Farmall Cub

Jackman wrote: I do wonder if maybe the crank is ment to be mounted opposit what the pics show it seems to make more sense that the handle goes around the battery box as opposed to under the heals of your feet....

Jackman,
I quite agree, The CUBS are, in nearly all senses, very very well designed, very inovative for their time if you compare it with another tractor of the age such as an Allis B

BUT, honestly to put the handle just under the feet where the operating lever for the beaver bagger normally goes is just crass design stupidity, ah well, suppose nothing is actually perfect,
Pat

Hey Jackman...Even though your idea makes sense ...IH intended to have the crank mounted just the way it's shown in the photos . You'll git used ta restin' your foot on the handle as you're drivin' along SCOOPIN' UP THOSE PESKY BEAVERS IN YOUR "BEAVER BAGGER" (That IS ifin' you're LUCKY enough to ever FIND ONE!) .

'Country' Elliott wrote:Hey Jackman...Even though your idea makes sense ...IH intended to have the crank mounted just the way it's shown in the photos .

That position still just did not make sense to me so I looked thru my 56 Lo-boy owners manuel (reprint) and it shows the the crank handle mounted opposit from the pic posted with the part that you actually grab going up and over the pto lever. I would have thought that it would be flat on the floor plan and going around the battery box, I tried it that way and it fits perfect... I dont have a scanner to post a pic, but the IH manuel # is CR818E maybe someone else can post. Perhaps with the optional Beaver bagger attachment things where differant and as stated the crank was also a rest place for weary feet as we can just imagine a full day of beaver bagging can make a man real tired ....

Well Jackman...It's really called a "Possum Poke" not so much a "Beaver Bagger" (although I suppoz y'all could scoop up beavers as well as possum. ..Just the beavers are usually WET & in the water ...making it nearly impossible to "bag" with a Cub (unless ya git the optional IH Cub 4-wheeled beaver-bagger floatation pontoons...sold by IH for only 3 months July, Aug & Sept. 1952!!! )

Jackman wrote: That position still just did not make sense to me so I looked thru my 56 Lo-boy owners manuel (reprint) . . . but the IH manuel # is CR818E

CR818E sounds like an advertising brochure from 1955. If that is all you have, you should get an Owner's Manual.

Ole Country says:

Well Jackman...It's really called a "Possum Poke" not so much a "Beaver Bagger" (although I suppoz y'all could scoop up beavers as well as possum. ..Just the beavers are usually WET & in the water ...making it nearly impossible to "bag" with a Cub (unless ya git the optional IH Cub 4-wheeled beaver-bagger floatation pontoons...sold by IH for only 3 months July, Aug & Sept. 1952!!! )

Now see here old friend... ya just gotta know when ta bag them thar Beavers They cannot be bagged too far from the Poplar and Birch groves cause they dry out but ifn ya catchem juuuuussst when they is about to git to the grove well then they is still kinda damp and theys sticks to the bagger better doncha know Its all in the timing and in the wrist action as ya yank the lever to liftem up into the bagger

And heres the thing - ifn ya want really good Fried Beaver Tails, then thar beavers still gotta be damp enough for all the sugar and cinnamon to stick Hmmmm Good Real Canuck style treat

I don't know for sure but I think a long time ago I threw out those clips. My tractor never had a crank since I've owned it and I would never have quessed it was stowed under your feet anyway. So not knowing what those pesky clips were for I took them off and tossed them. Go Fiqure!!

[quote="Jim Becker"[/quote]
CR818E sounds like an advertising brochure from 1955. If that is all you have, you should get an Owner's Manual.[/quote]

Hey Jim, Thats right its not an owners manuel my mistake its an 8 page introdution of the Cub Lo boy and yes indeed I should get an owners manuel anyway I just brought home a new book tittled Farmall Cub &Cub Cadet and wouldnt ya know right there on page 37 is a close up pic of the crank in its "normal storage place under the drivers left shoe".......

Hey Jackman...You can get the Cub operator's manual & parts manual and a service manual from Binder Books (binderbooks.com) . Those 3 manuals will answer nearly all of your questions (LOT'S OF PHOTOS TOO) !

Thoses pictures do save a lot of reading.