finally found my farmall cub...

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abodyjoe

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so i'v wanted a farmall cub for years now.. had a 47 ford tractor that was cool but just not what i wanted. looked at a few farmall cubs and super a's and just didn't feel good about them.. i posted on a cub site and a guy from long island contacted me saying he re does a few a year. quoted me a real fair price in my opinion and went to work. refused to take a deposit. said if i backed out it would sell easily.. i called him in january i think it was. he delivered it to me today since he was going to be in the area for a tractor auction tomorrow,, in the end it worked out pretty well.. can't wait to teach rylee how to drive it..
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its a 1948 farmall cub...some before and after pics below..

the one pic is from the 70's. my dad driving, me on his lap and my cousin on the back..

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The cubs are cool. I went with a 49 Ford 8N because well over 90% of parts for them are still available new.
 
Those look so fragile, I'm sure they are tough though. IH cast a few 318 blocks for Chrysler Industrial.
 
10 hp flat head, my grandpa worked one until the day he died.
My uncle restored it and finally re-lined the brakes, but did not have to do much mechanical work to it, because grandpa was an international tractor repairman, when he was a younger man.

I learned to drive on that old cub, but grandpa for some reason never fixed the brakes on it, the old sob cub scared me real bad coming off a steep hill at the farm, it popped out of gear, and I was going way faster than any 12 year old should have been moving on an old tractor with hardly any brakes, and a steering wheel that shook violently because the tie rods were wore out.

It was amazing what grandpa could do with that toy farm tractor.
I will take a photo of it the next time I am over at my uncles, it is really nice, he only uses if for parades now.
 
You think a plastic Polaris will be running 80 years later? Doubt it....
 
abodyjoe said:
i had a 47 ford 2N. was cool but i always wanted the cub. can't believe how much new stuff they sell for all these old tractors..

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Those old fords are good tractors, parts are probably easier to find than cub parts.
My uncle has found a few connections while restoring my grandpas, if you run into a hard part to find let me know, my uncle can find it, he is part blood hound I think.
I know he found original brake linings and the rivets to fix the brakes, and the always bent parts, emblems and gauges etc.
I remember him saying sheetmetal is impossible.
 
My uncle worked for International Harvester when it was in Louisville KY. I remember him talking about casting engine blocks for several auto makes.
 
I like my old cockshutt,1952 model 40. Drop a battery in and a gallon of gas and away it goes.
But its a bus by comparison to a cub.
 
Mine is a Farmall 100, which is an "updated" "Super A" which is super duperized "A." I love the thing, except havenot figured a good way to put power steering on, which it needs with the loader. I use it too much LOL to stop and "restore it." Use it and the loader to move engines and other heavy junk, and plow snow 'o course

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Used the loader to load the cab off the Dakota onto the trailer.

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Lil 'ol thing piled up all this snow last year or two, and WORKIN on a pile this year........

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Beat up old Meyer's blade. Bought this thing USED in about 1976 for TEU hundred and FIFTY dollars!!!

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You could probably rig up electric power steering real easy
 
red67gts said:
You could probably rig up electric power steering real easy
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The problem is the way the steering box/ linkage is designed. The box is built into the front casting, and the tie rod is "split." And everything is in the road of everything else. I even have a torque amplifier, but have been tol that it is very hard on the steering box on these girls, and mine likely needs rebuilt. And it ain't easy............
 
By the way, Joe, "when I was a kid" my Gramps on my Mom's side had a little Cub. No hyraulics, it had a HUGE acutator lever to operate the implements. He had a small snowplow, a mower, and maybe a plow. I don't know if I have any old photos or not.
 
67Dart273 said:
By the way, Joe, "when I was a kid" my Gramps on my Mom's side had a little Cub. No hyraulics, it had a HUGE acutator lever to operate the implements. He had a small snowplow, a mower, and maybe a plow. I don't know if I have any old photos or not.
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i've seen those manual implements.. leavers are crazy looking.. i didn't look real hard but the manual stuff seemed harder to find. apparently in 48 hydraulic was an extra cost option...
 
SLOPAR72 said:
My dad has one sitting in the pole barn just waiting for a new owner.....

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I like the old tractors, I don`t have a need for one now, but grew up on a miryad of farmalls. The fastest dam tractor I ever saw , belonged to my dad, a 1941 Massey Harris , had a 6 cyl. Chrysler car engine in it, with no governor at all. Was scary dangerous, with the front tricycle steering worn real bad. Couldn`t open it all the way up and hold it very long !
Always liked the 8n-9n fords but never had one.
 
famous bob said:
I like the old tractors, I don`t have a need for one now, but grew up on a miryad of farmalls. The fastest dam tractor I ever saw , belonged to my dad, a 1941 Massey Harris , had a 6 cyl. Chrysler car engine in it, with no governor at all. Was scary dangerous, with the front tricycle steering worn real bad. Couldn`t open it all the way up and hold it very long !
Always liked the 8n-9n fords but never had one.
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My dad grew up on Tobacco farms when Tractors first came to work the land. He says it's a time in his life that was forever changed in an instant..... When we bought this for him he didn't realize how far things have changed since those days. We have a Field days of the past which is a local event and spotlights the old iron. Really neat stuff....

JW
 
Tractors are big around here I know a few guys with 20+ all restored. Love to look at them! Nice restoration Joe!
 
SLOPAR72 said:
My dad grew up on Tobacco farms when Tractors first came to work the land. He says it's a time in his life that was forever changed in an instant..... When we bought this for him he didn't realize how far things have changed since those days. We have a Field days of the past which is a local event and spotlights the old iron. Really neat stuff....

JW
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Very cool.

The cub was built it replace 3 mules I think it was.
 
Very cool. I love old tractors especially farmalls. I don't have any I have been trying to talk my wife into why we need one for a while now I think she will cave soon Haha.
 
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