I have a 1963 140 Daddy bought used in 1976 and he and I both raised numerous tobacco crops with it as well as gardens. We turned land, cut and tilled land, listed up land and put in fertilizer with it, bush hogged with it, subsoiled with it and have skidded logs with it as well as cultivated with it. I still use it to garden with, scrape snow and whatever else comes along. For my money, the 140 is the world's greatest small farm tractor. Thanks for making this video Chris!
I had that problem with 1 of my corn plowing videos lol. “That’s not plowing” lol i stumbled upon your channel a few days ago. Love your videos. Straight to the point and tell the truth like it is. Reminds me of a lot of myself. I have a 52 super A and a 59 140 and wouldn’t take anything for neither of them lol. I was young and dumb some year back when I redid the super A and didn’t replace the the front engine seal and and piston rings and now I have a nice looking tractor the smokes and leaks oil but I’ll get to it 1 day. I do all my mechanic work also on these tractors. I have an old 2444 that’s the ran long enough to egg shape the front spindles. Hour meter quit working at 8800hrs but it’s well do for a rebuild. I have to take my final drives off the 140 soon and replace all the seals and gaskets. I think all of them are leaking lol
@@HomesteadingtheHardWay I’m really hoping i can get by with just new seals and gaskets and brake bands and maybe a few bearing or so. Where do you suggest i get the farmall parts from? I got a small local man I get ALOT of my IH parts from but it’s a lot of online sources also
I grew up on a Red Belly Ford, and that's all we had in the garden or for cultivating, but you're right, nothing beats that type of tractor for cultivating
Most farms here had a 35 or 40 horse tractor like a 35 Ferguson or a 400 Farmall to break ground with and utility work and a one row Farmall to cultivate and bed with .
The 1st tractor I bought on my own was a M Farmall, traded it for a MD, priced it one day when I should have kept my mouth shut, and my MD was gone, bought a 584 International, still have it, just bought a toy John Deere 2025 R last year, use it twice as much as the big tractor. Have really enjoyed your videos since I found you, I'm near Winston Salem
@@markellis6727 I've done that a few times, throwed out the I don't want to sell it price and they said ok I'll take it . If you ever come down this way stop by
My grampa had a super A Farmall . He had a cycle mower on it for cutting hay here in Wisconsin. He also pulled wagons and cultivated corn with it, I spent some time on an old M Farmall and JohnDeere A and B growing up. I like the way that 140 is set up.
My family are row crop farmers on large scale, (I ended up a carpenter) but when I was a kid my Grandpa planted acres of potatoes. He had a Farmall offset with a middle buster plow that he’d roll the taters up with. All us grandkids took buckets and bushel baskets and crawled around picking up all the taters and pouring them in the barn floor or under a shade tree. Day after day until all the taters were dug. Fed all 9 of his living children and 21 grandchildren with those taters and what wasn’t sent home to eat were sold. This took me right back to those days of being a snot nosed kid fighting through tater bugs and ground rattlers to gather up all those red potatoes! Thanks for sharing
@@RaisedOutdoors nothing wrong with that I've seen people grow them in barrels and make pretty good . We have a fair market for little new potatoes so I'm planting some to sell
I read somewhere where Allis Chalmers sued Farmall when they first came out with the model A because they supposedly copied the torque tube type design Allis had on their model B so in order to get around the lawsuit Farmall moved the engine over to the side. As they say, the rest is history. What a stroke of luck or genius ever how you want to call it. Love the tractors. Just picked up a Model A with cultivators can't wait to try it out. Love your videos keep them coming.
I've never heard that but it could be true they sued each other pretty regular but a B and C Farmall use the same design centered up but you know the patent may have expired
Hello from Ohio! I like to garden enough to put some up for winter. Plenty of Cubs and As around here but I've only seen one 140 at a nursery. You're right, I've tried tillers, Sears garden tractors, gravely, hoeing my head off the whole time. It all worked but looked like a jungle . Yeah the fords and Fergusons are too low and uncontrollable for garden type cultivating cause you can be covering up your corn if you get out there when you need to. I finally found some H or M farmall shifting gang cultivators. Put on a H they do very well. So I'm two row now. I just looked at a john blue tractor the other day. That was cool. It had Buddingh finger weeders on it. They work really well he said. It's like a large allis chalmers G. Still too low for corn. All the truck farmers down in valley use the round-up ready fake corn. I say " why don't you just spray that chemical right in your mouth? I ain't eating it!" Ok, I'm done ranting.
