[AT] Oliver 55 - Super 55 vs 8N vs VAO

[charlie hill]

When my dad closed his service station and started back to farming in 1959 
he bought a new D-10 Allis.  We shared work and equipment with my uncle who 
farmed with a Farmall 140 and a MF 35.  Our D-10 was brand new.  I'm not 
sure of the age of his MF 35 but it was just like new and didn't even have a 
scratch on it and I think his 140 came along the year after our D-10.  I had 
a chance to run all of them a good bit.  They all had their good points. 
You couldn't beat the 140 for one row cultivating of tobacco, beyond that it 
had it's limitations.  The D-10 would out pull it and out work it with 2 x 
14 bottom plow.  The MF 35 was no good for one row plowing of tobacco or 
corn because it was too low to the ground.  However, put the two row 
cultivators on the 3pt behind the 35 in a soybean field and there was no 
need to even start the Allis or the Farmall up.  It was also much faster 
with the bottom plows.  It had more gear selections and in many respects was 
more usable than the Farmall or the Allis.  I'm partial to the Allis 
tractors because that is what we had but the Ferguson tractors are about as 
"smart", as the guys around here would say, as they come.  To me, as a boy, 
driving the MF 35 was like driving a sports car.

If you grew up driving a MF 30, 35, 135, 145, 235, etc. and someone 
blindfolded you today and put you on an 80's model 40 to 60 HP JD, AC, IH, 
Oliver, Ford or Case you could probably drive it away without taking off the 
blindfold.  The operator controls are all pretty much the same and in 
similar locations.  To me Massey Furgeson set the standard for modern 
utility tractors.  The Ford and Fordson tractors had their place but  to me 
they were just knockoffs of a Massey Furgeson.

Oh by the way, the spin out wheels that they all us are an Allis Chalmers 
patent.

Charlie


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Edchainsaw at aol.com>
To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 10:57 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Oliver 55 - Super 55 vs 8N vs VAO


>
> YES  Farmer  its  Great to get to see someone you've   read  about ---
> kinda like  meating  Mark  Twain.
> :)
>
> We grew up  Massey People--   and  have to say   still  like the MF245 as 
> the
> ULTimate   in that   N'series  lineage.. (ya  Ford-Fergusons )    but
> would  like to try one of those  newer  JD5000 series  just  to make 
> sure....
> and ya  that  245 stil dont have  REAL live   pto...  that 2 stage clutch 
> is
> just a pain sometimes
>
>
> In a message dated 8/29/2008 12:09:08 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> at-request at lists.antique-tractor.com writes:
>
> [AT]  Oliver 55 - Super 55 vs 8N vs  VAO
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