I have my dads little 1953 Farmall cub he bought form a neighbor somewhere around the mid 1950s. I grew up driving the little cub and now I use it to mow about 10 acres of hay and do a little gardening. It has been a great tractor.
My grandparents have a cub. It was the first tractor I drove. We use to pull a horse drawn plow with it. We used it for years. It's still on the old farm. Both my grandparents are dead now. But it's one of the things I want when my uncle passes on. It's been under cover It's whole life. Last I remember it was in pristine shape. Lots of memories.
New to channel. As a mechanic, I find it easier to get adjustable jets back to their correct position by screwing jet in & counting how many turns. Nice little cub though and seems to run great.
First tractor my dad ever bought......Right after the war my dad put his name on a list at the Ford dealership and every time he checked his name was further down the list.... so he went to the IH dealer and wasn't long before he had a Cub.... whole shebang... plow, disk, planter, cultivator, cotton duster......My brother (18 years older) would come home in the morning White from DDT after dusting neighbors Cotton all night....That is about all I can remember of the Cub He passed away in 2002.....
We had a Cub with a belly mower, we put the kids on it to learn about operating a tractor. Yours sounds great. I've never seen one with a disc harrow or a plow with quick hitch setup like you have,
Gotta love the little fella(CUB) they are a handy unit to have around never owned one though. Had 2 Farmall A’s years ago. Keep em comin OFB. Good vid.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Nice to see some Red with the Green again. About the Cub and it's 9 hp and 9 mph; they were originally designed for a one-horse farm, aimed at the southeast, where the whole place was under 50 acres. Because of this the little guys were never really expected to be roaded more than maybe 1/4 mile or so. They were supposed to be so small that everything could be removed by hand with hand tools and easily fixed by the farmer who now didn't have to feed and pasture his horse so he had more cropland for growth. The tach and Fast Hitch are definitely a bit more rare than the bolt on items but that old Howard Rotovater has to just be the stuff. Need to dig that out and get here going too. Nice video.
Starting in either 56 or 57 they offered 2 versions of the cub, 1 version had the taller muffler above the hood, it was considered a row crop tractor, the other with the lower exhaust was their entry into the lo-boy tractor, this version changed drastically over the years, last winter I made my wife park outside while I restored my grandfather's 51 cub, fun project, it runs well and is very handy, with the price of fuel I've been using it for jobs such as returning empty grain carts to the field and I even raked some hay with it, that didn't work out well because of the fixed draw bar, it drug a lot, your lucky to have all those attachments
The underslung exhaust had nothing to do with the tractors designation. It became standard on all tractors in 1955 with the regular vertical exhaust offered as optional. The Cub low boy had the final drives turned foreword and shorter knees on the front axle so the entire tractor was lowered almost 12 inches hence the low boy designation. The low boy was built from 1955 until 1968.
Got a little 1960 cub myself with the despeeder and Howard L28 rotovator. I gotta say I’m a little jealous of your little fast hitch mower you’ve got for it. Handy little tractor these cubs are. Mine is the same way as that one. Takes a couple minutes of warming up until you really get it to do much of anything when it’s cold out. Can’t even be a late vs. early thing because mine has an older motor in it out of a power unit. Starts right up every time though.
It really can’t mow much more than an average height yard. Tractor just doesn’t have the balls to keep it spun up. Gotta be careful using it to cause even with the overrunning clutch it will try to push when you want to stop and cub breaks are kinda trash.
Nice original looking cub! You talking difference in both cubs running, like my Dad always said about late 60's Muscle cars, have 100 same engine models & 10 or so would just blow the rest away!!!🤣👍😎
I have a lo boy with a fast hitch just like that and a newer 184 with a loader on it handy for doing yard work if I put 100 pounds in bucket I can barely steer the little thing it handles mulch ok
Have you ever heard of the Paquette’s Farmall tractor museum? Its the largest Farmall and international collection in the world, it’s about 30 minutes from my house here in Florida, the owner died and they’re closing at the end of this month. I’ve heard an auction company out of the Midwest is selling off all the inventory. CZcams it, there’s been several videos made of the tractors, it’s very impressive!