Lol don't worry about the rant , I've seen some of those new Gs they look like a good idea for produce but nobody around here has bought one yet . Up your way farmers probably went to bigger tractors before the 140s came out. A lot of farms here had a one row farmall and a 40 horse Ferguson into the late 80s until most of the little guys went under and big farms got to be normal . Thanks for watching
I'm going to try to do one covering the basics but there's so many different was depending on what your doing . If you have a specific question let me know
Homesteading the Hard Way thank you. I need a review on setting up cultivators, plows etc. everything needed from start to finish on setting up a 140 for gardening. Love your videos. Thx.
I do not know what area you are in. My dad bought a model a farmall used in1968. It has planter, 16inches breaking plow cultivators. I have used it for years. I would like to find a 140 with all the tools. Great video.
@@HomesteadingtheHardWay Just looked at a late 1960's 140 this evening , had cultivator plows and fertilizer applicator attachment . Drove it , tractor checks out and looks good . Feller is asking $ 2,500.00 . Any thoughts Chris ?
@@cranerigging3604 sounds like a good price , that fertilizer distributor will bring 400.00 by it's self if it's all there . Does it have the fast hitch ?
@@HomesteadingtheHardWay Sadly no fast hitch but I could probably fabricate something . I'm looking for an " overgrown " garden tractor for smaller tasks around the farm and something for the boy to learn on . It's ironic as I don't need the cultivators or fertilizer distributor as we are all " no-till " on the garden . Thank you Chris for your input and thoughts !
@@cranerigging3604 you can buy or make a 3 point pretty easy and the equipment is cheaper and easier to get . Remember these offset tractors flip easy if you turn right way to fast
That's a neat tractor. I can't see new tractors lasting that long. My truck is only 14 years old ind it looks older then that tractor lol hope all is well.
They don't build anything to last anymore this tractor is a 63 or 64 and is mostly original the Ferguson I use is a 53 and was repainted in the 70s to look newer
Homesteading the Hard Way I do have one question about something I saw on UA-cam. The guy was restoring an old tractor, he washed the tractor and then sprayed the whole tractor with diesel and oil. Said it would prevent further rust damage. Is that fake news? 😂
@@kc5198 I wouldn't do it , I hope nobody ever has to paint it . After they get surface rust over every thing it kinda takes care of itself . On a restorative We sand blast and paint or clear coat what's there depending on what the customer wants . We spray some equipment with diesel like the drops on a grain drill or manure spreaders to keep it freed up
The Allis G is a great contender. You are closer to the crop on the G. The G isn't as powerful as the Farmall side tractors tho. Never had the 130 , have an A , Super A , and a 140. There is a world of difference in the A series , and the number series. That 113 engine on the A series is so weak compared to the 123 engine on the number series. The 140 has a much better geared transmission then the A series as well. It uses the same engine , and transmission as the Super C. It's an overlooked gem as well. I truly miss my old Super C. It would get into tight places, but just big enough for decent work.
Most people just use the tool bar as a step , Daddy would step on it and use the hydraulics to lift his self up . I repaired them for a living for thirty years but we've almost closed the shop down because of health reasons
To be able to cultivate two to four narrow rows . Like onions , carrots , lettuce etc . Supposed to use small plows or tines , A few produce farms around here still run a couple. They won't handle a two row set up like a C wheels won't go out and not enough engine .
