If only I had money...

For 7 years now this one has been torturing me to fix her up. I was plowing in the fall of '01 when I lost oil pressure and it started smoking and knocking really bad. I shut it down before it punched through the block, so atleast there isn't any holes through it.

2 years ago the right side rear went flat- a cut opened up between 2 lugs. I jacked it up and put the axle housing on some cribbing, but the tire still has fluid in it so I'm sure the rim is rusting.

We're slowly (painfully) working on taking down a machine shed on a distant relatives farm and moving it to our farm, where we'll later add on and make an insulated shop with a bunch of goodies to work on stuff year round. Then I might be able to get the tire fixed and roll it inside where I can start to tear into it and go as I can afford.



Hard to beleive it's been dead this long. I've had the thought of making it a puller and naming it "Oliver Twist", and putting a Cummins in it. Has an 1855 rear end, and if I put a cummins in it I'd have an 1850 tub, and then the only original things on it would be the platform probably... Could be fun I guess.

Maybe I'd call it a 171855-T 5.9...

Donovan from Wisconsin

BTW- I take donations for my fund... Just write the check out to "Cash"...

Sounds like we're in the same boat. I hope you have success. My father-in-law parked a LA Case because the radiator was leaking and......Yea, now it's stuck, rims shot(fluid..) A couple hundred bucks spent when needed and we'd probably have a useable tractor yet today. I've done the same with a car or two. Human nature I guess.

My dad doesn't want to stick any more money into it since he already invested somewhere between $15-20,000 in it in the few years we had it and it still had major issues. I think if the transmission is fixed and if the engine gets a proper ovrhaul, it just might be a tractor worth having again.

I'd love to find another canopy to put on this one like I have on the 1855 from a 2-85. I see there is a guy making them new to look original for $1300. $1400 if you want him to paint it...

My 1600 was parked for a while too- It had 2 urnt valves and could hardly move under it's own power anymore. Finally I took it upon myself to tear into it and work on it. Put a lot of money into it but it was worth it.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Don--is there any family connection to this tractor or is it that you just want to save it?

No family connection- Dad bought it in the late 90's with an Allis Chalmer loader on it, and a stick w/ a rag wrapped around it stuck in the radiator in place of the cap. I just want to save it and be able to use it a little more. Was a decent tractor when it ran...

This is what I would love to have...

just a thought--if those hydraulics took on any water, that could be some very bad news. That girls looking weathered....hate to say what you guys pry been thinking...parting it out

This is what I'd almost give my left nut for- an 840 self propelled chopper...



Donovan from Wisconsin

Is that a 7600 or 7800? I can't really make out the model number. I just bought a 7600 sight unseen. I need to get it home this spring, it's 400 miles away. How bad are you looking for one? I might be willing to sell it. Let me know.

Adam - WI

I know what you are talking about. I just got my JD 70 back together. I tore it down at Christmas time 2 years ago. Just going to do rings and valves and bearings-NOT. Ended up with new pistons and block bored, crank turned. Just worked on it as I had extra $$. I started it for the first time last Monday. Still needs a new flywheel and some other small stuff. I have a few minor problems on the 1850's that need fixed, but they will have to wait till I can afford it. Hope things get better for all of us. Chris

Wish I had that much passion for that 70 that's sitting in the tool shed. Think I'll check the serial number. Maybe it's the one that that guy's looking for in that ad in Oliver Heritage. Would be nice if I could trade it for something that I give a darn about.

I wish I had a serial number or anything to track down grandpa's HP 70- he sold it the summer before he died. got a bug up his arse to sell some things and the 70 was one of those things to go.

Had spider wheels on the back and rubber on the front, but there was a set of rear rubber in another shed that went along for the ride, along with some cultivators for a farmall of some sort- probably his Super C that got traded in for our 285. All ways of tracking it down are pretty well dead, so it's pretty much a lost cause there. Dad also traded in a 77 (maybe a super) along with the C for the 285.

The biggest probelm with this one is that I have time for a project (most of the time) but I know the funds just aint there so i don't even want to get started and have another tractor I have $10,000 in. Plus the amount of time it ewould take, we have no indoor place to tear it apart and let it sit for a while. Hopefully that changes in the next year or 2.

Anyone wanna buy a steel arch shed made by American Steel? I think it'll make a 45x80 shed once assembled.... We're trying to sell that one since we never put it up, so we can afford to put up the pole shed instead- It's just a little cheaper for us this way since we don't have to purchase the pole shed.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Don:
Been in the same boat with a 1755. The darn thing just hated me. Stuck a boat load of money into it and it just continued to give me grief. Finally decided to cut my losses and bought a 1955 to replace it. I needed a bit more power anyway and figured all the good stuff I did to the 17 could be swapped over to the 19 or my 1655 and I'd have a pretty good set up. The 1955 has been 100% fantastic, and my 1655 now has a freshly rebuilt 310 compliments of the 1755. It does my heart good to see that 1755 carcass sitting in the weeds. However; if you're interested in the transmission-rearend from my 1755 and some really sweet sheet metal (or anything else), I'll make you a heck of a deal. Could be interested in a partial trade toward that shed of yours. I'm about 40 mi south of Madison. My e-mail is open if interested.
Scott

Well, it's got a 1855 rear end in it now, so the transmission should be good to go.

Our 1855 was also purchased to replace the 1755, and it's been a great tractor also. It did loose the clutch while chopping one year and blew a few hydraulic lines at bad times(steering, pump, etc) but now I think those bugs are for the most part worked out. When it lost the clutch while chopping corn we could atleast put it on the bagger we had rented instead so we really didn't have much down time. Still managed to chop about 30 acres in 2 days with our old Fox 3000.

I'd have to ask my dad what he's asking for the shed- it's his call what to do with it and how much to part with it for.

Donovan from Wisconsin

I know where Dads old 66 is. We sold what was left of it to a boneyard after we took the motor out and put it in a Super55. I went and looked at what was left of it when I restored his second 66. He didn't have the second one very long and I thought I could take two and make one,use the transmission and rearend from the old one so it'd be the right serial number anyway. There just waasn't enough left of that thing to bother. Much as I'd have liked to,someimes you just have to know when you're looking at a lost cause.

Huh, that looks about identical to my FOX??

I hauled one home looked like that one three years back for a friend of mine could have bought it for 1500 had a nice hole in the block. I'm still kicking myself for not buying it. Is being married a blessing or not??

The heads are interchangeable, but I guess Oliver built it on their own. Just based on the Fox apparantly. Still something that I'd like to have some day.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Reminds me of an old saying my grandpa had- "I don't care if you're rich or poor, its always good to have money." I couldn't agree more.

If I had money I would restore my ford and my cockshutts as well as my farmall super m which holds sentimental value once belonging to my great grandfather and every generation under him until me. As much as I love the cockshutts this will always be the favourite and if I was only told to keep one tractor the super m would be it. Needs alot but only a bit at a time. I have lots of time but none of the other key ingrediant. I'll just have to settle for winning the lottery..................