Farmall Cub - Good First Tractor?

[Barnyard]

Friday and Saturday are the main days right?

Yes.

[cdahl383]

Friday and Saturday are the main days right?

Yes.

Ok cool. I'll see if my wife/kids would be interested in going too. Sounds like it would be a lot of fun!

[Don McCombs]

You would not regret it.

[Barnyard]

Friday and Saturday are the main days right?

Yes.

Ok cool. I'll see if my wife/kids would be interested in going too. Sounds like it would be a lot of fun!

I sent you a private message.

[Clemsonfor]

Hi,
The Cub looks good in your pictures.
The gas cap gasket can get old and shrink, and not seal right on the tank.
TM Tractor has a new gasket for the original cap, and info to get the free cap that Don posted above.
The new replacement cap is taller than the original cap.

I ended up cutting my own gasket out of cork gasket paper cause I'm cheap!

[Barebones]

The little Cub will do much, if not all, of what you describe. Lots of fun and remarkably worthy of a look. However, a zero-turn mower is a better tool for mowing - especially if lots of turning around the landscape is required. Best of all is the support you'd receive from the good folks on this site. A great nucleolus of willing experts.

[cdahl383]

The little Cub will do much, if not all, of what you describe. Lots of fun and remarkably worthy of a look. However, a zero-turn mower is a better tool for mowing - especially if lots of turning around the landscape is required. Best of all is the support you'd receive from the good folks on this site. A great nucleolus of willing experts.

I'm hoping to use it this year to plow a small garden. Would be cool to get a plow, set of discs, and maybe a front plow for pushing snow in the winter. I have a riding mower for cutting grass (little Cub Cadet).

I've managed to fix a lot of little things on it so far this year. Needs one brake replaced next. Plan on doing that at the Barnyard Bash in a few weeks.

[Clemsonfor]

What part of the country are you in? I think your way behind the curve if your putting in a garden. Maybe your way up north? Of course you can always put one in anytime in the summer your stuff just comes in late , your season is shortened and you deal with the bad heat. But if you have access to water the garden are this heat may not be as big of an issue.

[Clemsonfor]

I just thought if your anywhere around the barnyard bash, that's in Ohio I think. It's still a little late especially if you don't actually have the implements, but again get them and you can still start a garden your just limited on the season.

[SamsFarm]

Gee, it is only May.......

Many dont start gardens until Memorial Day, and it is pretty common to be planting in June up here.

We just had some frost this week!

[cdahl383]

I'm in Michigan. Most of the farmers around here haven't planted stuff yet. Still plowing the fields and getting things ready. Most people don't start their garden until around Memorial Day here because we still get a lot of frosts in May. The weather is unpredictable, could be warm for several days, then drop below freezing at night out of nowhere.

I'm going to the barnyard bash near Cincinnati next week. Bringing my Cub there to fix my one brake and check things out there. Sounds like it'll be a fun time!

[Clemsonfor]

Yep it looks like a great time if I was anywhere closer I'd love to go to it. Just too far for me. And yes Michigan kind of explains it. My corn is knee high wand tomatoes which aren't really early are as well. I know people with chest high tomatoes at this point

[cdahl383]

The corn here was just planted. Just little greens popping up out of the ground in the fields here.

Had the tractor out the other day. Rode out by the chicken pen to lock them up for the night. Got out there in style haha!

[Clemsonfor]

My second planting of sweet corn is just popping out of the ground this week.

[cdahl383]

I picked up a plow from the CubFest, but it's too late in the year now to get rolling. I need to get a set of discs to break up what the plow tears up. I'll just focus on going through the tractor and fixing things up over time this year and plan on doing some gardening next year.

Got a lot accomplished though so far since I picked it up just a couple months ago. The main issue was the right brake not working. Now that that's fixed it stops much better.