[AT] Farmall Cub

[Mike Sloane]

I was staying out of this thread, but I have to agree with George: I 
only have 5 of them - one with a 22 sickle bar, one with an IH C-3, one 
with a C-42, one with a Woods L59, and a 184 with an IH 60" (no name) 
rotary. All of them do their jobs just fine within their limits. For 
many years I cut about 6 acre of my and a neighbor's grass with either 
the C-3 or the Woods, but they weren't great with very thick tall grass 
that I have here in the Spring. Sometimes I had to cut half width swaths 
just to get the stuff down. But, once the initial heavy growth stopped 
in late May, I could use the Cubs for a very nice job. Of course, if you 
have a lot of low branches, narrow paths, and complex garden borders, a 
5' mower on a farm tractor isn't going to be ideal. Since I got the 184, 
I have pretty much given up on the Woods and IH C-3 - it is more 
powerful, rides lower, and has an electric "live" PTO. When the grass 
really gets ahead of me, I use the Farmall 340 with a Woods RM-306 
<http://public.fotki.com/mikesloane/farmall_340/f340_8_24_03b.html>. 
That works well, but is only suited to open areas, for obvious reasons.

As others have suggested, the key to effective cutting with a Cub is 
keeping the blades sharp and the engine in tune.

For my Farmall Cubs, see: 
<http://public.fotki.com/mikesloane/farmall_cubs/> and for the 184, see: 
<http://public.fotki.com/mikesloane/international_184/>

And I have been an ATIS member since the Forsyth County days but have no 
idea when that was. I used to type the Lancaster Farming "Mailbox 
Markets" ads in by hand (with a lot of typo's!), since the paper wasn't 
on-line back then. :-)

Mike

George Willer wrote:
> Gene,
> 
> Pay no attention to Evil Dave... he's dramatically over pessimistic about
> Cubs.  :-(  He even has trouble mowing with a supposed 19 HP tractor!  Just
> think about the thousands of Cubs that were sold primarily as mowing
> tractors. :-) 
> 
> Cubs have a distinct advantage... they're so little you can have a different
> one for each implement!
> 
> If you feel like playing with a few Cubs to get a good feel about them there
> are 14 nice runners here (NFS) plus a couple parts Cubs.
> 
> George Willer