Thanks for the kind words guys!
Spencer: Thanks for the gama correction
Henro: I'll post some more pics, perhaps wednesday afternoon. I work tonight, but will be off work tomorrow early, and should get some camera time.
If it wouldn't have been so late last night, i would have pulled the tractor into the riding areena and turned on the areena lights and got some better pics.. But at that point I still had to clean the horse stalls, and the wife was tapping her foot, so I had to put the tractor up for the night.
Millsnhills: I havn't shown it -yet-.. but am tempted to take it to the North fl antique engine and tractor show this december. I joined a couple years ago, and they are a nice small group that meets twice a year around starke.
Right now, it is bein used to cut the grass on the right of wat between my property and the highway, and to take turns cutting the power co. easement between my pasture and the neighbors pasture... so deffinately light duty.
Bob: They are a great idea.. and a bit more stable than the sun-brellas. On this design, the two outer supports run thru the fabric, while the middle is 'free' underneath. Sopposedly according to paperwork, these can be made to be compatible with rops.. so you may be able to adjust enough clearance to do what you want with it. or even build a few angle supports and clamp them to your rops and make your own canvas cannopy, and save the 89 bucks.
Bird: I love those buggy tops. I tried one a few years ago when I got my first tractor, a yanmar 1700. Worked great, and kept the sun off of me. I also added one to my wifes horse drawn buggy, and now that I'm doing a little mowing with the cub, i added one to it, after mowing last weekend for a few hours and getting red.
My NH 1920 does the heavy pasture mowing... but I love these older tractors so much, I use them for the light duty pasture work.
Occasionally I us ethe NAA to boxblade the maneuer pile.. or pull a drag harrow.
The 8N is the fertalizer/seeder machine with a light 3pt broadcast spreader. The cub is the light duty mower. I especially like it as it is a hop on and go type of machine... don't have to hitch up a mower, etc. Many times I need just to knock the black tops of fthe grass in a swath from the barn to the turn out areena, as In the morning I walk one of the young horses in from the turn out to his stall... I usually do this right before leaving to work, and don't like the blacktops sticking to my legs or pants. Many times the grass just isn't high enough to justify getting the NH out, hitching the mower and mowing a few foot swath.. so the cub is great... just a 5 minute job. Same for a small 10cuft cart I have. Once a week, I load up the feed for the chickens, turkeys and pigs, and go fill the hopper feeders in there pens at the back of the pasture... sure beats wheel barrowing it 250-300# of feed down there..
The previous owners kept it garaged, so i also keep it under cover. Not completely garaged.. but closed on two sides, with a good roof, so it stays outta the rain and sun.. just some dust settles on it...
I'm lucky that this one was in soo good of condition.. took me much less time to spiffy up than either of the two ford projects did.
Thanks guys,
Soundguy
