Farmall A Cultivator Manual

Sabre · Feb 22, 2015

Hi all. I haven't been here in a long time. I'm hoping I can pick some brains.
I've got my grandpa's '41 Farmall A. It still needs a lot of work.
I think I've bought a set of cultivators for it. We agreed on a price of $400.00. I hope that's a good buy. Everything's there. They were mounted, and working. But, the seller took them off, and I really have no idea how to mount them, or adjust them. Did Farmall publish a manual for these?
Thanks.

kub6040 · Feb 22, 2015

There were manuals, I think your cultivator would be some variation of a 144 , I don't have a manual but have in the past , check here or fle-bay.

Dieselrider · Feb 22, 2015

You can see if this will work for you. You can convert to pdf and download it for your own use. This is actually for a cub but, it may be close enough that you can see how yours works.
144 Cultivator

Dennis K (WA) · Feb 22, 2015

Check with binderbooks dot com, they probably have what you need and are very good reprints.
Dennis

Roster · Feb 22, 2015

You wil find the cub cultivators are quite a bit different than your A cultivators,,,400 dollars is a bit pricey.

Jim Becker · Feb 22, 2015

The Cub cultivator is generally similar to the Super A cultivator. The manual for neither one will do you much good with an A cultivator. Super A cultivators can not be easily mounted on an A. I hope you have the right ones.

There were a couple different A cultivators as well (early and late). There were hand lift and pneumatic lift versions. The lift parts were vary different between early and late as well. The wrong manual will be marginally useful.

Can you post pictures so we can identify what you have?

gene bender · Feb 22, 2015

The cult could be either an A-134 as that was the early model and used only one lever mounted on top of the tranny. Later the A-136 and 138 models came out. Does yours have two levers with one being longer that the other. If it has two levers the same length it is for the exhaust model. Do you have tooling for the rear you can callme if you would like 319-430-3907

Sabre · Feb 23, 2015

Thanks. From the pics sent, it appears to have one long lever mounted on the far right of the platform. Right near the right fender. I cannot tell if there's a short lever anywhere. It does not have 2 long levers. I can tell you the tractor they were mounted on is a 1940. Mine is a 1941.
It has rear shovels. Not the wide sweeps, but the narrower ones.

Steve

Sabre · Feb 23, 2015

I do not have pics to upload right now. I'm going tomorrow evening to look at them.

Badger bob · Feb 23, 2015

i was in the same boat. just call gene he will git you going. Bob

Sabre · Feb 23, 2015

Thanks.

gene bender · Feb 23, 2015

Long lever on platform is for rear tooling. Yr of tractor doesent matter its just that the cults changed different models for different crops. You still need another lever system to raise and lower. Shovels will vary depending on crop.

Jim Becker · Feb 23, 2015

Here is a picture of the A-134 (thanks to somebody on tractorshed). Note the single big lever to the left of the seat.

The other link is to someone's youtube video. He does a pretty good job of explaining and demonstrating a 136/138 style with one long and one short lever as gene described.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ0-EbhH3gU

gene bender · Feb 23, 2015

The 144 isnt for an A the only thing common would be the shanks even the shank holders are different

gene bender · Feb 23, 2015

I have that lever and lift arms if someone needs them. It mounts on top of the tranny.

Sabre · Feb 23, 2015

The pics he sent were blurry. And only from the right side.
Looking thru the pic, I can see a toothed depth control bracket on what appears to be the left side of the tractor. It's obscured by the steering wheel pedestal and battery. But it does not have a long handle. So, I would assume it's short.
Everything appears to be there. He says it's a complete, and fully functioning set of cultivators. I guess my big concern is that they will mount onto my tractor. And it sounds like they will.
I did check with nnalert, and the do have the instruction manual.
I'm going to look at them tomorrow evening. Thanks to the help, I have an idea now what to look for.
I'm not going to mount them until I get my steering box rebuilt. The slop is terrible. I'll be posting on that soon, too.
Thank you guys so much for the help. Any and all info is greatly appreciated.

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