hitch, and each tractor had an attachment. Numerous other attachments literally stacked around. Beyond that, a very nice restored IH 460 and 560. In the very center sat a pristine original IH 966 that has 1400 original hours, the Crown Jewel of his whole collection. It was really hard to absorb all I was seeing in the short time we were there. I was actually stunned at what I was looking at. He's a pretty private fellow, so thought it best not to take any pictures.

My cousin mentioned we'd better get going, and Sam told me come here, I want to show you something. We walked out among numerous attachments and came up on a single point 2-12" moldboard plow. I've been looking for one for 5-6 years. Sam looked at me and asked if I was interested, I told him maybe, how much..?? He spit out a price, and I couldn't get my wallet out fast enough. It has seen very little use, couldn't fell any noticeable wear on the moldboards, coulters the same. We had to rearrange how things would fit on my small trailer, but we made them fit for the 100+ mile trip home.

It just seems that a lot of my collection I just happen to come across. My cousin said that is the first time he's ever known Sam to sell anything. Apparently, the stars were aligned for me on Thursday, maybe I should have stopped and bought a lottery ticket...

The old power-driven potato digger which I believe is a IH No. 16, it definitely needs some TLC, but it will be a fun project, and the plow I hope to mount on the 140a do some plowing here in the next couple of weeks at the Smeck County Farm Park where they let us grow several crops for their Fall Harvest Days. The digger should make a good backup to the one we use now. Other than repairs needed I'll leave it in its original work clothes, people seem to be amazed this rusty old stuff still works. That's half the fun of it...

 

[wolc123]

I used the Cub on one of my 7 ft cultipackers for planting turnips at our place last week. It’s definitely my favorite tractor on that implement.

I have another 7 footer over at my parents place and I used my dad’s John Deere / Yanmar 770 on that one over there. The Cub is way nicer and fits me much better. The operators platform is a too small on the JD.

Dad’s got a nice little 6 ft Bissel disk over there that also works great on the Cub.

My favorite job with the Cub is still snowplowing though. I can’t wait for winter and I hope we get a little more snow than we did on the last one.

 

[lilranch2001]

I am perfectly satisfied with global warming, and the lack of snow that we’ve been getting for the last two or three years…..

I thank the Lord every day in the winter time regarding the new seasons

 

[wolc123]

I am perfectly satisfied with global warming, and the lack of snow that we’ve been getting for the last two or three years…..

I thank the Lord every day in the winter time regarding the new seasons

There’s no doubt that it does have some advantages for those of us up near the Northern border of the USA. Back in the prior millennium, it took a lot more firewood to heat a house thru the winter. Now, I can heat our 2000 sq ft house from fall until spring using less than 6 face cords.

It’s also nice to not need a four wheel drive vehicle to get back and forth to work most days in the winter. My little front wheel drive suv does just fine there, and I much prefer my rear wheel drive 3/4 ton pickup over my prior 4 wd, because it has a much less conplex drive train and less extra weight to haul around.

I do miss some things though, like ice fishing and skating on our farm pond. Here’s a picture that I took while open water fishing on that pond this past February 15, which had been the time of year when the ice use to be the thickest.

I was working in the back yard that day and found some earthworms under an old barn timber I was moving. I put them in a jar and walked back to the pond with a pole, hook and bobber.

The bluegills were hungry.

 

[wolc123]

My main job with the Cub in the summer is cultipacking, but I also use it to pull my boat around and move it back into the barn after I’ve been out fishing. After my last time out “pet shopping”, I used it to transport the pets (4 largemouth bass) to my pond. There’s a tricky culvert crossing on the way back there that I would never be able to navigate across when towing the boat with my extended cab long box pickup truck.


I noticed oil dripping down the side of the filter housing during that job. I checked the oil level and it needed a quart. I haven’t changed it since I had all the fluids changed after I bought it two years ago, but I’ve probably put less than 50 hours on it since then.

after I topped it off tonight, I removed the bolt and cover from the filter housing. The leak was coming from under the head of that bolt. I sanded down that contact area of the cover and put it back together with a little extra torque. It seems to be holding ok now.

I fixed it just in time because I hope to do some cultipacking with it this Saturday. I’ll be keeping a close eye on it because that’s likely to be my primary snowplowing tractor again this winter like it was thru the last one. I wouldn’t be real surprised if we never again get enough snow that I need more than that 10 hp Farmall Cub to clear it.