A Farmall "A" tractor is not the tractor you want for mowing with for many reasons. Here are the top ones:
1) It is an offset tractor built for cultivating crops one row at a time. I have seen them upset on level ground when the left tire would fall into a plow furrow. You see a lot of them with the wheel weights on the right side and the right tire loaded. This was to stabilize the tractor more. Still not a good tractor for mowing on any kind of slope.
2) The PTO is not live. So it would not work the best on a rotary mower (bush hog). Would need a over running clutch to even try doing it.
3) The tractor is only rated at 16 PTO Horse power. So it would be working hard with even a five foot rotary cutter. Four footer would be more like it. Then you would need the tires out wider than the cutter.
4) These tractors did not have a three point hitch. Does it even have the hydraulic lift on it??? The early ones did not. The cultivators just where manual lift. Then the next step was a vacuum lift assist. So you may not even have any lift on it. If you do it may not lift a rotary mower. Even with a lift on it you will need an after market three point hitch for hooking to a rear mounted rotary cutter. Those after market hitches really just "kind-of" work. You can find belly mounted mowers for the Farmall "A" but they really where made more for mowing grass not rough stuff like small trees and brush.
Well there are four reason not to use the Farmall "A" to bush hog with.
Also the market for these little tractors has dropped like a rock. The areas that used to use them for tobacco has flooded the market with them CHEAP since the government bought out the tobacco bases. The contracts guys are not going to cultivate one row at a time. I have seen IH 140 (Newer "A") not bring $1500. This is in good shape. Just not a market for them.
So you kind of jumped the gun with buying the Farmall "A". Hope you did not pay much for it. $1000-1500 would be market even with good/new paint and all.
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