Hello from Ravenna
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 12:50 pm
Hi everyone. I'm new to your site and thought it might be a good idea to join in as a source for insight and general information as well as share some stories. I've got a 49 Cub which I bought about six years ago. It came with a number of usefull attatchments. I have a 59" woods belly mower, a standard 12" bottom plow, a set of cultivators, two drag harrows, a set of dics, a mower bar, and a grading blade, all original Farmall impliments for a Cub except the Woods mower. It also came with a right angle flat belt PTO, rear wheel weights, and a set of steel spiked wheel attatchments for the rear wheels, kinda like the old style iron wheels.
I bought the tractor from a guy about 60 miles from where I live and I got most of the manuals that came with the tractor when it was new. I loved the marketing ploy they used for the Cub in their brochere, "The Farmall Cub handles every two horse or mule job - and then some. It outworks a team on all jobs, and handles some jobs two or three times as fast. It doesn't eat when it isn't working, and adds from 3 to 5 crop acres for each animal it replaces. And, beside, it is always harnessed and ready for work!" ...and that's a direct quote from the 1949 sales brochere, I smile every time I see that.
Interestingly, even though I bought the tractor some 60 miles away, it was originally sold from a place called Ravenna Truck and Implement in Ravenna which is where I live. The tractor has an original decal ( a little hard to read) from the dealer still on it. I thought that was pretty cool. Something that still amazes me about these old machines is how well they were engineered. Every thing about them is tried and true simplicity, all the implements work flawlessly, even 62 years later, I've used every impliment that I have for it a number of times. In spite of the fact they are rated at something just over 9 hp at the drawbar they work very well, a perfect blend of power to weight and traction (with ag tires). Sometimes I can hardly believe what it can do.
Glad to be a part of your group - thanks for having me!
I bought the tractor from a guy about 60 miles from where I live and I got most of the manuals that came with the tractor when it was new. I loved the marketing ploy they used for the Cub in their brochere, "The Farmall Cub handles every two horse or mule job - and then some. It outworks a team on all jobs, and handles some jobs two or three times as fast. It doesn't eat when it isn't working, and adds from 3 to 5 crop acres for each animal it replaces. And, beside, it is always harnessed and ready for work!" ...and that's a direct quote from the 1949 sales brochere, I smile every time I see that.
Interestingly, even though I bought the tractor some 60 miles away, it was originally sold from a place called Ravenna Truck and Implement in Ravenna which is where I live. The tractor has an original decal ( a little hard to read) from the dealer still on it. I thought that was pretty cool. Something that still amazes me about these old machines is how well they were engineered. Every thing about them is tried and true simplicity, all the implements work flawlessly, even 62 years later, I've used every impliment that I have for it a number of times. In spite of the fact they are rated at something just over 9 hp at the drawbar they work very well, a perfect blend of power to weight and traction (with ag tires). Sometimes I can hardly believe what it can do.
Glad to be a part of your group - thanks for having me!
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Pics of the brochure would be cool. I have a few old ones and have read similar comments on how the Cub is more economical than mules/horses 
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