Brought 57 cub home today

[Fuddyduddy1952]

The engine, hood, tank is offset so looking down you can watch the furrow being plowed.
I really did a stupid thing as a kid. We had a hilly area where apple trees were planted, going uphill in first gear I wondered what would happen if I clutched it, then rolling back popped the clutch.
Of course it stood straight up, I slammed clutch pedal and it seemed to stand forever...then thank God went forward.
Then a string tied to vane governor lever.
Yes we plowed snow a lot, you can flip brake pedal lever up to help "steer". With fluid filled tires, weights & chains it did well. Our drive was steep down & up with a curve. Gravel so we'd leave about 2" snow.

 

[wolc123]

……Gravel so we'd leave about 2" snow.

The slit pvc under the blade works wonders with the gravel. It cleans all the snow off the driveway, but leaves all the stones, even when the ground is not frozen (as it rarely does anymore, even up here near the Canadian border).

I go thru a few of those pipes each winter. They are easy to make. Just cut a length, the width of the blade, slit with table saw, and pound on with a hammer.

I used to spend hours raking stones back onto the driveways each spring. No more of that, the last (3) winters, since having the pipe on the Cub blade.

I also use that tractor and blade for pushing up leaf piles out back, which I have collected and dumped using my garden tractor and a leaf sweeper. I need to remove the pvc pipe for that job, or it just rolls over top of the leafs. It pushes them clean off the grass into a big pile, with the pipe removed.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Now at home here the 530 ft driveway is asphalt & almost level. There's also a parking area, but I like to shovel it by hand. Good exercise & wife shovels some too.
The pipe is a great idea!

 

[wolc123]

Now at home here the 530 ft driveway is asphalt & almost level. There's also a parking area, but I like to shovel it by hand. Good exercise & wife shovels some too.
The pipe is a great idea!

I got the pipe idea from a guy on here who welded a steel pipe onto the bottom of the blade. That would surely be a longer lasting solution to the “gravel in the grass” problem, but it would ruin the Cub plow as a “leaf rake”.

Another nice thing about the plastic schd 80 pvc pipe, is that it does not scratch up the sealer, on fresh blacktop.

We’ve been away from home on vacation for a while. One of the first jobs that I’ve got to do when I get home, is bolt the side box-carry rack back onto the Cub.

That’s handy for hauling fertilizer, seed, and my hand broadcast spreaders (I use different ones for seed and fertilizer) when I’m planting turnips. I always remove it in the winter for snowplowing.

Like I mentioned earlier, there is no modern tractor made that I’d rather have on that 7 ft cultipacker, for planting turnips.

The same thing holds true for plowing snowfalls in the 2-12” range, which is what we had the most of, last winter.

The Cub is so good at those two jobs, that I’m willing to put up with the aggravation and expense of keeping that one “non-green” antique tractor, running properly.

 

[tacticalturnip]

I appreciate you posting your photos and stories of the little Farmall, it's a wonderful machine and I enjoy working with it vicariously.

[EDIT]: That may be one of my favorite $5 words.

 

[wolc123]

I appreciate you posting your photos and stories of the little Farmall, it's a wonderful machine and I enjoy working with it vicariously.

[EDIT]: That may be one of my favorite $5 words.

No problem, it has been a fun little tractor. I just added up its total cost to me so far, and it adds up to $ 1560.17, which includes $ 150 for the most recent repair / tune-up / throw out bearing lube.

Hopefully, I’ll be able to get turnips planted with it at home next weekend. I’ve got the seed and enough fertilizer.

I’ve got my eyes opened for a Woods belly mower for it. I’d rather use that, than the bush hog on my larger tractor, to mow a “rough” acre or two of grass out by the creek and along a row of pines next to the house.

 

[tacticalturnip]

That would be a fun mower. I used to see a few around with belly mowers, but they've almost disappeared.

 

[wolc123]

That would be a fun mower. I used to see a few around with belly mowers, but they've almost disappeared.

There’s one on sale down somewhere in PA right now. Oddly enough, we just drove home, all the way thru that state and Maryland on Monday. We were visiting the in-laws, who live down near VA beach.

We stopped for a couple days at the halfway point at a hotel in Gettysburg, on our way down. There wouldn’t have been room for 6 of us and that “new old” Woods mower, in my wife’s new minivan, on our straight-thru drive home.

I’ll keep looking for one a little closer, or maybe a sicke bar mower. That might make more sense. It would be nice for mowing the cattails around my pond, when the water is high. The new medium duty Bush-hog, that I recently purchased, does an excellent job on the “rough” grass.

It’s not so hot around the pond when the banks are wet and the feeder ditches are full though. That tends to be about 10 months of each year lately, way up here near the Canadian border, in western NY.

 

[jkmfarmer]

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[wolc123]

I had an extra 1/2 bag of fertilizer leftover from my spring corn planting, and I got that worked into a 1/4 acre turnip patch yesterday. I broadcast turnips on that this morning, and put the Cub back to work on my 7 ft cuktipacker, pushing in that seed.

It sure felt good to work that tractor again. Everything worked well, except for a slow gas drip from the sediment bulb gasket, when I opened the valve. I ordered (2) new ones from Amazon, and they will be in later this week. I’ll have one installed prior to my next use. I probably wasted a teaspoon or so of gas thru that leak this morning.