They are too big to be a " garden tractor " what makes the off set Farmalls so good is the ability to precision cultivate . I use a 30 and 35 Ferguson to tend mine with 3 point cultivators but I can't do as good of a job . It would have to be a mighty big garden for a 65 Ferguson and then you'd have to bed on 38s
hello from Prince Edward Island ,, Canada .. i love the farmall offset tractors .. we have a farmall A and 100 all so have 3 Massey tractors 135, 231 and a 240 and have a Allis B witch im going to sell and buy a super A .. we dont have any implements for our farmall though as they are reall hard to find in my area .. check out my channel
Quickest easiest way is to get one from salvage and stick on it tbh . You can fix that one but they're temperamental especially if you've never done one . There's some pretty good videos on fixing them that might help
I have a 1963 140 Daddy bought used in 1976 and he and I both raised numerous tobacco crops with it as well as gardens. We turned land, cut and tilled land, listed up land and put in fertilizer with it, bush hogged with it, subsoiled with it and have skidded logs with it as well as cultivated with it. I still use it to garden with, scrape snow and whatever else comes along. For my money, the 140 is the world's greatest small farm tractor. Thanks for making this video Chris!
They are without a doubt The most versatile . They were the backbone of a tobacco farm
I had that problem with 1 of my corn plowing videos lol. “That’s not plowing” lol i stumbled upon your channel a few days ago. Love your videos. Straight to the point and tell the truth like it is. Reminds me of a lot of myself. I have a 52 super A and a 59 140 and wouldn’t take anything for neither of them lol. I was young and dumb some year back when I redid the super A and didn’t replace the the front engine seal and and piston rings and now I have a nice looking tractor the smokes and leaks oil but I’ll get to it 1 day. I do all my mechanic work also on these tractors. I have an old 2444 that’s the ran long enough to egg shape the front spindles. Hour meter quit working at 8800hrs but it’s well do for a rebuild. I have to take my final drives off the 140 soon and replace all the seals and gaskets. I think all of them are leaking lol
Those final drives can suck up some parts money fast , seems like it's never just seals . For what a one row farmall
@@HomesteadingtheHardWay I’m really hoping i can get by with just new seals and gaskets and brake bands and maybe a few bearing or so. Where do you suggest i get the farmall parts from? I got a small local man I get ALOT of my IH parts from but it’s a lot of online sources also
I grew up on a Red Belly Ford, and that's all we had in the garden or for cultivating, but you're right, nothing beats that type of tractor for cultivating
Most farms here had a 35 or 40 horse tractor like a 35 Ferguson or a 400 Farmall to break ground with and utility work and a one row Farmall to cultivate and bed with .
The 1st tractor I bought on my own was a M Farmall, traded it for a MD, priced it one day when I should have kept my mouth shut, and my MD was gone, bought a 584 International, still have it, just bought a toy John Deere 2025 R last year, use it twice as much as the big tractor. Have really enjoyed your videos since I found you, I'm near Winston Salem
@@markellis6727 I've done that a few times, throwed out the I don't want to sell it price and they said ok I'll take it . If you ever come down this way stop by
@@HomesteadingtheHardWay, would love to, don't even know where you're from, except Eastern NC
@@markellis6727 send me an email homesteadingthehardway@gmail.com
Thanks for the terminology breakdown Chris! Your attention to detail is commendable. 😀
Sometimes I forget there is a language barrier lol
Yes sir that is a great little tractor....thanks for sharing
Nothing like one !
I love a man who loves his tractor. Take good care of it and it takes good care of you.
We tend to keep things forever ,just keep fixing them
My grampa had a super A Farmall . He had a cycle mower on it for cutting hay here in Wisconsin. He also pulled wagons and cultivated corn with it, I spent some time on an old M Farmall and JohnDeere A and B growing up. I like the way that 140 is set up.
My family are row crop farmers on large scale, (I ended up a carpenter) but when I was a kid my Grandpa planted acres of potatoes. He had a Farmall offset with a middle buster plow that he’d roll the taters up with.
All us grandkids took buckets and bushel baskets and crawled around picking up all the taters and pouring them in the barn floor or under a shade tree. Day after day until all the taters were dug. Fed all 9 of his living children and 21 grandchildren with those taters and what wasn’t sent home to eat were sold.
This took me right back to those days of being a snot nosed kid fighting through tater bugs and ground rattlers to gather up all those red potatoes! Thanks for sharing
We're getting potato ground ready this week only about a quarter acre though
@@HomesteadingtheHardWay that’s one thing I wish I had more room for. Not much ground here but we do grow a few but in unconventional ways
@@RaisedOutdoors nothing wrong with that I've seen people grow them in barrels and make pretty good . We have a fair market for little new potatoes so I'm planting some to sell
Nice update with the Farmall.
