not orange buying advice

smack him. 

Been there and done that.  Will not do it again.  Neato little tractors but SERIOUSLY underpowered.  Unusable, IMO.

I agree with being underpowered. My dad has one he mows with. Works good mowing level ground. Overpriced I think but they are cute little things.

Thanks guys... I forgot to mention it is JUST for piddling in the yard and pushing 'light' snow...He had one or drove one when he was a youngen so that is the reason for the "want one" ... more sentimental than anything

the ones with the cast iron rear end were the best ones!

I have a 49 with a blade cycle bar mower plow and cultivator good for mowing weeds and 3 or 4 inches of snow have a g for plowing and cultivating the garden, bad thing is the pto turns the wrong way at the wrong speed so cannot us it to run elevator without extra gear box.

Floyd if he has memories with one, and it sounds like it,,,,,,,, tell him to go ahead and buy it if the deal is right................

So... I've never owned an IH/F-Cub. I've owned it's younger brother, the 154... a low-slung machine seemingly intended for running a belly mower.

Yes, thermosyphon cooled. The engine is called C60... it's a 60 cubic inch inline four, made by IH. It's smooth, but being flathead, doesn't have gobs of compression, doesn't breathe like an OHV, and it's not spinning like a FoodNinja... so no, they're not powerhouses.

The IH/F-Cub was originally built to replace a single-horse farm circumstance... single bottom 12 plow, a two- row mounted cultivator, or a sickle bar. With compact size and offset seating, a garden plot/truck farming application was the target... so the Allis G comparison is appropriate. The Allis G's Continental motivation was probably more capable than the C-60.

The Allis B, though, stomped the F-Cub into the ground in basically all categories other than crop visibility between the operator's feet.

Yeah, I'd pull a wagon with my B... anywhere on flat land, or up any hill it'd take. Going downhill... well... it'd be a bit unnerving... but I certainly would do it with a B before an IH/F-Cub.

But I'll bet this guy's application is simply enthusiast/entertainment value... something that keeps a man well adhered to his memories. That being the case, there's really only one machine that could be used in place of the F-cub in his memories...

...that'd be another F-cub.   

Go for it! Any old tractor, is a great old tractor.

I was raised with a W C and a D/14 on a small farm but we had a cub to plant and plow one row at a time and a five foot mower.It was a little small but we done heaver work with A C.One year we had different crops  and rented some land .When all added up it was around fifty acres .We cultivated it all with the cub .Give it what it will take and wait on it.I have a AC  B and where a row comes to edge of field I can turn a cub while I am stopping to put B out of gear to get lift up and down.

When I was growing up we had a neighbor that had a Cub. We borrowed it a lot one summer and I learned to cultivate corn with it.

Again, thanks guys, I have passed on the wisdom... ...Dave is right on the entertainment value (and sentiment) ...if my friend buys the Cub it will do veery little work.