todays toy tractor,,and do you have story's of real ones?

larry@stinescorner · Feb 21, 2018

I Know many on the site have cubs,,or story's of cubs

i have wanted a real one for a long time,,but these two are as close as Im gonna get,,,lol

..////who else has a cub or some good memory's of one?

JamesJTX · Feb 21, 2018

we had a cub back in the 60's it had sicle mower, cultivators and 1 row planter and dad built a platform and mounted a 30 gallon barrel and spray nozzle that we sprayed the pasture with. Dad sold it in early 70's when we moved to town.

Richard G. · Feb 21, 2018

Larry. I traded for an old red one back in the 90's and put a Woods belly mower on it.
Mowed the lawn for a while with it.
Put it in the back of a 60 GMC and took it to the hills to mow lanes in an old grown up field on an aunt's farm for deer hunting.
Was crossing a creek and the old logging bridge gave way. Next thing I know, I am down in the creek with the Cub upside down on me with the motor still running and gas leaking out on me.
I reached up and shut the Cub off and was able to get out.
Wound up with badly bruised legs and a couple of broken ribs.
Got the Cub out of the creek, Which had creek banks about 4 feet high, using a Ford 3/4 ton 4 wheel drive truck.
Got the Cub repaired and traded it on a 49 JD AR.
Richard

larry@stinescorner · Feb 21, 2018

that is a story,,,wow! I really have been having fun getting these stories started,,thanks for posting that!!

larry@stinescorner · Feb 21, 2018

bet you wish you had it now?

Stroby · Feb 21, 2018

My Dad has one of the older cubs, still in it's working clothes and I just fired it up one day last week. It has a belly mower under it but doesn't get used much as the mower is the same width as the wheel
width and I believe that may be too much. Can't let the grass get very tall. Neat little tractor that purrs like a kitten, does not smoke a bit and is so quiet compared to the "B" and "C". I am amazed though
at how difficult it is to get to the generator under the hood...

larry@stinescorner · Feb 21, 2018

I always liked the way they run so smooth and quiet

grandpa Love · Feb 21, 2018

Back when I was a kid in Maryland
we lived on 1 acre and my brother
and I wanted a couple of horses.
Well our folks worked out a deal
with our neighbor that if we kept
his 8 acre pasture mowed we could
keep horses there. Lucky us he had
an old red cub with a belly mower.
So we got a double deal ,horses
and mowing with a Cub! Now we have
one for our 15 year old. He loves
it ,and cuts grass in our
neighborhood with it. Love those toy ones! Enjoy your toy post !

big tee · Feb 21, 2018

What do you think Larry?--The Cubs going all the way this year? Whoops--wrong cubs!---Tee

JamesJTX · Feb 21, 2018

yep, I do have a red toy one like it without implements that I had gave my Dad, got it back when he passed.

larry@stinescorner · Feb 21, 2018

youll have to ask Kruser,,hes a baseball cub fan for sure

steve706 · Feb 21, 2018

I have wanted a Cub as far back as I remember and decided at one point to get one. Went to a Mennonite consignment auction specifically to
look at and bid bid on one. Got there pretty early in the morning and there was an old Mexican Mennonite gentleman sitting on it gripping the
steering wheel. Through the day I would go back to look, but there he was, still sitting. Finally it went on the block and nobody could outbid the
man sitting in the seat, it went high for a non restored cub (3500), but it was an auction so fair play. I asked another bidder what would make it
so special that the man would pay so much. Answer made sense I guess, the guy sitting in the seat already owned it, it was his daily driver
since he never had a drivers license. His family browbeat him into putting it in the auction to get him off the road, didn?t work it seems.

RBnSC · Feb 21, 2018

Last year wife's boss's father flipped his tractor and was pinned. His wife was there when it happened he told her to go get help and he told her that he felt some kind of fluid was leaking on him. She went to the house to call and when she got back the tractor was engulfed in flames. April 2 last year.
Ron

Gene Davis (Ga.) · Feb 21, 2018

Growing up in the 50's, we had a model L John Deere that was ragged, hand cranked and with a manual lift for
implements for our garden. Neighborhood kid had a sleek shiny, right new cub with starter, lights, hydraulics and the whole 9
yards for their garden. He poked fun of my ragged L all the time. I got tired of hearing it and challenged him to
a pull off by hooking a chain between the draw bars. He sneered and said to go get your pile of junk. I went and
got it and we backed up together and hooked them with a chain about 10 ft long. Someone hollered go and we went at
it. He started a little before I did and momentarily drug me backwards. When I let the clutch out on the L and the
2 cylinder Hercules caught it's breath, the oversized 10-24 tires spun about 1 round and then caught a good bite on
the pavement and I drug him about 100 ft backwards before I stopped and unhooked the chain and took my junky L home
and that was the last time I heard any smart remarks about my L.

MJ in the UK · Feb 21, 2018

Hi Steve, had the same thing happen to me about 10 years ago. Told of a nice Cub comine up in a sale just over 100 miles away so I hung my trailer onto my truck and set off to the sale. When I got there and looked at a very nice tidy tractor with a youn lad of about 12 or so years old sat on it. He sat on it all day until the auctioner came to sell it and his mother turned up and paid over twice as mutch as I wanted to pay for it. Never did get a Cub for my IH collection. The Cub tractors never came new into the UK but we do see a few later imported ones. MJ

larry@stinescorner · Feb 21, 2018

thats a great story!!!thanks for posting that!

steve706 · Feb 21, 2018

I used to live in the north east of Scotland and never saw any offset Farmalls at all. I figured there would have been some Cubs and Super Cubs made in France imported to England when they were new.