Rob
Many thanks
Great video. That was the era KISS. That is a rare thing nowadays!
I am talking about keeping the design simple.
@@beavercreekdesign no doubt ! When one tractor to a farm was the rule and it had to do everything
Wow 140that my favorite tracker that's the first tracker I ever had its good to see one a gin
First tractor I ever ran
I read somewhere where Allis Chalmers sued Farmall when they first came out with the model A because they supposedly copied the torque tube type design Allis had on their model B so in order to get around the lawsuit Farmall moved the engine over to the side. As they say, the rest is history. What a stroke of luck or genius ever how you want to call it. Love the tractors. Just picked up a Model A with cultivators can't wait to try it out. Love your videos keep them coming.
I've never heard that but it could be true they sued each other pretty regular but a B and C Farmall use the same design centered up but you know the patent may have expired
Hello from Ohio! I like to garden enough to put some up for winter. Plenty of Cubs and As around here but I've only seen one 140 at a nursery. You're right, I've tried tillers, Sears garden tractors, gravely, hoeing my head off the whole time. It all worked but looked like a jungle . Yeah the fords and Fergusons are too low and uncontrollable for garden type cultivating cause you can be covering up your corn if you get out there when you need to. I finally found some H or M farmall shifting gang cultivators. Put on a H they do very well. So I'm two row now. I just looked at a john blue tractor the other day. That was cool. It had Buddingh finger weeders on it. They work really well he said. It's like a large allis chalmers G. Still too low for corn. All the truck farmers down in valley use the round-up ready fake corn. I say " why don't you just spray that chemical right in your mouth? I ain't eating it!" Ok, I'm done ranting.
Lol don't worry about the rant , I've seen some of those new Gs they look like a good idea for produce but nobody around here has bought one yet . Up your way farmers probably went to bigger tractors before the 140s came out. A lot of farms here had a one row farmall and a 40 horse Ferguson into the late 80s until most of the little guys went under and big farms got to be normal . Thanks for watching
Drove one for years with a small sickle mower cutting roadsides.
There's a few of those old state tractors still around , get one at the shop occasionally.
Beautiful machine! Did a very nice job!
I could talk for hours and not do justice by a one row Farmall ! They were the back bone of farming here .
@@HomesteadingtheHardWay no doubt
Great information man!
Who the Crap would dislike a video on a 140
@@HomesteadingtheHardWay great question
nice tractor, thanks for talking about it with us
Going to try to do more videos on some of these old tractors ,let people know the good and bad
P.S. we plow corn up here too. That's what the old timers called it.
Please do a video of setting up the 140 from start to finish set up for gardening. Thx.
I'm going to try to do one covering the basics but there's so many different was depending on what your doing . If you have a specific question let me know
Homesteading the Hard Way thank you. I need a review on setting up cultivators, plows etc. everything needed from start to finish on setting up a 140 for gardening. Love your videos. Thx.
@@SirBelvedere333 I'll try to do one first chance I get
Homesteading the Hard Way oh thank you so much.
Got to love the 140 mines 12v positive ground
No doubt , it's one of the most versatile tractors ever built .
Nice tractor, it gets the job done.
55 years old and still working !
I do not know what area you are in. My dad bought a model a farmall used in1968. It has planter, 16inches breaking plow cultivators. I have used it for years. I would like to find a 140 with all the tools. Great video.
There's a few around, finding one with all the equipment might be a little tough
Well done sir
Thanks for the Video Chris ! I would like a 140 with the woods belly mower .
That would be a good way to keep the grass mowed ! The state mowed side the road with them for years . Belly mower and a sickle bar off the back
@@HomesteadingtheHardWay Just looked at a late 1960's 140 this evening , had cultivator plows and fertilizer applicator attachment . Drove it , tractor checks out and looks good . Feller is asking $ 2,500.00 . Any thoughts Chris ?
@@cranerigging3604 sounds like a good price , that fertilizer distributor will bring 400.00 by it's self if it's all there . Does it have the fast hitch ?
