She's a beaut! Gotta love the old iron.
I sincerely hope that Rubbermaid tote is only for mock-up purposes, and that you'll be replacing it with a proper steel toolbox, to stay with the period theme.
That plastic box is temporary. Hopefully, I can locate an old wooden box, that I always used on my previous Cub and Allis Chalmers model C. It worked great for holding a chain saw, a few log chains, and some felling wedges. I sold both of those old tractors, when I had to thin the herd, as I was dismantling a couple of old barns that my great great grandfather had built in the mid 1800’s. I think I saved the wood box, but it’s currently burried under a bunch of stuff in the corner of my new pole barn.
If I can’t locate that old wood box, I will make a new one. I know that plastic one will not hold up very long for woods use. I also used the box for carrying bags of clover, wheat and rye seed, and a hand-held broadcast spreader, while I used those old tractors on a cultipacker.
One of the primary uses of this “new” Cub is going to be for planting wheat an clover over at my parents farm, which is about 20 miles away. That’s too far for driving a tractor down the roads, and I no longer own an equipment trailer. The Cub fits neatly in the 8 ft bed of my 3/4 ton pickup truck.
There is an old 6 ft Bissel drag disk over at my parents place, that I hope this Cub will handle. I doubt it will pull it at the most aggressive settings, but it will probably be ok with it, relatively straight.
I’m also going to cut down an old 8 ft cutipacker, to 6 or 7 ft width. It has a few busted up wheels on it and I gave a neighbor $ 40 for it a few years ago. I did the same thing with another one like it about 30 years ago, and I have been using that one at our place. It will be nice having another one over at my parents, to use with the Cub.
I won’t be planting wheat and clover over there until September. Before then, I will use that Cub for dragging logs out of the woods. Most of their place is wooded and there are hundreds of dead and dying ash trees, that I am processing into firewood.
I have been using my Dad’s Polaris Ranger for that, but dragging logs is tough on that machine’s automatic transmission. The Cub will not suffer from that malady, with its 3 speed manual.