Re: Help! Fell in love with a Super A

Posted by Jay on May 11, 2004 at 06:17:52 from (66.231.127.140):

In Reply to: Help! Fell in love with a Super A posted by Peter Llanso on May 10, 2004 at 18:50:13:

I won't comment on your questions, the advice you received is good. But I can understand your love for the Super A.

I've lived in a farming community all my life, but have never farmed myself. I help people out once in a while and drive their tractors, and have always had access to any size tractor that I wanted to use. I have a couple implements that I bought to use with my brothers tractors, including a 9 foot snowblower and a 9 foot box scraper. Despite the availability to me, I always wanted a small loader tractor of my own to do odds and ends.

My brother bought his first antique tractor about 5 years ago, a 1938 Allis B with a Woods belly mower. Wonderful little tractor, turns sharp, mows nice, and runs beautifully. I was however disappointed with the power and in particular, the lack of adjustment in the carb.

I came across a crappy M with a Du-al loader. I had looked at it several times and said junk. It had an old truck seat on it, the grill was dented, the front end didn't work quite right (was bent), and the owner had always put USED oil in it from his other tractors (that's what he did with equipment he didn't like, but took excellent care of the ones he did). I had my thoughts on something a little better, 3 pt would be great. Live hydraulics was a must.

One day, I took a friend of mine (farmer) with me, and we looked at it. The guy wanted $600 dollars for it, he said it had sticky/leaky/burnt valves. Brian looked at me and said, if you don't buy it, I'm going to. Fine, I did. My brother, who farms the land of the guy that sold me the tractor said, don't be cheap - give him $800. I compromised, and give the guy $700.

After changing oil with NEW oil, the old girl suddenly had oil pressure (it did before, but on the low side) and it stopped missing and hissing. A new correct seat. Tear off and fix (for now) the front end, put a live pump on. New fluids around. Rewired. Pretty soon, I started to like that old girl. I have twice as much into it as I paid. But now she runs and works like it should.

That's when I became a Farmall man. Forget those popping Deeres and the gutless Allis'.

My next quest was for a Super A. I've seen them and driven them since, and love those little things. I wanted to mount a belly mower on it. They are hard to find around here, there are a few A's, but a Super is rare.

That led me to my C. I have a friend that was selling a beauty of one for his dad. Already had a nice Woods belly mower on it. We finally agreed on a price ($1700). I had yet to hear it run yet, but he said it ran nice. It was about +20F the day I went to pick it up. I don't think the engine turned over a full revolution and she was purring like it had been running all day. I haven't had time to work on it much yet, but it doesn't really need anything outside of new fluids. I'll wait until I can work her a bit before I change them. But I'm very happy with it.

My quest remains for a Super A. I've located an A that I haven't had time to look at yet. The problem is, I've run myself out of garage space, and I don't have anything for the A to do. I think I may still get it, but to just play with, and hopefully restore. As for garage space, I have plans in the back of my mind for that. I will think about it this summer with friends over a few barley pops.

So the only reply I have for you is this - If you love it, you think you can fix it, then get it. I think you may always regret it if you don't.

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