Calling Hugh MacKay

Thanks and hope everyone is doing OK. We're still doing hurricane work for the family homes and still trying to pay the bills.

There were steel wheels around that would fit Cubs, A, B or SA. I don't think IH made them, and I doubt if they were very popular. You put corks or spades on a wheel that small and your going to have one he!! of a rough ride. I had Canadian ring chains over the years for several 38" wheels and liked them, however on 24" tires they shake the he!! out of both tractor and operator.

Hugh, I grew up on a vegetable farm, many crops on 20 inch rows. Requires a 9" or less tire for cultivation which we had on our two B's. I have never seen a B on steel, but many Ford 2/8/9N's, not out of the realm of possibility that someone would equip a cub that way for cultivation, although there really is no reason to do that, since the 7-9 inch tires would work fine. We had narrow steel on our H for cultivation, swapped the wheels for 11-38's for tillage. So, steel did have it's place, and was not necessarily caused by the WWII rubber shortage. I do agree that a person has to be nuts to actually order steel unless he needed to cultivate as we did.

I remember hearing a story about one enterprising young man built and upside down buzz saw on 3 point of 8N. His idea was to cut 2/3 way through 18" ice every 2' both directions. One day he dropped the saw a bit too quickly, saw sent tractor on rubber across the ice and into the open water. That project required a bit of refinement.