[Farmall] drawbar bolts

[Mike]

I am with John on this subject. I have several Cubs, and they each do
their assigned jobs with little complaint.
<http://public.fotki.com/mikesloane/farmall_cubs/> I maintain them and
fix what breaks, but I don't go crazy with fancy paint jobs and decals.
I even (heresy!) converted a few of them to 12 volt alternator. The '48
smokes a little, and one of these days I guess it will need new rings,
but it starts and runs just fine.

Mike

On 4/13/2013 10:14 AM, E. John Puckett wrote:
> I have owned cubs for nearly 30 years, and agree, there are
> somethings I wish were different.  You need to remeber however, that
> a cub was designed with the intention of being produced cheaply
> enough to get the farmers still using horse to change to a tractor,
> and it did that job quite well.  It cost about the same as 2 teams,
> but could work several teams into the ground, with the only limit on
> how long it could work being the operator.  I do not know if it is
> correct, but I have heard that the cub was expected to last 7 years.
> Mine still work for a living, though not as hard as they were
> intended for, but my newest one is 64 years old and I refurbished it
> 2 years ago.  You will note, I said refurbished, not restored.  I
> have never in my life seen a tractor that was actually restored. On
> 4/13/2013 6:09 AM, jtchall at nc.rr.com wrote:
>> ...... I will admit there are several things on a CUB that IH did
>> real cheap that I would love to "fix".
>>
>> John