140 has to go to work

A couple times a year this 140 has to come out of hibernation. Its one and only job is to do the first couple of cultivating jobs.




Friday morning before the rain I hit the fields

Okra is coming up




This part mulched, caged And fenced, Water and wait.

Nice tractor - and garden.

For a garden are small crops they can not be beat. They were once all they used to farm tobacco, peas, corn etc in the south. Most all the baccer farmers still have a 5/6 are more sitting under a shed just encase. They fetch big bucks around here.

With a little work you can get 35 HP out of them. There's a 140 high crop for sale local he does not have any of the cultivators that kills the value for me. I want it but don't want it to look at.

It all looks good Hobo. The 1 row
Farmalls are perfect for garden
work. They sure were the ticket in
they're time for raising a baccer
crop also. They did everything from
the transplanting, cultivating, sled
row maintenance, tobacco spraying,
and actually hauling the baccer out
of the field to the barns. No wonder
some of them you see have so much
wear about them. Grandaddy bought a
new early model 140 like yours,
Serial # 5765 that got traded. Wish
I could find it's whereabouts again.
We still have his 100 he bought new
in Oct of '57.

The first offset Farmall I bought was in 1978, and has the same paint scheme as yours. It worked
gardens and baccer crops through 2004, and still contributes to farm and gardening chores. A couple
of added Super As and a 274 seem like a bit of excess, but it is nice to not have to change
attachments as often as my shoulders try to get me to slow down. I can't keep up with the tractors
though!

I love an offset Farmall! Best garden
tractors! Your garden is looking good!

Those little 140's are the real deal & the garden looks great.

Best I remember its a 63 that came off a baccer farm. I was buying parts off of it from a deceased farmers crack head son. Then one day the call came he would sale it. All that was wrong with it was water in the fuel. I got it running it smoked bad, they had installed anit fouler's s on all the spark plugs. I got caught up one day and adjusted the valves they all were tight I removed the anti fouler's the smoke cleared up its never fouled a plug : )

He had a shed full of cultivates they all were worn slap out so I passed on them. The best fertilizer hopper I have they had not removed the fertilizer from the last use it was 1/4 full I had to chisel it out. Its in great condition and put up till I need it.

I brought a 1955 100 back in the early 90's I don't know the history other than it was worn slap out. Not much of it I have not worked on. 20 years ago something broke in the timing gears are the hydraulic pump drive gear it took every thing out up front. I searched for 5 years for parts for cheap. I brought a 140 engine off ebay that had a cracked block, I used the timing parts, cam crank and cylinder head. I put fire crater pistons in it this engine will hunt. I got the hydraulic pump off of a guy here for $25 he had put a new seal in it the pump looked new. He would not let me pay him till I installed it and confirmed the pump was good.

It always amazes me how well they fire up its instant none are cold natured they are ready to go to work.

(quoted from post at 18:16:28 05/28/23) I love an offset Farmall! Best garden
tractors! Your garden is looking good!

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On the last two pix when my son was coming along I had it set up for baseball, 14X70 hitting cage pitching machine and a few other stations. I got back into coaching so working on setting that spot back up for practice. I picked up on how Larry does his back yard garden and I like it. It can rain the next day I can work the garden : )

On the pix that's fenced in all that's mine is the corn I do the tractor work for the use of three rows.

The pix with the scare crows is behind my aunts house I revived that spot to plant my tatters in next year. It was difficult to work its tacky clay : ( I posted a pix of a 2lb matter that came off that spot years back I guess it was the chicken chit I had spread on it that made that big matter.

First Iever asw one the local Ford tractor dealer had a pair with belly
mowers seting on trade in row. Now once in a great while you will see an
ofset IH at a tractor show. A, SA or 140. think only one I ever saw with an
implement was those at the ford dealer