The International Cessna 170 Association

This is my grandmother's father's 1956 Farmall Cub. I serviced it real good this spring, bought a few parts, and put it to work on my grass strip. I blow the grass off of the deck after each use (I just wanted a working machine photo). Lord knows my grandfather would chew me out if I didnt, and he's been gone 10 years now. I'm thinking a fresh coat of Farmall Red is due this winter.

Why don't they make stuff like they used to?

Don't paint it! Original equipment always looks better.

Heflin wrote:
Why don't they make stuff like they used to?

I know what you mean Rob. I have a '51 Farmall C. She runs like a top, is a dream to work on, and parts are readily available. A nicely-engineered, well-built machine.

I agree with Richard. I wouldn't touch that original paint. It looks to be in pretty good condition.

We used to run a bunch of M's and Super M's on our fish farm. Anybody could work on them and they lasted forever. No computerized mess.

I think that Cub has been repainted, just not with the right color red.

You must have to gang the Cub together with the Deere to pull that planter.

How long is that nice runway Helflin? No air conditioned cab, power steering, hydraulics, traction/slippage meter, stereo radio, etc. on some of those types.

Rob, my C has the original paint and it's dark like yours (though not in as good as shape). Obviously I can't tell from your pics whether your paint is original. But the original paint does darken over time.

BTW, I forgot to compliment you on your nice bird in the background.

170C, it's 1900',

I just planted the Bermuda the last week of March. An ag pilot buddy made two passes over it with urea fertilizer in May, then we got 2 weeks of rain. I've never seen Bermuda grow so quickly! I've mowed it twice already and there's hardly a place you can look down and see dirt now.

I started on it last fall when they got the soybeans cut. I disked a 50' wide strip, pulled all of the loose dirt to the middle with my blade, smoothed it out with a box scraper, ran a landplane over it to feather it out to about 30', broadcast wheat, ran over that with a roller harrow, pulled ditches down the edge, then let it sit all winter. This spring I broadcast Bermuda, mowed the wheat down, and after 2 months the Bermuda was so thick it was choking the mower down.

Mr. Gene, I guess it must be original paint, then. It's been sitting under a shed for years and only run occasionally. I sold my Super M, an old Allis-Chalmers AC66 pull-behind combine, and a grain drill to get my down payment money for the plane last fall. I had suppressed the flying bug for about 12 years and it finally stung me good!

I understand Heflin. I have the Allis Chalmbers WD bought new by my maternal grandfather, the Ford 2N purchased new by my paternal grandfather, the Farmall Super MTA purchased new by my father and the Massey Ferguson 255 that I purchased new. They are much like airplanes if you take good care of them they will last a long time. Bill K