I'm getting another tractor!!!

Steven Corio · Nov 15, 2019

Will C said: ↑

What a neat tractor to have. My brother and I have our grandfather's (he passed when I was 6 months old) Allis Chalmers G.
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Thats a neat tractor. All the small organic farms around me want those.

clemsonfor · Nov 15, 2019

The G is the weird one with the rear engine right? If it's the one I'm thinking it is there several companies that copy that one for the small organic farming market

Steven Corio · Nov 15, 2019

clemsonfor said: ↑

The G is the weird one with the rear engine right? If it's the one I'm thinking it is there several companies that copy that one for the small organic farming market
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Yep you are correct!

Flamestead · Nov 18, 2019

clemsonfor said: ↑

This will be the second one I have acquired in a month or so. I bought a "so cheap I couldn't turn it down" Yanmar 186 a month ago as a project for one day. And then last weekend this one. View attachment 233017

I have kind of wanted a cub or some other really old tractor for years. But what makes this tractor special is that it's my grandad's tractor!! I went and visited my second cousin who got it 20+ years ago when my grandad went into a nursing home. He used it to garden. So anyway I went to let him know if he ever thought of getting rid of it to let me know first because I would be interested in it. He told me he still had it and said let's go up to the shed and look at it. (I also kind of avoided this trip for years fearing he might of got rid of it and I didn't want to hear that). Well he tells me it was a cub , I actually was thinking it was an A. And said it's a small tractor and if I wanted something to pull a bush hog this was not it. I said no I just want to have it cause it was my grandad's and I want to ride my son on it, ride around and maybe cultivate the garden for fun. He said well this is the perfect tractor. He said it will need a regulator he thinks, and the wireing redone as the cloth is rotting off the wires. He said He has everything for it, all the tool bars, sweeps, a one disk plow, a pull harrow I think he said, planter, planter boxes and cultipacker wheel, a sickle bar mower. He asked if I wanted to restore it or what, and I said , no I want to get it running well and leave it just like it sits, just how I grew up remembering it and how my grandad used it. He said that I could have it!! And that he hadn't ever gotten rid of it over the years cause it was my grandad's. I couldn't believe it, and said sure I would love to have it and thank you so much!!!

I will need to pick it up sometime, but I am not in a hurry as it's busy time of the year but I can't wait, I may end up with it sooner than I think. I have wanted this tractor for years!
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Congrats - I’m excited for you! I missed out on a very similar deal. My dad borrowed my grandfather’s Cub back in the late 60’s. After he saw how much my brother and I loved to pretend to drive it, he told dad to hang onto it. We grew up with that as the only tractor on the place (until a JD M arrived in our mid teens). No battery start in the Cub most of those years, and no hydraulics, just the left hand spring-assist lever. Flash forward a few years, and I’m living out west, but ask dad to hang onto the tractor for me for when I would eventually move back east. He didn’t. Lots of good memories hauling firewood, plowing, mowing hay, ... Very glad you got yours!
And +2 on the ytmag site - lots of deep knowledge about these over there.

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I'm getting another tractor!!!

Steven Corio

clemsonfor

Steven Corio

Flamestead