[AT] New Old Tractor Purchase, was Plowing in Ohio/Long

Thu Sep 20 06:21:19 PDT 2007

Dang.  If you went 30 miles on hwy 3 you could have gone just a few more 
miles on 3 and turned onto 360 and it would have taken you back to 295 just 
north of Richmond.  Some of it would have been 2 lane but all of it is as 
good or better than 3 with not much traffic and a lot of nice scenery.  Oh 
well, I'm sorry I didn't fill you in on that before.

Have you got the bugs out of the Cub yet?

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Jones" <aljones at ncfreedom.net>
To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'" 
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Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 9:00 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] New Old Tractor Purchase, was Plowing in Ohio/Long

> Charlie, I appreciate the compliment.  I have seen a lot of locals move
> some BIG tractors on a trailer with NO chains!
>
> Yes that bridge on 295 was un-nerving.  I get the heebie-jeebies just on
> the big bridge at New Bern.  We went out on 95 right through Richmond.
> It wasn't so bad on Saturday, but it was bad enough I didn't much want
> to go back through with a tractor on the trailer.  At one point it looks
> like the road is going to send you careening right into the dome of a
> big church just before the road banks hard to the right....anyway we got
> off onto Hwy. 3 and took that about 30 miles and then a couple more
> turns and we were there.  It was actually very easy to find.
>
> The hardest driving of the trip was negotiating into the shopping center
> parking lot by the Olive Garden in Greenville!  It didn't help that
> E-Z-U had a game that day......
>
> Al
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of charlie hill
> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 8:36 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] New Old Tractor Purchase, was Plowing in Ohio/Long
>
> Al, I meant to write back before you left and ask you exactly where you
> were
> going to pick it up but I forgot until it was too late.  It's possible
> that
> it might have been easier for you to get off of 295 (or 95) onto 360 and
> go
> in the back way.  The scenery would have been better if nothing else but
>
> it's too late for that now.
>
> I was just kidding you about your  chain down job.  Actually I was
> impressed.  You had it chained up like a pro.
>
> I've been through Richmond on I 95 one time since 295 opened.  It's a
> good
> bit closer that way but that one trip reminded me why I don't do it.
> That
> bridge is a bit discomforting.  I don't really mind high or long bridges
> but
> that one is strange.  It's a suspension bridge with only one set of
> towers
> and cables down the middle and 3 hugh concrete lanes cantilevered off
> the
> sides.  I can't imagine what the stresses on that thing must be with
> loaded
> tractor trailers running in those outside lanes.  I wish I could see the
>
> structure under it.  Then again maybe it's just as well I can't.
>
> Charlie
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Al Jones" <aljones at ncfreedom.net>
> To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'"
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> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 10:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] New Old Tractor Purchase, was Plowing in Ohio/Long
>
>
>> Charlie,
>>
>> My philosophy when I tie a tractor down is I want it to be so if the
>> trailer comes loose, passes the truck, jumps a median, takes out a
>> guardrail, flips twice end over end, hits a tree, and comes to rest on
>> its side; the tractor will STILL be tied down to the trailer!
>>
>> This was the longest trip I have ever made pulling something like
> this.
>> It wasn't too bad going southbound on 95 on a Saturday afternoon.  I
>> made the mistake of staying on 95 through Richmond.  I came back
> around
>> it on 295 and that was much easier--though crossing the James River
> made
>> me a little squeamish--I don't like big bridges.  IT pulled real good
>> and the gas mileage was better than I was afraid--just a shade under
>> 15MPG.
>>
>> Plus, we got to go through Greenville and eat at the Olive Garden for
>> supper. :)
>>
>> Al
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of charlie
> hill
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 8:10 AM
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>> Subject: Re: [AT] New Old Tractor Purchase, was Plowing in Ohio/Long
>>
>> Looks nice from here Al.  I don't think you had to worry about it
>> jumping
>> off of the trailer either.  grins.
>>
>> Glad you had a good and trouble free trip.
>>
>> Charlie
