[AT] Little Oli

[Spencer Yost]

Congrats!    I was just missing my diesel 77 row crop the other day.

Spencer

> On Mar 9, 2015, at 22:48, Tyler Juranek <tylerpolkaman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> As many of you know, I've been looking for an Oliver 88 for awhile.
> Somehow, I found one. Yay!
> A few weeks ago I was at my grandfather's place. Him and I were
> looking at some of the old iron that he has up there, and he took me
> to the shed that housed the 88 I always drive around out there to kill
> time.
> Anyway, he looked at me saying, "there's your pile of bolts." I was
> rather puzzled...
> Going on then, I offered to buy the tractor from him and he said he'd think.
> I teased him about it for awhile, and he said something about
> "giving" it to me. I was puzzled again...
> To make a long story short, last night it followed us home. Tonight,
> it's in the shed.
> This particular 88 has the original motor that still purs like a tiny
> kitten. It also still has the belt pulley that works good, live PTO,
> and rockshaft.
> This particular 88 doesn't have hydrolics unfortunately.
> It has the lights to, but for some reason they don't work. Not sure
> where to even start there.
> So we unloaded it today and I drove it around for awhile. Runs pretty good!
> Sorry Dean VP, but the JD a had to go to the other side of the shed
> to make room for the Oliver. It wasn't all to happy about it. (grin!)
> Just thought I'd share this. Do we have any other Oliver collectors on here?
> This 88 has much sentimental value to me, and the 88 has some very
> significant history in our family.
> Have a good day!
> Tyler Juranek
> IA
> 
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