Cool little tractor we have something similar to that but are disc and plow plus field cultivator hooks up to are wheelhorse with hydraulics and three point use it on the garden love the video
There’s 2 thing I learned about IH tractors after farming with them for years with dad. Grinding Gears is a typical Tuesday with them and they always start. You can’t kill those old gals
My grandfather had a cub,but he restored it,and let us grandkids mow his grass with it. We thought we were big time driving that around .Not that far away from Lakecity mi. So you would have bought that at Volkers
That cub sure runs like a sowing machine. I don't think you will see any future electric battery tractors sitting for years and then go out one day and have it running in a few hours. Won't be able to even find a battery to fit it. Lol I have looked at many of the cubs at antique tractor shows but have never got to run one. Growing up we had a Ford 2N and later a Ferguson TO-20.
What a neat little cub! I have a 57’ too but, mine doesn’t have the fast hitch. I agree with you they can be a pain to work on. It’s kind of dumb you have to pull the fuel tank/hood off as one assembly to work on them. The cubs can be handy though.
You can pull a spark plug and put it direct on the coil wire. If you have spark their you know you have 12v (or6v) and the coil is good. Then your problem is pin pointed to the condenser or points/wires.
We have a 5040 Allis if the weather is below 60 degrees you have to use either for the first time you start it everyday, it's been that way since they bought it bran new in 1979
Restoring my great grandads Oliver 550 he got brand new in 1962. It needs some new 13.6x26 tires. Crazy expensive to buy new. Any tips on someone somewhere that might have some used for reasonable price?
I have not had to pull the carb on my cub yet. But I have heard it both ways...do you have to reset and adjust the governor linkage when you pull the carb off? I have heard some people say yes when you pull the carb and you have to adjust it and others say not.
@@Oliver66FarmBoy I guess that answers my question. They said something about linkages. Which the amount it moves would, but that also doesn't mean it will change if you remove it. I know it's not the same but when replacing the head gaskets on my Kohler on my Zero turn mower unhooking it's governor screws it up and you have to reset it. But it sounds like the c60 engine you can remove it without changing it's setting.
You mean the merged company that formed when International went bankrupt and Tenneco Case was on the verge of the same problem. Then they made it a few more years. We’re on the verge of bankruptcy again and got bought out by FIAT to form CNH global? Because those tractors don’t even use IH Red for the paint job. They are just an Italian abortion riding an American name.
Never said Oliver was the best. You just said red is best. Red is a color. Then you say it isn’t the color. Which is it. Make up your mind? Anybody that even remotely associates CNH with JI Case or International Harvester has no respect for either brand. They are just whoring themselves out to say they are running “red”.
Kudos to your Dad for raising such a smart man👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I have my dads little 1953 Farmall cub he bought form a neighbor somewhere around the mid 1950s. I grew up driving the little cub and now I use it to mow about 10 acres of hay and do a little gardening. It has been a great tractor.
My grandparents have a cub. It was the first tractor I drove. We use to pull a horse drawn plow with it. We used it for years. It's still on the old farm. Both my grandparents are dead now. But it's one of the things I want when my uncle passes on. It's been under cover It's whole life. Last I remember it was in pristine shape. Lots of memories.
New to channel. As a mechanic, I find it easier to get adjustable jets back to their correct position by screwing jet in & counting how many turns. Nice little cub though and seems to run great.
First tractor my dad ever bought......Right after the war my dad put his name on a list at the Ford dealership and every time he checked his name was further down the list.... so he went to the IH dealer and wasn't long before he had a Cub.... whole shebang... plow, disk, planter, cultivator, cotton duster......My brother (18 years older) would come home in the morning White from DDT after dusting neighbors Cotton all night....That is about all I can remember of the Cub He passed away in 2002.....
We had a Cub with a belly mower, we put the kids on it to learn about operating a tractor. Yours sounds great. I've never seen one with a disc harrow or a plow with quick hitch setup like you have,
Gotta love the little fella(CUB) they are a handy unit to have around never owned one though. Had 2 Farmall A’s years ago. Keep em comin OFB. Good vid.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
The fast hitch makes them a lot handier. It’s easier to find the fh implements to.
Nice to see some Red with the Green again. About the Cub and it's 9 hp and 9 mph; they were originally designed for a one-horse farm, aimed at the southeast, where the whole place was under 50 acres. Because of this the little guys were never really expected to be roaded more than maybe 1/4 mile or so. They were supposed to be so small that everything could be removed by hand with hand tools and easily fixed by the farmer who now didn't have to feed and pasture his horse so he had more cropland for growth.
