[AT] [External] Re: Nice Tractor Day
Indiana Robinson
robinson46176 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 11 17:05:01 PST 2019
This area (Central Indiana) was well represented with Oliver Dealers and I
recall many around when I was growing up in the 1950's.
Two of my 3 son-in-laws are sort of close to my age. Both of those
daughters went through two complete loser husbands about their age then
decided that they wanted more mature husbands. (both have been happy with
their 3rd husband) I mention that only because # 2 daughter married a guy
who grew up in a fairly busy Oliver dealership in the 1960's. His dad's
dealership was about 8 miles south west of here and another Oliver dealer
was about 4 miles east of here. About 20 miles to the north in the next
county seat town was an old very busy and high volume Oliver dealer.
You don't see a lot of old Oliver's here today. I have no idea what kind of
sales figures they ran but I knew of quite a few around the community but
I can't think of any right now. I did once own an Oliver 88 Diesel and son
Scott used an Oliver 1755 for a number of years. I don't know where Scott's
1755 ended up but my 88 Diesel was bought by two brothers who were buying
it to make into a puller. They started doing a few things to it and decided
they liked it well enough to drop some money into it for a full restore.
White tractors were fairly common here during their time but I don't see
those here any more.
I once read that a lot of our "orphaned"
tractors were exported to Mexico???
.
On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 3:05 PM Gunnells, Brad R <brad-gunnells at uiowa.edu>
wrote:
> Tyler, where in eastern Iowa did you get it? There is a man named Dave
> Hahn near Iowa City that does a lot of work with Olivers. I think he buys
> some at auction and fixes them up. So I was just curious.
>
> Brad
>
> On 11/10/19, 8:17 PM, "AT on behalf of Tyler Juranek" <
> at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com on behalf of tylerpolkaman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi John,
> I live near Council Bluffs, Iowa, which is in the southwest portion.
> There aren't very many olivers around here, and so this one I bought
> from a guy in eastern Iowa. The olivers that are around here are
> mostly all gas burners. Nothing against gas power, but after all the
> crap I had to fix with the 88, I wanted diesel. So far, its been
> great!
> Where do you live again, John?
> Tyler
>
> On 11/10/19, John Slavin <chaunceyjb at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > Tyler:
> >
> > Great picture! I’m trying to remember, what part of Iowa do you
> live in?
> >
> > John S.
> >
> >> Message: 1
> >> Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2019 21:38:30 -0600
> >> From: Tyler Juranek <tylerpolkaman at gmail.com>
> >> To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> >> Subject: [AT] Nice Tractor Day
> >> Message-ID:
> >> <CAOesHmCCR3+QvqK1GMhiYr2Lrk09NUXVKRFgE6Q5rWFUx=
> 5bug at mail.gmail.com>
> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >> Today was an absolutely fantastic day outside here in the portion of
> >> Iowa where I live. It was supposed to get up to at least 60 today.
> Not
> >> sure if it did, but the temps were outstanding. Dad and I worked
> >> outside all day cleaning out the shed. As you might imagine, it did
> >> include moving the tractors out.
> >> I did get the John Deere A going today and got it out and wiped it
> >> down with rags and let it run outside for about two hours or so. It
> >> wanted to only run on #2 today, so if I had to put money on it I
> think
> >> the mag cap is probably dirty or something. It isn't getting any
> juice
> >> to the number 1 cylinder. If it does, it isn't for long.
> >> We also moved all of dad's tractors out. He has the Farmall 966, an
> >> 886, a New Holland, and the little Oliver 550. Of course my 770
> diesel
> >> also came out, but not until later.
> >> While we were reorganizing things inside, our neighbor from up the
> >> road came over. I like to call him "Grandpa Bob", since he is one of
> >> those "grandpa to everybody" guys that's always hanging around. He
> >> took all the tractors down the road, with the exception of my 770.
> >> We had a nice visit also and reminisced about all of the good times
> >> we've all had with the old iron.
> >> Bob always likes to drive the 550 that dad bought this July, so now
> we
> >> call it Bob's 550. Hahahaha.
> >> After we were about done with everything, I did get the 770 out for
> a
> >> joyride. As you all might remember, I am visually impaired so it
> does
> >> have a buddy seat on it. I like to call the person who rides with me
> >> the "navigator" as all they do is assist me in knowing which way to
> >> go. I attached a picture here of it also. The buddy seat was
> >> originally built for my Oliver 88, but when I sold the 88 I kept it
> >> and use it on my 770 now. If you look closely, you can see the shed
> in
> >> the background along with a tree at the neighbors.
> >> It was taken by the road.
> >> All in all, it was a fantastic and fun-filled day! Probably the last
> >> nice one for awhile, as it is supposed to get down into the 30s
> >> tonight, snow flurries tomorrow, and 15 on Monday morning!
> >> Anyone else doing any tractor related activities this weekend?
> >> Take Care,
> >> Tyler Juranek
> >> IA
> > _______________________________________________
> > AT mailing list
> > AT at lists.antique-tractor.com
> > http://lists.antique-tractor.com/listinfo.cgi/at-antique-tractor.com
> >
> _______________________________________________
> AT mailing list
> AT at lists.antique-tractor.com
> http://lists.antique-tractor.com/listinfo.cgi/at-antique-tractor.com
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> AT mailing list
> AT at lists.antique-tractor.com
> http://lists.antique-tractor.com/listinfo.cgi/at-antique-tractor.com
>
--
--
Francis Robinson
aka "farmer"
Central Indiana USA
robinson46176 at gmail.com
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.antique-tractor.com/pipermail/at-antique-tractor.com/attachments/20191111/667e8d32/attachment.htm>
More information about the AT
mailing list