[AT] Cubs

[Larry D. Goss]

The first time I remember seeing wording like you heard George use was
in literature advertising the John Deere L.  

As I understand it, part of the rationale for the aliquots of land in
the public survey system containing 40 acres was because this is a much
land as a man with a single team of horses or mules could maintain.
This same amount of land was supposed to be able to sustain the farmer
and his family.  It also just so happens (duh!) that when you divide a
square mile into a checkerboard pattern, each aliquot ends up being 40
acres.  It's kind of a chicken and egg situation.  If none of these
reasons make sense to you, then make up your own story.  :-)

It was nice to travel through Farmer's "greenway" trail last month.  As
I was driving over it in Ol' 191, I was reminded of the way the fields
on the farm where I grew up were broken into smaller patches because
they needed to be "horse size".  And there were a number of large trees
in between the fields and along the fence rows which were absolutely
essential for the welfare of the horses.  That's one of the things
that's missing from Farmer's nature trail -- not enough shade trees at
the edges of the fields.

Now that the farm where I grew up is farmed by modern big machinery, all
the green belts are gone, and so are the trees.  They "got in the road"
of the equipment.

Larry

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Robinson
Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2004 12:00 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Cubs

George Willer wrote:

>Dave,
>
>The Cub is a separate tractor, introduced about 8 years after the first
A.
>It's about 2/3 the size, and half the power... and much more loveable!
>
>I expected to replace my first Cub with an A when I sold it but I
haven't.
>Instead I have 13 Cubs now... must be well over 125 horsepower!  :-)
>
>George Willer
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "David Myers" <walking_tractor at yahoo.com>
>
>
>
>  
>
>>George and all other Cubbers, help!
>>Working on our Farmall A yesterday and got to thinking
>>(yeah, and it hurts too!) is an A a grown up Cub or is
>>a Cub just a scale model of a real tractor (the A)?
>>Inquiring minds need to know.
>>
>>=====
>>Dave Myers
>>    
>>




    What do you mean "scale model of a real tractor"... A CUB is a real 
tractor...   :-)   Unlike those lawn tractors everybody has around. Any 
doubt was thoroughly dispelled to anyone that watched the sled pulling 
and plowing at Cubfest.
    George made an interesting comparison at Cubfest telling someone 
that the Cub was built to do the same work as a team of horses. I have 
thought about that several times since and it works out about right. A 
good heavy team could likely exert much more brute force for a short 
time and pull a bigger plow but the Cub can run like the Energiser Bunny

and keep going and going and going... The Cub does not have to rest and 
feeding takes seconds instead of all of that slow chewing and resting. 
Probably a 3rd of the teams work day is actually down time if you count 
the morning prep, resting, feeding, watering and evening work to put 
them in for the night. The mighty Cub can spend all of that time working

and the operator still doesn't have to put in any more total hours a 
day. The Cub would maybe be pulling a bit smaller plow but pulling it 
much faster. Not only can it cover a lot of ground that way but the 
increased speed  will break the ground up better and leave a smoother 
plowing job. As I shift some of my work load to different directions I 
keep feeling the need for a second Cub. It would be nice to have one 
just for cultivating farm market stuff.

And they are just so danged cute...

"farmer"
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