The tach and Fast Hitch are definitely a bit more rare than the bolt on items but that old Howard Rotovater has to just be the stuff. Need to dig that out and get here going too. Nice video.
Starting in either 56 or 57 they offered 2 versions of the cub, 1 version had the taller muffler above the hood, it was considered a row crop tractor, the other with the lower exhaust was their entry into the lo-boy tractor, this version changed drastically over the years, last winter I made my wife park outside while I restored my grandfather's 51 cub, fun project, it runs well and is very handy, with the price of fuel I've been using it for jobs such as returning empty grain carts to the field and I even raked some hay with it, that didn't work out well because of the fixed draw bar, it drug a lot, your lucky to have all those attachments
The underslung exhaust had nothing to do with the tractors designation. It became standard on all tractors in 1955 with the regular vertical exhaust offered as optional. The Cub low boy had the final drives turned foreword and shorter knees on the front axle so the entire tractor was lowered almost 12 inches hence the low boy designation. The low boy was built from 1955 until 1968.
I like this video Ethan and have 2 cubs of my own a 1958 cub low boy and 1963 cub I plan to take my 63 to the fair this year
That cub has a tachometer. Fast hitch also and a reducer! Sweet cub!
Got a little 1960 cub myself with the despeeder and Howard L28 rotovator. I gotta say I’m a little jealous of your little fast hitch mower you’ve got for it. Handy little tractor these cubs are. Mine is the same way as that one. Takes a couple minutes of warming up until you really get it to do much of anything when it’s cold out. Can’t even be a late vs. early thing because mine has an older motor in it out of a power unit. Starts right up every time though.
It really can’t mow much more than an average height yard. Tractor just doesn’t have the balls to keep it spun up. Gotta be careful using it to cause even with the overrunning clutch it will try to push when you want to stop and cub breaks are kinda trash.
Nice shape old equipment. Jack on baler looks like bumper jack for cars in the 50-60s.
Nice original looking cub! You talking difference in both cubs running, like my Dad always said about late 60's Muscle cars, have 100 same engine models & 10 or so would just blow the rest away!!!🤣👍😎
I honestly think it has to do with mine having a mag. I think the ignition is a little hotter.
Just subscribed . I like the Howard gear reduction. Never knew about those.
Nice looking cub sounds good also.
Great video Ethan- love seeing the cub!
Thanks
I have a lo boy with a fast hitch just like that and a newer 184 with a loader on it handy for doing yard work if I put 100 pounds in bucket I can barely steer the little thing it handles mulch ok
I have to admit when you said it will either start or not I looked at the video length and went well it didn’t start easy lol.
Same here lol
Nice little 🚜🚜🚜🚜 Ethan👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍great video interesting content.
Know this, a Farmall Cub will always start 💪
Have you ever heard of the Paquette’s Farmall tractor museum? Its the largest Farmall and international collection in the world, it’s about 30 minutes from my house here in Florida, the owner died and they’re closing at the end of this month. I’ve heard an auction company out of the Midwest is selling off all the inventory. CZcams it, there’s been several videos made of the tractors, it’s very impressive!
Cool little tractor we have something similar to that but are disc and plow plus field cultivator hooks up to are wheelhorse with hydraulics and three point use it on the garden love the video
There’s 2 thing I learned about IH tractors after farming with them for years with dad. Grinding Gears is a typical Tuesday with them and they always start. You can’t kill those old gals
They carried the gear grinding all the way through till the 86 series.
My grandfather had a cub,but he restored it,and let us grandkids mow his grass with it. We thought we were big time driving that around .Not that far away from Lakecity mi. So you would have bought that at Volkers
I can’t remember. Been to long.
That cub sure runs like a sowing machine. I don't think you will see any future electric battery tractors sitting for years and then go out one day and have it running in a few hours. Won't be able to even find a battery to fit it. Lol I have looked at many of the cubs at antique tractor shows but have never got to run one. Growing up we had a Ford 2N and later a Ferguson TO-20.
Little tractor sounds good and runs well
Thanks.
The despeeder (which is what I think the cub guys call it) is worth as much as the tractor! That's a good tractor with all the attachments.
It’s only really worth anything if you have the tiller to go with it.
@@Oliver66FarmBoy yea but those guys out there with the tiller are willing to pay big bucks for one.
