[Farmall] still earning their keep

Michael Schmudlach mschmudlach at charter.net
Mon Mar 17 05:46:43 PDT 2014


Sounds like you are having fun.
We still have to keep water running 24/7 to keep the water lines from freezing.  Frost is 8' deep at the driveway.

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> On Mar 17, 2014, at 5:46 AM, Al Jones <farmallsupera at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> Saturday was the first one we've had in I-don't-know-when where we had both good weather, and ground dry enough to really do anything.  I used "Old Ugly," my late '50 Super A just about all afternoon.  I worked my parents' garden, my in-laws' garden, the FFA garden at school, and finally my personal garden--I disked my parents' and at school, and disked, plowed, and disked my garden, and plowed my in-laws'.  I also used the plow and my little #100 IH blade to build a water furrow across the back yard at our new house.  A lot of water comes off the back of the house and even though we are on a hill it gets wet back there if we have much rain.  I was right proud of how it came out, but I'll see how good I did once the sun comes up.....anyway I have decided that Fast Hitch really is the greatest thing on earth.  It was so nice to swap implements in just seconds instead of 5-10 minutes!
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> Old Ugly originally came out of MD, a tractor friend in VA bought it and I bought it from him.  It really is ugly in terms of paint but it's solid.  It smokes just a little bit at startup, but it cranks good, is still 6 volt, and has the quietest transmission I have ever heard on a Super A.  I added the Fast Hitch a couple years ago (I've had it about 3 years) and accumulated the disk, plow, and blade. I also got a nice Mechanical one row tobacco setter, complete with barrel.  I want to paint it but it won't be a restored tractor per se.....I have added some stuff to it to try to replicate what my granddaddy's Super A (now restored like "factory") looked like from 1961 until 2005----sealed beam lights, a "deluxe" seat from a 140, and some other goodies.
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> Al
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: jtchall at nc.rr.com
>> Sent: Mar 16, 2014 9:53 PM
>> To: farmall <farmall at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Subject: [Farmall] still earning their keep
>> 
>> Been very quiet here lately, too cold to go to the shop?
>> 
>> It was time for the M to earn its keep this past week. We used it to topdress wheat with liquid nitrogen. It’s been doing it since the 50’s. I don’t know how it hasn’t rusted into a heap of brown scrap metal, must be a lot of lead in that old paint. It has a mounted John Blue sprayer with a ground drive pump. Something a bit nostalgic about sending that tractor to the field, got to love the sound of its exhaust.
>> 
>> I think one of the Super A’s is trying to tell me something. It decided to die while towing the 500 gallon trailer I haul nitrogen in. I had just got  the tank in place so I could fill the M. I checked to see if I had fire to the distributor, was it getting gas etc. Sometimes it would hit, other times it would run for a few seconds,eventually it wouldn’t do anything. Fuel and fire seemed OK, nothing was making sense, or was it the really cold wind making me not care. The next day I found the problem, the contact point on the moveable piece of the points had fallen off. Installed a new set, problem solved. Getting close to spring so time to pull both A’s in the shop for an oil change.
>> 
>> John Hall
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