All Ready to Roll Without a Plow
Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 7:45 pm
I've had my cub two years now. Last year was spent cleaning and assembling the various parts, and my dad and I got it running (more him than me), but too late to put in a garden.
A garden was the big selling point to my wife. I promised her tomotoes, corn, and green beans to her heart's content. (Although I don't really know what I'm doing, agriculture wise, I'm learning as fast as I can.)
It came with a heep of impliments, rusted and tangled. The previous owner told me there were cultivators, a planter, and a plow, plus a snow blade. He had owned the tractor only as a bunch of parts, and ran out of time to work on it. So, the cub, the baskets of parts, and the mass of odd shaped metal pieces all came home and went in the shed.
I read manuals and found the snow blade. It was the first thing I've actually done with the cub. It was Christmas morning, and we had an eight inch snowfall. Only half the county got that much snow, so I think it was a Christmas present just to me. I can't really describe the joy I felt purring up and down the long bumpy drive under tree limbs weighed low with snow. It made all the effort worth it.
With Spring here, I decided this would be the year of the garden. Out in the shed, I sorted through the pieces. Cultivator arm, planter bin, planter drive chain, odd slotted flywheel from something with rebar welded into the slot, hmmm, no plow. At least no plow like I've seen in the manuals.
The regular planter has the big spoked wheel that pushes the ground back together, then there's this other planter? Actually, I don't have any idea what it is. It looks like the planter, but there's a small spoked wheel between the side flaps, not behind, and the flaps are attached to the frame with hinges? It almost looks like some homemade planter or fertilizer. It definetly isn't a plow, at least not the kind to turn yard into garden. I've never seen it any the manual either. (I admit I sometimes look at ones for stuff I don't own, just so I know what's out there.)
So now I am thinking of a way to explain to my wife that I don't actually have a plow. This is after I assured her I was done spending money on "Rusty." (I let her name it. I'm told this will make her more attached to it.)
It's Spring. I'm plowless. The ground is drying out just about right (so the neighbors tell me).
I just got the pick-up running again, after it sat idle with a bad sending unit all winter. I think I'll go plow hunting, and I just might get my wife her garden yet. I sure hope they're in season.
Tom Z.
A garden was the big selling point to my wife. I promised her tomotoes, corn, and green beans to her heart's content. (Although I don't really know what I'm doing, agriculture wise, I'm learning as fast as I can.)
It came with a heep of impliments, rusted and tangled. The previous owner told me there were cultivators, a planter, and a plow, plus a snow blade. He had owned the tractor only as a bunch of parts, and ran out of time to work on it. So, the cub, the baskets of parts, and the mass of odd shaped metal pieces all came home and went in the shed.
I read manuals and found the snow blade. It was the first thing I've actually done with the cub. It was Christmas morning, and we had an eight inch snowfall. Only half the county got that much snow, so I think it was a Christmas present just to me. I can't really describe the joy I felt purring up and down the long bumpy drive under tree limbs weighed low with snow. It made all the effort worth it.
With Spring here, I decided this would be the year of the garden. Out in the shed, I sorted through the pieces. Cultivator arm, planter bin, planter drive chain, odd slotted flywheel from something with rebar welded into the slot, hmmm, no plow. At least no plow like I've seen in the manuals.
The regular planter has the big spoked wheel that pushes the ground back together, then there's this other planter? Actually, I don't have any idea what it is. It looks like the planter, but there's a small spoked wheel between the side flaps, not behind, and the flaps are attached to the frame with hinges? It almost looks like some homemade planter or fertilizer. It definetly isn't a plow, at least not the kind to turn yard into garden. I've never seen it any the manual either. (I admit I sometimes look at ones for stuff I don't own, just so I know what's out there.)
So now I am thinking of a way to explain to my wife that I don't actually have a plow. This is after I assured her I was done spending money on "Rusty." (I let her name it. I'm told this will make her more attached to it.)
It's Spring. I'm plowless. The ground is drying out just about right (so the neighbors tell me).
I just got the pick-up running again, after it sat idle with a bad sending unit all winter. I think I'll go plow hunting, and I just might get my wife her garden yet. I sure hope they're in season.
Tom Z.
a radio in an old mail box, and I'm sure numerous other things. Each worked for a time, but the deer get used to it. Try shooting a few. 