What a neat little cub! I have a 57’ too but, mine doesn’t have the fast hitch. I agree with you they can be a pain to work on. It’s kind of dumb you have to pull the fuel tank/hood off as one assembly to work on them. The cubs can be handy though.
The hood design was a real big fuck up on their part.
@@Oliver66FarmBoy I concur
You can pull a spark plug and put it direct on the coil wire. If you have spark their you know you have 12v (or6v) and the coil is good. Then your problem is pin pointed to the condenser or points/wires.
Long as the carb ain't gummed and the points open n shut shell go
You disk a field after you plow it! Not before. Wow.
That wasn’t a field it was a washed out dirt driveway…. Wow….
You did a good job buddy How often does your sister come home and see you guys be safe out there your buddy from Oxford NE
Not to often.
That is a nice clean original looking cub. You sure you can afford the lease payment on that from your sister. Haha
I’ve probably put more hours on it than she had by now.
I have a 1975 cub and it's just your 10 or 70 degrees it always starts and it's ready to go
Sweet little cub
Thanks.
We have a 5040 Allis if the weather is below 60 degrees you have to use either for the first time you start it everyday, it's been that way since they bought it bran new in 1979
Deck the head and increase the valve protrusion will solve that problem. Provided there is room when the piston is at tdc.
@@Oliver66FarmBoy thanks
Restoring my great grandads Oliver 550 he got brand new in 1962. It needs some new 13.6x26 tires. Crazy expensive to buy new. Any tips on someone somewhere that might have some used for reasonable price?
Buy new tires and be done with it. Used are nothing but trouble.
The only thing that would make this better is to have hydraulics for the implements.
I wonder if a single section drag was hooked to the chain between the weight brackets on the disk.
Doubt a cub would have enough ass to pull all that.
My 1948 runs great
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Is it a woods rm 42 bush hog for the cub
I have not had to pull the carb on my cub yet. But I have heard it both ways...do you have to reset and adjust the governor linkage when you pull the carb off? I have heard some people say yes when you pull the carb and you have to adjust it and others say not.
The carb has no effect on the governor.
@@Oliver66FarmBoy I guess that answers my question. They said something about linkages. Which the amount it moves would, but that also doesn't mean it will change if you remove it.
I know it's not the same but when replacing the head gaskets on my Kohler on my Zero turn mower unhooking it's governor screws it up and you have to reset it. But it sounds like the c60 engine you can remove it without changing it's setting.
Modern enough to have a tachometer....!
What was the engine sitting in front of the Cub, looked like CAT paint job?
3208
What is it worth?
I'd like to buy a tractor like this one. All I have is a hand tiller. Do you want to sell it?
Does this look like a for sale ad?
You ever need parts for those old gassers give me a call
What grade gas fuel do you run ? Can a guy run E blends? I just hot a 880 gas
Rec 90.
What kind of dog is Skeeter ?
Teeter is a mutt.
@@Oliver66FarmBoy they make the best dogs in my opinion.
@@hughperkins707 yep, had a black lab Sheppard mix from the pound. Best dog I ever had.
i found out they are so side heavy when raiseing them kinda dangerous i think
There is nothing dangerous about them at all. If there was they wouldn’t have been built for 33 years.
Not saying the disc is junk but I think the disc on the power king would do a lot better job
I don’t have a power king and how is a lighter disk going to do a better job?
USE TERINAL SPREADERS ITS NOT GOOD TO POUND THE BATTERY POST LOL
But red is the best
If red was the best International would have never went bankrupt.
Case ih
You mean the merged company that formed when International went bankrupt and Tenneco Case was on the verge of the same problem. Then they made it a few more years. We’re on the verge of bankruptcy again and got bought out by FIAT to form CNH global? Because those tractors don’t even use IH Red for the paint job. They are just an Italian abortion riding an American name.
Heck with the color it’s quality mr oliver/white/the killed iff part of agco
Never said Oliver was the best. You just said red is best. Red is a color. Then you say it isn’t the color. Which is it. Make up your mind? Anybody that even remotely associates CNH with JI Case or International Harvester has no respect for either brand. They are just whoring themselves out to say they are running “red”.
you can keep your foul talk and the video....
What was the purpose of wasting both our time with this stupid comment? Just shut up and move along snowflake.