Installing & Using Farmall Cub Plow
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- čas přidán 13. 10. 2016
- The first time I mounted the cub 194 moldboard plow to my 1954 Farmall Cub! I have never done this, so this video walks through how to do this step by step. I include how to make all the adjustments. If you just want to see plowing action, skip ahead to minute 6:54. I only needed to plow a small area for a garden plot.
I never laugh at you tubers who a) admit they've never actually tried a certain task before, and b) allow their mistakes to be shown on the video. Kudos, sir! 👍
Farming is just a series of experiments, right? Glad we could have you along for the journey!
@@vnthomas16 Very well-put....👍
Just wanted to put in a thanks for this video, have the same plow and the manual but was still hard to visualize some of the steps in setting it up. Not exactly a lot of folks around these days that know how these old tractors/implements work.
That wasn't too bad for your first time. Thank goodness that no one filmed my first time plowing with my International 140 LOL
Once I figured out the depth control! Haha! Thanks for watching!
Thank you! Was having trouble getting mine set for the first time, I do not have a manual to reference. Video was a huge help.
Glad it helped! If you join farmallcub(dot)com you can access manuals for the Cub, as well as practically any implement made for the Cub. There’s a great forum too with lots of excellent knowledge. Worth checking out…
I love these types of video's . Lots of info, documentation and hand's on . Thank you for posting
Wheel weights are a must for everything with the CUB it is just to light especially the right side. We have had one on our Farm since 1948. My grandfather bought it in the early summer of 48. It is an excellent little tool.
i agree, while i only use my cub in my 2 acre yard and for plowing snow, it cant do any work without added weights. i have wheels weights AND tires loaded with rim guard. the extra weight after loading the tires made a huge difference pushing snow. without the loaded tires with wheel weights only the little tractor really just cant hook up enough. of course i have chains too. the cub is a good tractor but its fairly small and 2WD really needs the extra weight.
@@ad356 Rim guard, is that the beet juice instead of calcium?
Thanks , bill turner , ocean view , de.
Great video. Love seeing that Cub plowing
Thank you! We love our Cub!
Great First Try. Two things may help, when you had the tractor on the blocks to visualize the furrow, lower the plow to the ground, then make the shank parallel to furrow bottom. Then a couple of clicks on the depth control will set the plow to enter the furrow. Secondly, plowing is half what the ground conditions are. On our farm with alot of clay ground, we would wait for a rain, then 2-3 days in order to have some moisture in the soil. Makes the plowing much easier.
You sure don't live in my area. A plow around here will turn up a huge amount of rocks. I'm getting my cub soon! Thank you for the video!
We have a few rocks, but not many which I’m thankful for! Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the video. I have the plow but not the manual. Never used it but I did go out and drag it out of the storage shed today. We will see what happens this spring
noway josah not sure if you are a member of farmallcub.com, but they have a great database of manuals. Thanks for feedback and good luck!
great job! thanks for the video!
You’re welcome!
You done an excellent job
Nice tractor and setup!
AWSOME job!!!!
We are having the hardest time finding implements for our farmall 100 :( We bought the 3 point hitch to have more options... but still having trouble finding something. Would like to have a plow like yours so we can put in our garden. But our surge milker is working beautifully on the tractor! Thank you for that!!!!
You’re welcome! Good luck on the implement search. Sometimes it can be a test of patience!
Tractor Supply and Most Farm supply stores sell a protective coating in a spray can that you can spray on plow shares or any other plow that will protect the iron from rust....
Thanks! I would imagine so. I use my plow so rarely I doubt I would ever invest in a specialized product like that. I use linseed oil which seems to work good. I usually only plow every couple of years, plus I use Linseed oil on a lot of wood items so it’s something I keep stocked on the farm. Thanks for watching!
I’ve been using till coat from CaseIH for years on my plows, can’t beat the stuff for stopping corrosion and wears off in about 10ft once it’s in the ground.
Good stuff
Thanks!
Nice looking shop
Thanks! A good shop is the heart of a farm! It is very rewarding to be able to work on our own equipment.
thanks great job!
Great vid! Now you need a disk.
We have an IH 23-A disc that works great!
The prequel to "Day 85"! :)
I grew up with a Cub, it had a dozer blade, belly mower, plow and disc. The mower was a flail and it was sad but everything else worked great.
Mark Thompson we have a sickle mower, and it works really well. I could see how a flail mower could require more “oomph” than the Cub can provide. Otherwise I agree with you. I think the Cub excels at what it was designed to do. But we also have a bigger tractor with a loader. Thanks for watching!
Used to use a farmall cub with a belly mower worked great cleared up quite a few acres with that setup.
If you need new plow shares for that plow and haven’t found a source look up Tyler Bucheit in Southern Illinois. I think he used to have a website called the plow guy or something like that. He makes plow parts for JD 2 cylinders but he may be able to make or find the parts you need.
I have recently rebuilt my plow in fact. I got all the parts from a company called "Ploworx"... They specialize in new parts for old plows. Thanks for sharing though! And thanks for watching!
