Another old picture

rrlund · Dec 22, 2014

Sherry is featuring the Oliver Hart Parr 70 in the next issue of Oliver Heritage,so I just sent her this picture of Grandpa on the one Uncle Claude had. Note the dual 8x40 tires on the back. I wish I had that tractor back around here,but it got traded in on a new Shepard SD3.

larry@stinescorner · Dec 22, 2014

nice picture! Did you buy the 250 dollar oliver 60??

RayP(MI) · Dec 22, 2014

Well, not the best neighborhood, but neat picture. