2013 - 1947 = 66 years of Cubs
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 11:57 am
Joe's video link on the Family-Sized Farm IH Cub tractor was interesting. Mostly flat land plowing and cultivation for what I take to have been cash crop farming back in 1947. I'm certain, being a follower of this Cub Forum for some months, that many of you do just that with the Cub. That's not what I do, nor why I have the Cub, so I thought I'd mention what I do with the Cub, what I plan to do with it, and what I no longer do with it. The thought came to me that the Farmall Cub, between 1947 and today, is a flexible tractor and it only takes us to send it on new tasks of the day. Perhaps you have more things you do with your Cub that aren't shown on that old movie?
Cub here, on fairly hilly terrain, does this:
Plows snow from driveway and walkway from barn to house.
Sicklebars fields. Am trying to turn field mowing from maintenance work to haying. Pulls a hayrake for haying. Pulls a cart for gathering hay with a pitchfork.
Pulls carts of firewood for splitting and also split wood to the woodshed. Pulls downed trees out of the brush and to the fields. Helps out with a chain to bring down hung up trees that fell into other trees -- careful work that. Moves the chickens in a wired enclosed cart around. Used to haul larger stones out of the garden...and hope that's done with.
Cultivates gardens early, before planting with tines -- no land plowing or harrowing or even smoothing out with a dragged log or some smoothing tines from horse drawn days. But the Cub has been banned from the home gardens because of curvey paths, semi-raised beds, a dislike of the wheel spacing for working on seedbeds from either side. The planted garden belongs to the rototiller, hand tools. I'm okay with this as is wife who also things that even the Cub compacts soils there. I did lots of land plowing, harrowing, smoothing, but we weren't happy with the outcome for a family garden.
Vineyard work. So far just cultivation of rows before planting out vines. But am working on an outboard cultivator system for maintenance of weed free spacing under trellises. More on this (good or bad) as summer comes and goes. Also pull a cart with a spinning jenny it it for letting out wire for trellis building. Hauling wood posts.
Someone brought over a homemade logsplitter that ran off the Cub's PTO and that was marginally okay but he picked it up and I've not missed it, finding that an electric powered hydraulic splitter does what I need done.
That's what comes to mind.
Cub here, on fairly hilly terrain, does this:
Plows snow from driveway and walkway from barn to house.
Sicklebars fields. Am trying to turn field mowing from maintenance work to haying. Pulls a hayrake for haying. Pulls a cart for gathering hay with a pitchfork.
Pulls carts of firewood for splitting and also split wood to the woodshed. Pulls downed trees out of the brush and to the fields. Helps out with a chain to bring down hung up trees that fell into other trees -- careful work that. Moves the chickens in a wired enclosed cart around. Used to haul larger stones out of the garden...and hope that's done with.
Cultivates gardens early, before planting with tines -- no land plowing or harrowing or even smoothing out with a dragged log or some smoothing tines from horse drawn days. But the Cub has been banned from the home gardens because of curvey paths, semi-raised beds, a dislike of the wheel spacing for working on seedbeds from either side. The planted garden belongs to the rototiller, hand tools. I'm okay with this as is wife who also things that even the Cub compacts soils there. I did lots of land plowing, harrowing, smoothing, but we weren't happy with the outcome for a family garden.
Vineyard work. So far just cultivation of rows before planting out vines. But am working on an outboard cultivator system for maintenance of weed free spacing under trellises. More on this (good or bad) as summer comes and goes. Also pull a cart with a spinning jenny it it for letting out wire for trellis building. Hauling wood posts.
Someone brought over a homemade logsplitter that ran off the Cub's PTO and that was marginally okay but he picked it up and I've not missed it, finding that an electric powered hydraulic splitter does what I need done.
That's what comes to mind.