Have you checked your hydro oil on this tractor if so where do you check it at my hydro work last year but not this yr I think it’s low
7:20 This video is a few years old, and Im sure you figured this out, but the first row is the toughest. Pick out a point straight ahead of you and keep your eye focused on that and not the plow, you won't drift as much. The second row is easy, put the right front wheel in the furrow, copy and paste!
Yeah, I figured it out! Haha! I usually set up a post with some flagging tape at the far end to sight on. Thanks for watching!
I run mine in the middle and use 2nd gear, never thought about shifting it to the side
I just followed the instructions! Haha! I’ve tried plowing in second, but I think my soils are too heavy and I’m going too deep. Thanks for watching!
@@vnthomas16 mostly I plow the gardens which never get really compacted. There is a tractor store near me that has several 1 bottom flip plows and I really would like to have one but I think he said they are the 14 inch plows for the super A and 140 tractors. I think my cub would pull it though. I believe the one I have is a 12 inch.
Mine’s a 12 inch bottom too.
try using lard it will be smooth keep the linseed oil wor wood
I have a early 1955 Farmall Cub twin to yours with the same fast hitch. This is what drew me to your channel. I have only seen a handful (less than 5) with the 'old' style fast hitch. I would be curious to see how many tractors apart yours and mine are. Let me know if you are interested and we can exchange emails and serial numbers.
Hi there! Aren’t Farmall Cubs great! My serial number is 186253. Are you a member at FarmallCub(dot)com? They maintain a serial number database there that you can enter your information on. What are the differences between an old and new fasthitch?
@@vnthomas16 Hello, Cubs are a great little machine and mine has been in my family since 1978. It was the first 'farm' tractor I learned to drive. Mine is serial number 189036, so there are a few cubs between each of ours. Since they made around 245,000, they are relatively close. I was told, by an older cub collector, that my fasthitch was an 'old' style due to the long depth control lever. The later styles had a crank. I think there were a few other upgrades on the newer fasthitches. For a cub of our vintage a fasthitch makes them a little unique. I am a 10+ year member of FarmallCub(dot)com, but still need to get my tractor added to the database. Thanks for your response and I will send you an email to the email you have on the about page should you have any questions.
How and where do you check hyd oil at on a cub I think I know but please help I don’t know for sure and what weight do you use
michael welcher- For a cub with hydraulic life you check it at the box that is right behind the instrument panel or behind the engine. unscrew the big nut on the left side of the tractor if you see fluid running out it is full, if not use 90 weight hydraulic fluid and squirt it in til it comes out the hole and put the big nut back in.
If you would have used the colter it would have been a bit easier plowing as the soil would already be cut and just need to turn the sod over.
Soils pretty sandy has anyone used this set up on ground with more clay?
Our soils are clay/silt. The plow works great as long as the soil moisture is right. It was too dry in this video. Thanks for watching!
Any one please repley I have a yellow cub and don’t know where to check hyd oil or what weight
michael welcher you should check out the forum at farmallcub.com . There are a lot of very knowledgeable folks on there who know what they’re talking about. You should be able to find your answer there. Good luck!
Can it pull a box blade through thick weeds?
I don’t know?!? I’ve never tried it! I’m sure someone at some time made a box blade for a Cub though. Thanks for watching!
Why did you have to wipe off the grease?
Thomas Schmitt just so we wouldn’t be putting the grease into our soil... Thanks for watching!
You don't need to clean the mole board prior to use.
Chad Gronsten we chose to clean the grease off the moldboard because we did not want to put it into our soil. Grease does a great job of preventing rust on the moldboard. But subsequently, we now coat our moldboard with linseed oil. It too has done an excellent job at keeping the rust at bay, and I’m not worried about cleaning it off prior to use. Thanks!
Coat it in crisco or coconut oil
That would work too I suppose. I used linseed oil because it was already in the shop. Thanks for watching!
Yall need to speak up every time your head leaves the mic can hardly hear ya.
So it is 4 years ago and maybe this comment is a bit late. The job was terible. U tryed lik I did and u probably learn more in this 4 years. Your plow is not for a grasfield since it has no rolling knife to cut the turf and there should also be a "skimmer" (not sure what u call it in english) but the purpose of this is to cut of the edge of the soil u are turning so it fit better into the ground after it is turned and layed beside the other rows. Pardon my English (I m a Norwegian). The purpose of plowing is not to loosen up the soil but to turn the turf upside down 15 cm or lower into the grond so the old gras and weed die and compose leaving a fresh top to seed for new fresh gras to grow. Well I had to learn it the hard way like U...hehe - Hop u manage it better now.
Definitely plow better now. Had to learn how to make all the adjustments to get the plow to work correctly. We actually don't plow hardly at all because our fields are in permanent pasture. Takk skal du ha (Thank you)
That's an ugly looking tractor yucky, I prefer my MF 35 ;)
To each their own! Thanks for watching!