Brought 57 cub home today

[tacticalturnip]

All that dead weight up that angle, yeah, doesn't look fun to me.

Glad you're getting the old girl fixed.

 

[wolc123]

All that dead weight up that angle, yeah, doesn't look fun to me.

Glad you're getting the old girl fixed.

The scariest part was watching the truck bed panels, that supported those inner lower chain attach links, bow out a little with each pull of the puller handle. I did it slowly, watching for a break off, in case I had to “jump” the chain.

That puller worked amazingly well though. Much easier than my old come-a-long.

Unloading will be an easier. The brakes still work pretty good on the Cub. I’ll back it into a ditch in front of my buddy’s shop, to reduce the angle a bit.

I should be able to remove the tie down straps, allowing the transmission to hold it in place, and set up the ramps. Then I’ll get up on the tractor seat, hold the brake pedal down, and shift it into neutral. When I release the brake, it should coast right off. Gravity will be my friend when I’m unloading.

I’ve just got to wait for things to dry up a bit before I back that old 2wd pickup into the ditch in front of his shop. I’m thinking by next Tuesday, things should dry up good, based on the weather forecast.

 

[stuckmotor]

I just did the math to figure how some guy got an Allis Chalmers B in the bed of a pickup, over fifty years ago. The B is just over nine feet long, the wheels must have rested partly on the tailgate. I do remember, the pickup was low on the springs and it looked like a dangerous undertaking.

 

[wolc123]

I just did the math to figure how some guy got an Allis Chalmers B in the bed of a pickup, over fifty years ago. The B is just over nine feet long, the wheels must have rested partly on the tailgate. I do remember, the pickup was low on the springs and it looked like a dangerous undertaking.

Yeah the Cub is significantly shorter and lighter, even with loaded rear tires. I’m guessing that the design was based on fitting in the bed of a standard full sized pickup truck bed. My 2000 Chevy Silverado handles it no problem.

I like it better on the 2wd one I have now, compared to my previous 2000 4wd Silverado, which sat about 6” higher. I gave that one to my father in law, who still uses it to plow snow at his place up up in the Adirondack mountains.

 

[WinterDeere]

I'm wondering how much those Irwin style clamps between the ramps and rear bumper were really adding to the safety of that whole operation.

 

[wolc123]

I'm wondering how much those Irwin style clamps between the ramps and rear bumper were really adding to the safety of that whole operation.

More so out of necessity than safety. When I started winching it up without them, the ramps which were supported by the trucks bumper, started lifting up. Clearly that was a no go.

They worked very well to hold them down, but after I had it about halfway up there was enough down force, from the tractor itself, to hold them down.

That was the first time I put a dead tractor in the truck. Think of a free body diagram of the forces on the board as the tractor is being winched up into the truck, when its front wheels first contact the ramps. Very little holding force is needed from the clamps, due to the long “moment arm” of the wooden ramps.

The force balance is different without the “puller”, and with the tractor under its own power from the back wheels. I’ve never had the ramps lift up off the bumper in that situation. That’s why it will be much easier loading it up after the guy fixes it and I can use its own little 9 hp engine for the “lift” power.

Fortunately, I’ve done a fair amount of rigging on board ships using similar equipment as part of my “day job”, so that part of the task (safety) came as second nature to me.

That puller that I used was pretty sweet for this job. I recently acquired from a buddy in a trade for an old plumb bob reel that I had picked up in a $ 100 “bundle deal”, at a garage sale. The reel didn’t come with a plumb bob, but I located and purchased a compatible one on eBay (for $ 16 including shipping).

You wouldn’t believe the other stuff that came with that $ 100 garage sale bundle. My favorite item so far is the 10 speed bike which I have now used several times back and forth to church. How nice it is to have a bike, that actually shifts gears, for that trip. The road is flat as a pancake between home and there, however the headwind coming home is often horrific.

Here are some of the other items that $ 100 garage sale bundle included:

There wasn’t a price on the bike, which was the item which first caught my attention, when I drove by. The woman’s husband had passed recently, and she was selling all his stuff before she sold her house and moved to a smaller place in town.

Both tires were flat on the bike. There was very little wear on them, so I suspected it hadn’t been ridden much. I inflated them when I got home and they have held air for a month now. It also shifts great.

I’ve already used the cant hook, cut off grinder, and the Dale Earnhardt (my favorite driver of all time) collection.

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The landing net had been priced $ 40 and wasn’t part of the original “bundle” deal. When I offered $ 100 for the other items, the lady said that she couldn’t believe that I had offered that much. That’s when I asked her if she’d throw in the net, which she did.

It worked great out on Lake Erie on Father’s Day for a few big smallmouth bass and some huge freshwater drum.

It also came with a box of about 20 dvds that included one of my all time favorite movies (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid).

 

[wolc123]

The dead Cub had been sitting in my truck since last Thursday. Today, I finally delivered it to my Farmall mechanic’s shop. Unloading it was much easier than loading it was.

First, I removed the back straps. Next, I backed the truck into a roadside ditch (while the transmission was in 1st gear). I put the ramps on the bumper and got up in the seat. I pressed the clutch and let gravity pull me off of the truck out into the road. There, we hooked a chain to his diesel Kubota sxs and dragged it behind his shop.

He said he’d have it done in about a week. Most likely, it just needs points and condenser. I asked him to give the throughout bearing a little grease while he had it.

That wore out on my previous Cub, due to my lack of maintenance. I thought that one needed a new clutch, but it just needed a new throughout bearing. That was still a big job for him, requiring a rear end split.

The drive over there, with this one in the back of the truck, was a little hairy. It was about 5 miles of backroads but they are in kind of rough shape. I kept it under 30 mph the whole way. I think when he finishes it, I’ll ride my bike over to get it, and drive the tractor home.

I’ll leave the bike at his place and pick it up with my suv on my next trip to or from work (I pass his shop every weekday on that trip). That will be a fun bike ride and a fun tractor ride. I’m missing the tractor, since it quit running back in February. The novelty of the new bike, that actually shifts gears, has yet to wear off also.

 

[wolc123]

My mechanic called yesterday to say that he had completed the repair on the Cub. As I had suspected, new points and condenser were what it took to get it to start and run good again. He also lubed up the throw out bearing.

I figured he was about ready to call me after I noted it was moved into his shop a few days ago. His timing was good because I just took the camper off of my truck, which I had recently moved out from it’s inside the barn, winter storage position.

I’ll throw the ramps and tie down straps in the truck bed tomorrow and hopefully he’ll be around to take my money and help me load it up .

It will be nice having that little tractor back. I really wasn’t looking forward to cultipacking/planting turnips in a few weeks, with my Durango field car.

 

[wolc123]

No trouble getting the Cub home on my drive home from work today. It running real good again and ready for cultipacking turnips at the end of the month.

 

[tacticalturnip]

It's good to see the old girl home again and running well, what a great machine.