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Al Jones" <aljones at ncfreedom.net>
>> To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'"
>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 8:16 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] New Old Tractor Purchase, was Plowing in Ohio/Long
>>
>>
>>> Charlie, here's a picture one the way home at a Wendy's, I believe we
>>> were near Richmond.
>>>
>>> http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1030/1389121391_fa9345cb07.jpg
>>>
>>> I'll summarize by posting what I copied/pasted from the Red Power
>> Forum.
>>>
>>> I found it on Ebay, 5 hrs. away in King George, VA. We had a fun
> trip.
>>> This was the longest I have ever pulled my trailer and it did great.
>> (I
>>> forgot to grease the wheel bearings!  It did ok though.)
>>>
>>>
>>> The 6 volt charging system WORKS! You have to give it a little RPM
> but
>>> it does indeed appear to be charging the battery.... one headlight
>> still
>>> works. The rear light is not original and appears to have one of the
>> old
>>> pancake style sealed beam lights wedged in there.
>>>
>>> It very much has the "Sherwin Williams Restoration" going on. Paint
>>> right over old grease/dirt in many places. The tin looks pretty good
>>> though. Not all beat up. From 50 feet away, it looks nice.
>>>
>>> The set screw holding the RH steering arm is in bad shape--right much
>>> flop, but the steering gear itself is pretty tight. LH tie rod looks
> a
>>> little tweaked.
>>>
>>> It has the newer ZENITH carb. A little bit-a choke and the little
>> booger
>>> fires right up. It has a definate miss though, one cylinder sounds
>> plumb
>>> dead. My heart sank to my stomach the first time I heard it run.
> But,
>> I
>>> think/hope the miss is a bad plug, bad plug wire, needs a tuneup,
> etc.
>>> It starts up and runs too good to have more serious trouble--I hope.
>> In
>>> other words, I hope I haven't bought myself a paperweight.....  It
> has
>>> been changed over to IH distributor ignition--no magneto.
>>>
>>> The touch control wouldn't work this evening and when I checked it,
> it
>>> was way low on fluid--I found that there's a pinhole leak on the
>>> pressure line where it's soldered (?) to the block which bolts to the
>>> back of the hyd. pump. I added a little fluid and the system works
>> fine
>>> with no load. So I gotta get that brazed. My first fear was the pump
>> was
>>> bad and pumping Hy-Tran into the engine. That doesn't seem to be
>>> happening but I'll have to keep it watched.
>>>
>>> The brakes are good enough I can stall it in any gear. (OR should
> that
>>> be: the engine's in such bad shape I can stall it in any gear?
> Again,
>> I
>>> hope it ain't a paperweight.....  )
>>>
>>> Seems to smoke just a touch at startup or when I "loaded" it with the
>>> brakes. Maybe that's just because it hasn't been run much---or see
>>> above!
>>>
>>> OH--the oil gauge--it's the older gauge with the IHC emblem on the
>> face
>>> instead of the IH. Did any Cub's ever have that gauge? From the looks
>> of
>>> things it's a '49 by the S/N but I gotta go look if it's early, late,
>> or
>>> whatever. Most of the codes on it are late '48 that I have looked at
>> so
>>> far.
>>>
>>> It has Goodyear tires all the way around. One front is a replacement,
>>> but I am suspicious that the other three may be original. If not,
> they
>>> are way-old. Wish they had some sorta date code I could read.
>>>
>>> In general, I wish this tractor could talk and tell me what it's seen
>>> and done. As I said, all the mounting holes except the ones for the
>>> drawbar have cork in them, except also for the two lower ones on the
>>> clutch housing. I wonder if it didn't do a lot of sicklebar mowing or
>>> belt work. It has the belt pulley attachment on it, but the flat
>> pulley
>>> is gone--it has the sicklebar mower pulley (I think) on it instead.
>> Cubs
>>> around here cultivated, cultivated, cultivated. And put out lots of
>>> fertilizer at the same time. This one doesn't appear to have done as
>>> much as that. I got it as a bare tractor--no implements, not even a
>>> drawbar.
>>>
>>> I have to confess: I bought it with the idea of possibly re-selling
> it
>>> for a modest "profit." It's beginning to grow on me though  ...and
> the
>>> seat is actually very comfortable....
>>>
>>> Al
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
>>> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of charlie
>> hill
>>> Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 9:52 AM
>>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>>> Subject: Re: [AT] Plowing in Ohio/Long
>>>
>>> Al, give us an update.  How was the trip, was the Cub as advertised,
>>> etc.?
>>>
>>> Charlie
>>>
>>>
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