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

[Cecil Bearden]

I had spin out wheels on my WD Allis.  I traded in my 9N ford that was 
always broke down for a WD Allis and loved the tractor.  Only problem 
was that is was so slow in  high gear.  And you sat on it with your feet 
out straight in front of you.  I think I have back problems from those 
rough fields today when the seat would bottom out and my butt was driven 
up into my neck.

Cecil in OKla

charlie hill wrote:
> 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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