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Super A, Tough to beat em

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scott#2

05-11-2008 13:34:16

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I'd rather use this little one than the big Fords I have. After 60 years, still going strong. Ran her all day, what a tiny treasure.

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ihc49

05-11-2008 21:44:10

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Re: Super A, Tough to beat em in reply to scott#2, 05-11-2008 13:34:16

horses will out work that tractor side by side.

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Hugh Mackay

05-12-2008 03:24:46

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Re: Super A, Tough to beat em in reply to ihc49, 05-11-2008 21:44:10

IHC49: I once entered a horse pull with my lowly Super A. Now horsemen consider they are doing well if they pull 2-3-2.5 times the weight of the team. Well my friend, I got to 3.1 times the weight of the Super A before they stumped me.

Like ih560 said, how many 55 year old horses are still out there doing their thing. If your not using the SA you don't need to feed it, don't have to clean out the manure.

My dad once said, he only had one tractor that wouldn't out perform the horses, that being a Fordson on steel. The horses would have worked less if they had just done work done by Fordson, rather than tow starting the Fordson. He traded the Fordson for a W4 in 1942, worked the farm with one team and the W4. 8 years later in 1950 he bought a Cub and the horses went down the road. Technically the cub replaced the horses. In 1958 he traded the Cub for a 130 and I have a photo somewhere of that 130 coming out of bush with two cords of firewood on bobsleds.

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Rootsy

05-12-2008 04:29:38

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Re: Super A, Tough to beat em in reply to Hugh Mackay, 05-12-2008 03:24:46

My Super A has a couple of cord on the trailer behind it right now waiting to be split and stacked...

I had the hay wagon so loaded down with wood a couple of weeks ago that it was all the little SA wanted climbing the hill to get home...

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ih560

05-11-2008 23:17:57

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Re: Super A, Tough to beat em in reply to ihc49, 05-11-2008 21:44:10

I wanna see a set of horses born in the late 40's -early 50's do any where near the work that little Super A is capable of. And lets think about how many teams of horses you would of had to fed and bought over the years to have done all the work that tractor has done or is capable of doing. I don't think your comparison is equal or clear.
If we are going to make crazy comparisons, lets go ahead and say that a brand new Magnum 335 will out work 20 teams of horses.

I happen to like the little tractors and if you park that little tractor in the barn for a few months before you have time to get back to it, it is still sitting there. Try not feeding your horses for a month or two and see where that gets you. And that little tractor will plow day and night, same tractor no matter who is driving it. I wonder how long a team of horses will do that before they die.
Just a few points

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farmerweber in PA

05-11-2008 19:06:06

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Re: Super A, Tough to beat em in reply to scott#2, 05-11-2008 13:34:16

Beautiful picture.I was doing the same thing about a week ago.Was telling my wife that if it came down to either the SA or our 350D,the SA would stay.It is a great little machine that is able to do just about anything we need a tractor for.

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Rnie

05-11-2008 15:23:25

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Re: Super A, Tough to beat em in reply to scott#2, 05-11-2008 13:34:16

Looks like some tight rooted sod you"re workin.
Gonna have to work it over pretty good with a disk.

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Coffee Helps

05-11-2008 14:50:47

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Re: Super A, Tough to beat em in reply to scott#2, 05-11-2008 13:34:16

Nice picture. Reminds me of walking in a plow furrow behind a Cub about 55 years ago.

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