[AT] here I go again

[Ron Cook]

Thanks for the information, John.  This is my second Farmall.  The other 
is a 1566.  A couple of extremes, you might say.  Until this A, my small 
Farmall experience has been with an H.  I won't be worrying much about 
correct police.  This tractor is to be my sweetcorn and potato 
cultivating/hilling machine next year.  It has to work or it can't 
stay.  New sweeps, a couple shanks, and the rear gang and it is ready.  
The battery box, rear light, fuse holder, wiring harness and a repaint 
can come as they will.  It really is in pretty nice shape.  I will need 
to pick up some manuals so I can operate and repair the thing properly.  
I do not even know what model the cultivator is.  It looks as if it has 
always been on the tractor.  It has a swinging drawbar that shows very 
little use, so I imagine it spent most of its life with that off and the 
rear cultivator gang on.  I don't think they can both be there at the 
same time, but I am not entirely sure.

The canning factory that I sprayed sweetcorn for had a 140.  I never 
operated it, of course, but I thought it looked like a pretty good 
machine.  They only used it for mowing their grounds.  It had a Woods 
belly mower.

Ron Cook
Salix, IA
On 7/20/2014 2:27 PM, jtchall at nc.rr.com wrote:
> If you need parts, look to the Southeast. Agri-supply should have
> aftermarket shanks, cuffs and wedgebolts.  Anything else you need should be
> able to come from a salvage yard. I recommend Fitts in Cascade, Va, and
> Greenes in eastern N.C.  Since those tractors are still in high demand for
> gardening here, the prices of some of the cultivator and fertilizer
> distributor parts can be  expensive. A lot of parts are being reproduced but
> may be more for function than accuracy---bear this in mind if you are trying
> to please the correct police. If you get in a jam on used parts, send me an
> off-list email and I can put you on to 3 "local" shops that part these
> tractors out and carry aftermarket parts.
>
> By the way, the Super A is in my opinion the best of offset series. I've
> driven them all and the Super A's handle the best. We do have one with a
> deluxe seat upgrade that is nice.  Maybe I'm partial to these since it was
> the model I learned to drive on. I can't stand the jumbo steering wheels or
> gear reduciton steering boxes on some of the 1xx series. Most folks around
> here love 140's, probably because so many came from the dealer 12 volt and
> with fast-hitch.
>
> John Hall
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