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To answer a few questions as I understand it from poking around in the IH parts book. First, the final drives are not exactly alike on the Loboys, but I am sure you could get a Cub and swap out all the parts you needed to make a loboy. But if you don't own either, why not just buy a Loboy? The A, B and Cs are all larger than the Cub and all were designed as row crop tractors, especially the Bs and Cs. Based on the tricycle design, I would tend to eleminate the B up front. The C/Super C is about twice the size and HP as a Cub but with a much higher center of gravity, so if "small" is important, I think the C is out. The As and especially the Super As are the closest you will come to your goal. Unless you live in an area with steep terrain, the Super A can plow snow with the 60" blade that can be front or mid mounted and while you don't find them everywhere, there are enough out there where you can find them in the $300 range. Ditto for a 59" belly mower. Woods and IH made them and they are good units and with the 18-20 horses available, they can push through most stuff without too much trouble. As I said, unless your terrain is really hilly, the stock Super A is about as good as it gets. As far as I understand, they never made a loboy version of the Super A, but you may be able to lower one. I think the downside to that plan is now the stock implements won't work. Looking at more modern machines, the 404, B250, B414, 424..series has a lot to offer and with the 3 point hitch they can do anything the others can do but better. The Cub 184 Loboy was the final Cub and I have one. It has a resonable improvement in performance over the regular Cub but I have found it to lack the versatility of regular Cubs because of lack of implements.
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