Okay-what about *THIS* tractor?

Fb the 140 came with 2 14 inch plows i think, if you put a fire crater kit in it it'd pull 2 16's and a 5' bush hog. The kit basically gave the motor the same power as a Super C.
By comparison a Super often came with one 16" plow, but alot of folks got 2 12's.
They were real popular in this part of the country, plow tobacco, corn, and when soybeans came in, folks would bolt two cole planters side by side and plant two rows of beans about 24 inches apart.

The cleats are of different design, but if the size is the same, and I bet it is, that wont matter. It looks like he had a grill guard on the front of it. Maybe with a hitch to pull it around.

seems like you could do 3 or 4 rows that way. I wouldn't have thought they had the weight to pull 2 14s.

There is a bumper on the front, if a trailer hitch is welded on the front it's a plus. There looks to be 4 trip shanks under the front, and on the back are a set of spring cultivators.
Do you know if it comes with a fast hitch.

I do think I will ask him if I can come by tomorrow morning with my work gloves and see how hard it would be to change the attachments around a bit. Maybe with some WD 40 the job would be easier. Also, I think maybe a grooming mower is a much better idea than a belly mower. I could easily mow the yard weekly and if it's that hard to take on and off, I might not want to be doing that a lot.

Does something this old need 100% gas instead of the corn syrup they sell these days? I would think that the gas in the 50's-60's would have been different back then ...

Not sure but I will be taking a note pad full of questions with me when I go back!

I wouldn't buy that tractor . Offset PTO & no 3 point hitch , that style is obsolete & a real pain in the rear for modern implements .

They done two rows, to keep from buying extra equipment. You didn't need extra frame, and rowmarkers to do two rows, and you could use your one row cultivator shanks switched around.

Basically the tractor , had all the stuff a McCormick 4 two horse cultivator had, it just would pull plows and a disc, a 4' bush and bog with 24" blades, a 5' gang disc with 18" blades, and a two 24" disc plow I think.
I've seen two row planters for cubs, even...not around here though.
Few people had 4 row planters in the eighties in this part the country!

Does something this old need 100% gas instead of the corn syrup they sell these days? I would think that the gas in the 50's-60's would have been different back then ...

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It was made for unleaded gas, but there are several thousand in this county running on the "corn syrup". It it best though, to have a fuel shut off, and let the new mess burn out completely...saves a gummed up carburator.

Did you ever post pictures of the Ford? IF we figured out the model, we could get you going on it. Figure out what you were wanting to do and help you with implements. Other than cultivating, all the jobs you mentioned, the Ford would do better if in decent shape....James

That's the way I shut off all my tractors. Youd be amazed at what all they used to burn in the olden days. JD had a saying. If you could get it into the tank the D would burn it. Stove fuel, drip gas, coal oil, which is a lower grade than Kerosene, tho the name interchanges, kerosene.

Don't know James. IF it WILL pull 2 14s, and she puts a 3pt onto it. It will pull all the 8N will and its a quarter century newer.

A belly mower for that tractor would have a long belt from a rear pulley down to the mower deck. Your ford would be PTO drive. The cultivator is for rows, not for working a garden before planting....James

It MAY have up/down pressure on the lift also?

yep That's the way my belly mower is set up. Likely all of them are.

Bill, it will not pull a 3pt 2-14" plow. The front end will go straight up. They would pull 2-12" on the original lift, the pull was from the middle of the tractor. You reversed the U drawbar up under the tractor and pulled from there....James

James-I can take some tomorrow. I may have but it would have been a couple of years ago when I first moved out here.

Other than cosmetic issues, there is a knocking in the engine. The man who came out this summer and cleaned out the carburator and charged the battery said it only knocks when it idles so if it were his tractor he would just ignore it. The thing that gets me is that several folks who have seen it (usually some older gentlemen who come out to help with bush hogging or barn building) say that all the people they know who work on old Fords have died. That kind of worries me a bit.

Okay so there is a method to shutting it off other than pushing the button? I saw where the guy was adjusting the gas flow under the hood in the front. Is shutting that off better than just turning it off?

Here is a video of how a 1 point plow is hooked up to the 140. It is very close coupled and has no long 3pt arms. This is different than the early 140 plows that hooked to the lift on the one PP is showing, has....James

Go to U TUBES. Type in Farmall 140. I found 8 pages with likely over 100 vids of the 140 and dates from 59 to 78
IF you can get the ser# off of it, I can tell you the year.