Butch(OH) · Feb 21, 2018

Growing up we had a red Cub that was mostly used for mowing the lawn. Dad bought it new and I remember him being BIG TIME POed when he wanted to use it to run the hay elevator and found out he had to spend a big pile of money for a gear box to change the direction because it ran backwards. That one was traded on a yellow Lowboy in the mid 70s. I have a 154 now and its a lot better lawnm owing tractor than any of the older ones, live PTO, easy to get on and off of.

KEB in GCMS · Feb 21, 2018

My father was a school principal for years, and one of the schools he was at had a red cub for mowing the grass. I spent a many a day on it mowing grass during the summers. My maternal grandfather has one of
the yellow ones, I tried to help him change the clutch and pressure plate in it here a while back. He had it in our shop due to the beam trolley I have for splitting tractors. He told me to go on he could do
it himself. He is only 92 years young. Still working on his tractors. I hope I can still be tinkering when I am that age. Thanks for bringing back the memories Larry.

Nice little toy tractors.

Traditional Farmer · Feb 21, 2018

My cousin has a Cub his grandfather bought new,only one I have ever seen with a loader on it.

jeffcat · Feb 21, 2018

I have one of each color in real size. My yellow is a 1977 and the red
I think is a 1953. The yellow is in very high almost new condition and
some seals are needed on the red.

The Dukester · Feb 21, 2018

Back in 1948 I had just gotten used to cultivating corn about 4 inches tall for my uncle with his ''41 Farmall H and mounted 2 row model 221
"swing gang" cultivators, I was almost 14 years old.....So along comes a local IH salesman with a new Cub with cultivators on a trailer behind
his '37 Bulck for us to try out. Uncle made 2 rounds with the Cub back and forth on the field I was working and then stops me and says you
gotta try this thing, it's really nice. I was kinda skeptical about it, but I had to do it. Well, it was okay, but shoot, you couldn't anything done.
The IH guy came back in about 3 hours and Uncle told him it was no sale...."My hired man doesn't like it".....Bye, bye, Cub,never ran one
again....

ed will · Feb 21, 2018

Hi, my dad was an independant farm and
equipment dealer. We also had a dairy farm. When I
was about 14 yrs old he took it on trade for
something. I mowed a lot of hay with it. I really
loved it. But he sold it to a small farmer.
Years passed and I always had a cub in mind.
One day I saw one for sale in the paper. I went to
look at it. It had lots of attachments with it. There
was a tree growing between the steering tierod and
rad. The rad bottom casting was cracked. I bought
it. Brought it home and had a nice project to work
on. I only had a city lot at the time. Soon after I
bought an orchard. I have it here with all the
attachments. I put hydraulics on it and new tires
too. It is a 1947 s/n 7744. Love it! Ed Will Oliver BC

dahlin · Feb 21, 2018

Here are my Cubs. The working tractor is a 1949. It was in tough shape when we got it, we overhauled the engine , put new tires on it and a new clutch. It has a fast hitch and many implements. It is a very handy little tractor to have around. Randy

flying belgian · Feb 21, 2018

Had a neighbor down the road that was just an old drunk. Lived on 40 acres that he inherited with about 15 tillable. Never had a drivers license so had a red cub that he drove to
town. He had a belly mower on it and would do some lawn mowing for large lots in town. Had a wooden box built on the back and would haul a few veggies to town and peddle them and
haul a few groceries back home. Sometimes you would see a chainsaw in his box that he would haul to town and saw up some branches. One way or another he would eek out a living.
Then in the late sixties or there abouts he bought a brand new yellow cub. Only had it a few months when he was coming home drunk one evening and he ran it off road down into
ravine. Died instantly.

Royse · Feb 21, 2018

The first tractor I bought for this place was a 1948 Cub.
It came with a belly mower, moldboard plow, and a front
mount snowplow that could also be mounted as a belly grader.
It had live hydraulics but no external hydraulics.

It is amazing how much work such a small tractor can do
for a home owner. I put in gardens with it, mowed 4 acres
of yard, plowed all the snow and even built a 3 pt hitch for it.

But I didn't have any indoor storage for it and that was a bad deal.
It got water in the bull gear housings. They froze and cracked.
Since that was my fault and I felt bad about it, I made myself
spend the money to fix it. I have many other tractors now, so it
has been retired to show and parade duty. Since that's what I'm
using it for, I didn't bother putting the hydraulics or weights back on.

larry@stinescorner · Feb 21, 2018

Thank you all for the great replies and stories!I have a lot of fun doing this,,maybe we will give it another shot tomorrow with a different toy!

T.R.K. · Feb 21, 2018

I have an example of each of those. (And the corresponding toys too.) I bought the yellow '65 model freshly out of the woods about 3 years ago, had to put an engine in it and do lots of other stuff. (I could have rebuilt the engine, but the valves were frozen in the block and I broke a chunk out of the block around one of the tappets.) I had a UC-60 engine from an insulation blower that was running and I put that in it. It runs very well.

Last Spring, I also was fortunate enough to buy my uncle's red Cub which has the grille like yours. He got in bad health and had to go to the rest home.

Cory Schmidt · Feb 21, 2018

you know there's a cub out here in TR,wi...we bought it as needing a "valve job" per auctioneer. Got home fresh fuel, little tweeking and had it running good. Used for a couple years, then rebuilt it(no power even for a cub). Been good again. Have a retired guy(that use to run BIG stuff) that would go out to the garden and run it all day just to hide. We give him dibs on produce for his service.

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