Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: super A year

Posted by Hugh MacKay on June 26, 2003 at 19:13:24 from (64.228.11.9):

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: super A year posted by CNKS on June 26, 2003 at 18:15:38:

When I think about this a bit, that 51 H probably had the H engine. Today I have Super A with C-113 and 130 as well as 140 both with C-123. The Super A will give these tractors a hard run on work I do with them.

On the item of an H capability, when I was a young lad we used to have tractor pulls in my hometown and not the type of pull you see today. We pulled a flat bottom stone boat, which was nothing more than a piece of 1/2" steel 4' wide and 10' long turned up a bit on both ends so you could pull it both ways. We pulled with a 6' chain connecting tractor to stone boat or drag. We used 100 and 200 lb. boxes of sand for adding weight. Every tractor pulled in the same class. The winner being the tractor that could start away and move 4' with the highest percentage of own weight including operator. Three tractors were the hard ones to beat, Farmalls A and H or Supers and Cockshutt 30. If you separate the Farmalls, it is a toss up for first between A and H, M will place 3rd and C will come in 4th. On the hard track the C or Super C just have too much rubber on the ground for that little engine.

I remember one time, my dad's brother Wallace said that this pull was skill and not tractor, and to a large degree he was right. He said that since he was smart enough to farm a 100 acres with a Super A, He knew how to get the most out of a tractor. His tractor and farm were miles away. It was agreed by every one that my dad and Wallace would both pull dad's H. Wallace placed 1st, dad 2nd and the next week dad had to put a clutch in the H

We had guys roll in there with Ms, Cockshutt 40, Oliver 88, etc. loaded with enough weight to sink a ship, only to leave red faced. The A and H or Supers and Cockshutt 30 would always come very close to 3 times their own weight, and ocasionally over. You start adding big weight to the big tractors and they have to pull a lot. Of course this was managements thinking, get these tractors as they were working on the farm. If the big guys stayed home fine, that much less weight for men to handle. Lifting devices in those days were two hands.

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