From an Old Tractor website
 

http://www.yesterdaystractors.com/cg...oard&th=106697

While I found this amusing, it is pathetic how old legends hang on, and how many people still believe them.
Perhaps it's not surprising these guys are primarily Tractor guys who own guns, as opposed to me and many of my friends who are gun guys who also use tractors.

I wonder what camp the guy sleeps in who was expounding the dangers of the Farmall Cub, at a recent event. He said more people have died using the cub because "All you have to do is drive over a rock with your right wheel, and they flip". :banghead:

Sporting Life July 6, 1895
2nd column 1/2 way down
http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrar.../SL2515023.pdf

1902 H.H. Kiffe catalog
Winchester 1893 Repeating Shotgun illustrated - "The barrel of this gun has been proved with 9 1/2 drams of powder, and 2 1/2 ounces of shot."

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The Banc D'Epreuves Des Armes a Feu De Liege (Proof House for Firearms of Liege) First Obligatory Proof Load for 12g breech plugged "rough forged tubes" intended for “Double-Barreled Breech-Loading Sporting Guns” was 21 grams = 324 grains = 11.8 Drams powder and 32 grams = 1.12 oz. shot.

1917 E.C. Simmons catalog - "Bored For Nitro Powder"

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Pete Dickey, “The Winchester Model 97” Feb. 1985 American Rifleman
Damascus barrels were regularly offered up until 1914 [but] cannot be considered “Smokeless Powder” guns.

The "rolled blued steel" was Winchester Standard Ordnance cold rolled Bessemer with a tensile strength about 60,000

I'd be willing to bet that Ken B. form CT. (4th post) is one of you guys from CT. trying to pirate any damascus guns in to your sweaty hands.:nono:


http://www.yesterdaystractors.com/cg...oard&th=106697

OK, so that phenomenon COULD HAPPEN (quoting Judy Tenuda) in North America. But what about driving over a rock in South America, say Argentina - would you be OK on the right wheel down there, but at great risk if you ran over one with the left wheel, given the Coriolis effect? Just asking.....

My cub has never flipped! Bobby

My dad let me use our original Farmall cub, when I was about9 or 10. Then gave it to me when he got a new one. If it could have been flipped, I'd a done it. That was my ATV before ATV was cool. Pulled logs, sold firewood and the guy I sold it to gave it his son. I still see it regularly, and it doesn't look upended to me.

My Farmall 100 (improved Cub) no flips, but my tricycle John Deere Styled B, been scared a few times.

must have been a very big rock they ran over with that cub farmall...charlie

My Great Grandfather bought a 1929 Farmall and used it at our farm in Savannah. When my Great Uncle bought a plantation on the Edisto River, Great Grandfather gave him the tractor.

Uncle Hugh used the heck out of that tractor, using it to cut the saw grass in his rice field with an old John Deere sickle bar mower. When it got stuck (which was often), Deemus, his farm hand, would stick a 2x4 in the back tire spokes and back up. Very dangerous - either the tractor came out of the mud or it would flip over and kill whoever was driving it. Somehow it never flipped over.

Uncle Hugh finally decided to get rid of the tractor and gave it to my Dad and we still have it today. It gets light use, primarily cranking it up and driving it around

I have had a couple just like that. Is yours set up to run off gas and kerosene both. Almost flipped my H's a couple of times.Tricycle's are easy to flip. Never came close to turning my cub over.