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chucksoliver77

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• Feb 6, 2013

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I volunteer 2 days a week at the hospital thrift shop and this gadget was donated and no one knows what it is. put a couple tractor pics to keep it sort of on topic, Chuck

 

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ShadetreeRet

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• Feb 6, 2013

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Makes for a good conversation piece, doesn't it?

 

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ShadetreeRet

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• Feb 6, 2013

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Oh yes, I like the tractor pix as well. I would like to have a Ford Workmaster, but they must not be many available.

 

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Larry NEIL

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• Feb 6, 2013

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Looks like it's for dethorning rose stems...

Great picture of ...Your?...Oliver 77 plowing!
A little wet that day, huh?

 

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SuperHank

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• Feb 6, 2013

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I hope you don"t use that device to pick up the parts of that fellow riding on the fenders of that Oliver. Looks like the plows would cut him to small bits.

 

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casenut1

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• Feb 6, 2013

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Wife has one.used to place cookie dough on cookie
sheet. pick up a hunk of dough, then push down and
it slides it off.

 

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RLA

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• Feb 6, 2013

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I've had one of those for years.

They're for piercing the nose on alligators.

 

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JRSutton

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• Feb 6, 2013

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ear nothcher?

 

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Eldon (WA)

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• Feb 6, 2013

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Fortune cookie maker....

 

Steve in VA

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Natural Bridge Virginia

• Feb 6, 2013

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fleam

 

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Chuck (CA)

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• Feb 6, 2013

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Yep, Casenut1 has it right.. Showed the picture to Mrs. Chuck(CA)the baker and she knew what it was right away.

 

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Adirondack case guy

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• Feb 6, 2013

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I have to laugh at the ironeys in the pic of the 77. With a muffler, a 77 was one of the quietest tractors in farm fields. The operator and the pasanger, which is a NoNo, and on the RH side to boot; and both are wearing ear protection, (must be a saftey issue), but the tractor is straight piped LOL. As to the tool, I have no clue.
Loren, the Acg.

 

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chucksoliver77

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• Feb 6, 2013

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hey case guy, you got me on the safety issue as far as having a passenger, this 77 is also used for tractor pulling and pulls from the 4500 to the 10500 lb classes with wins in all and puts out near a 100 horses and is quite loud. to much trouble to put a muffler on it to plow one day and pull the next with the straight pipe. sounds good though, chuck

 

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chucksoliver77

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• Feb 6, 2013

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Larry, thanks for the nice comment, yes that is my 77, my dad bought it new in 52. It was almost too wet, but we did about 38 acres that day with about 18 tractors plowing. thank Chuck

 

Fawteen

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Location

Downeast Maine

• Feb 6, 2013

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The combination of ear muffs and a straight pipe kinda tickled my funny bone too.

I'll no doubt be flamed for this but I can't TELL you how tired I am of the safety nannies pointing out every possibility of danger no matter how remote. I wish I had a dollar for every hour I spent riding fenders when I was a kid.

When did we turn into such a nation of wusses? Good lord, we spend $150 on a bicycle and $300 on helmet, elbow pads, knee pads, safety glasses, shin guards et cetera ad infinitum and then not let the kid out of our sight for fear they'll snatched and force-fed cyclamate-laced twinkies or something.

Rant off...

 

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chucksoliver77

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• Feb 6, 2013

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Fawteen, thanks, when i was growing up my girl friends and Buddy's all rode on that 77 with me. seems like someone always has to say something negative, Chuck

 

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Royse

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• Feb 6, 2013

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As a young boy I was riding about like that, on a JD 2 cylinder.
Hand clutch on the right side too, of course.
Plow caught a tree root, tractor stopped and off the front I went.
Right down between the tire and the flywheel.
Dad couldn't pull the clutch very well because I had fallen in the way.
Tree root held, I didn't get run over, but I did get a nice "rug burn"
on the side of my forehead as I went by that spinning flywheel!
I don't know how we survived without all the safety rules.
Great looking Ollie!

 

Steve in VA

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Location

Natural Bridge Virginia

• Feb 7, 2013

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again; it's a fleam.

 

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chucksoliver77

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• Feb 7, 2013

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Steve, are you sure? I looked up fleam and it said it is a blood letting tool, also used for docking a dog's tail. This tool would not do either. Just curious, chuck