Farmall A front axle u-bolt price Wow?

Running tractors these days is an expensive business. I've watched guys buy an older tractors, and everytime something breaks it's cobbleup, then it's one cobbleup after another, finally after about 10 years of cobbleup,they give up and have nothing but a pile of scrap metal. Then they go out and buy another tractor, costing them twice as much as if they had kept the first one in good shape. Keep your Super A in good shape, it will out last you, even if your only 20.

I have 3 of these little tractors, none of them show tractors, but they are in excellent mechanical condition. None of the 3 men who bought them new are alive today. I expect my grandson will use them and he's only 7 weeks old.

I'm am confident enough next week I'm going out for hire doing some custom work, edged out a guy with a relatively new 25 hp Deere, not because I'm doing it for less money, the customer is confident I have the ability and equipment to do the best job.

Well I tried a half dozen other springs that cost $30., none of them worked. So, I had to eat crow and go back and buy the $28. spring from my good CaseIH friend. He said, " That original spring on your Super A lasted 40 years, perhaps this one will as well." Think about this one, my 3 tractors have 6 of those springs One is 10 years old, one is 53 years old, two are 48 years old and two are 43 years old, quite good service when you think about it.

It's interesting that the U bolt has to be hardened -- it must be some sort of a wear issue. I would have thought that the increased brittleness of a hardened bolt would be a negative in an axle application.

Mark W. in MI