[AT] Little Oli

[Tyler Juranek]

Hi Farmer,
 Do you like the unstyled 60 or the styled Oliver 60 better?
 Take Care,
 Tyler Juranek
 IA

On 3/10/15, Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've only owned one Oliver, it was back when I was buying and selling. It
> was an Oliver 88 Diesel. Good running tractor. I brought it home and used
> it some for some disking. I sold it to two brothers that wanted to pull it.
> They were going to put a new injection pump on it and "freshen it up a
> bit". They got caught up in the fun and did a total ground up restoration.
> :-)
> I always loved listening to son Scott's 1755 Oliver especially if he was
> running in one of the fields away from the house and I was working in the
> shop.
> These days I have something like an Oliver 60 on my wish list. Now that I
> just odd job and want to show I have become fond of the smaller tractors.
> They are more typical of what our small farm neighbors had around us when I
> was a kid in the 1940's and 1950's.
> Then again I could be forced to take a Super 55 if someone wanted to give
> me one.
> :-)
> One neighbor had a Case VAC (I now have 2). Two other neighbors both had 8N
> Fords (I now have 2) . The fellow behind us had a SC Case and an Allis CA
> (I have an Allis C) (those had replaced his horses in 1946). Another farm
> west of us was farmed by two brothers using 2 new John Deere B's and one
> south of us used a JD B. In 1951 we were farming 220 acres with a Ferguson
> TO-20 (I now have 1) and a 9N Ford/Ferguson (on the target list). We had a
> few neighbors using 3 plow tractors but not very many until later years.
> Oh, yeah, one close neighbor did buy a new Oliver 77 about the same time we
> bought a new Ford Jubilee. He had been using a couple of very tired (really
> tired) old AC WC's and a 9N Ford/Ferguson. He was a very good long time
> neighbor but an absolutely awful mechanic... His stuff barely ran most of
> the time and his old tractors all went to the scrappers. The really funny
> part of that was that when he could no longer make it farming and rented
> the farm out he got a job with the state... Wait for it... Maintaining stop
> lights...
> :-)  :-)
>
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>
> Francis Robinson
> aka "farmer"
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson46176 at gmail.com
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