[AT] Farmall Super A vs 100

[Al Jones]

No problem Charlie!  :)

A: 39-47
Super A: LATE '47-54
Super A-1: 1954 (has the pressure cooling system and water pump, larger engine like a 100 but it is "still" a Super A.  No factory fast hitch, though some might've had one added while sitting on the dealers' lots beside new 100's.
100: 54-56
130: 56-58
140: 58-79

The straight Farmall A looks like the others in many ways, but is a different animal in terms of the attachments--very little will swap with it and the newer tractors, implement-wise.  BTW Fast Hitch was an option, some newer tractors may have the "standard" Super A hitch.

Al

-----Original Message-----
>From: charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
>Sent: May 9, 2012 5:28 PM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Subject: Re: [AT] Farmall Super A vs 100
>
>Grant,   maybe Al Jones will speak up.  He's the resident Super A expert.  I 
>don’t have any books that cover them but I would have sworn that a 100 was 
>basically the same tractor as a Super A, just a few years newer.   I don't 
>know when the A's became super A's or what changes took place during their 
>run.  I will tell you that a Super A, in it's time was as good a one row 
>cultivating tractor as there was on this planet and that is coming from an 
>AC man.   They are still popular here for folks with big gardens.
>
>Charlie
>
>-----Original Message----- 
>From: Grant Brians
>Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 12:07 PM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>Subject: [AT] Farmall Super A vs 100
>
>No, I'm not looking to start a fight betwwen the two models of tractors.
>LOL. I came across an ad for a Super A with cultivating bars on it. I have
>three 100's that we use for cultivating, pipe and carrying produce. The
>Super A shows as smaller engine, weighing 240 pounds less and older. I'm
>debating purchase to use as either a cultivating tractor or a parts unit.
>I'm thinking I should hold out for a parts unit that is the 100 for full
>crossover of parts and that since I am too tall to operate these, that I
>should think on cultivating tractors still holding out for the Oliver 77's I
>love?
>          Grant Brians
>          Hollister,California Vegetables, Fruit and Nuts Farmer
>
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