@@HomesteadingtheHardWay Sadly no fast hitch but I could probably fabricate something . I'm looking for an " overgrown " garden tractor for smaller tasks around the farm and something for the boy to learn on .
It's ironic as I don't need the cultivators or fertilizer distributor as we are all " no-till " on the garden . Thank you Chris for your input and thoughts !
@@cranerigging3604 you can buy or make a 3 point pretty easy and the equipment is cheaper and easier to get . Remember these offset tractors flip easy if you turn right way to fast
That's a neat tractor. I can't see new tractors lasting that long. My truck is only 14 years old ind it looks older then that tractor lol hope all is well.
They don't build anything to last anymore this tractor is a 63 or 64 and is mostly original the Ferguson I use is a 53 and was repainted in the 70s to look newer
Looking to buy a 140, but I want one for a cub price😂. Enjoying your knowledge keep up the good work !
Many thanks ! They're getting cheaper around here , that super A I'm piddling on was 500.00 not running but it doesn't need much really
Homesteading the Hard Way Oh yeah for sure, I’m gonna get my grandads 51 super a going again soon. It’s been sitting for a long time, tires are shot.
@@kc5198 let me know if you need any help when you get started on it !
Homesteading the Hard Way I do have one question about something I saw on UA-cam. The guy was restoring an old tractor, he washed the tractor and then sprayed the whole tractor with diesel and oil. Said it would prevent further rust damage. Is that fake news? 😂
@@kc5198 I wouldn't do it , I hope nobody ever has to paint it . After they get surface rust over every thing it kinda takes care of itself . On a restorative We sand blast and paint or clear coat what's there depending on what the customer wants . We spray some equipment with diesel like the drops on a grain drill or manure spreaders to keep it freed up
The Allis G is a great contender. You are closer to the crop on the G. The G isn't as powerful as the Farmall side tractors tho. Never had the 130 , have an A , Super A , and a 140. There is a world of difference in the A series , and the number series. That 113 engine on the A series is so weak compared to the 123 engine on the number series. The 140 has a much better geared transmission then the A series as well. It uses the same engine , and transmission as the Super C. It's an overlooked gem as well. I truly miss my old Super C. It would get into tight places, but just big enough for decent work.
Got one just like it just finished building hydraulic lift
Great tractor. I just got a 100. Do you know where I can get a step to climb on?
Do you work on them?
Most people just use the tool bar as a step , Daddy would step on it and use the hydraulics to lift his self up . I repaired them for a living for thirty years but we've almost closed the shop down because of health reasons
An establishment of a strong vernacular.
Years ago my grandpa acquired a BN. He used it to raise sweet corn. What was the intended application of Bn?
To be able to cultivate two to four narrow rows . Like onions , carrots , lettuce etc . Supposed to use small plows or tines , A few produce farms around here still run a couple. They won't handle a two row set up like a C wheels won't go out and not enough engine .
Nar’thn how’s it going it’s all go here not getting much time to watch any UA-cam... I’m trying to get the ones I watch.. Busy busy here...
I understand George we're wide open here too
Now that’s a tractor rite there
No doubt !I've been a hundred thousand miles on one , we used to plow every row of tobacco twice at the time three times a week
Are you a North Carolina boy?
Yes sir Lenoir co.
My options in my area seem to be:
Massie Ferguson 65
Allis Chalmers WD
Farmall H
What are your thoughts on these?
They are too big to be a " garden tractor " what makes the off set Farmalls so good is the ability to precision cultivate . I use a 30 and 35 Ferguson to tend mine with 3 point cultivators but I can't do as good of a job . It would have to be a mighty big garden for a 65 Ferguson and then you'd have to bed on 38s
hello from Prince Edward Island ,, Canada .. i love the farmall offset tractors .. we have a farmall A and 100 all so have 3 Massey tractors 135, 231 and a 240 and have a Allis B witch im going to sell and buy a super A .. we dont have any implements for our farmall though as they are reall hard to find in my area .. check out my channel
My grandpa just told me I’m welcome to his. Only major thing is the lift control I need to re build it anyone have any tips
Quickest easiest way is to get one from salvage and stick on it tbh . You can fix that one but they're temperamental especially if you've never done one . There's some pretty good videos on fixing them that might help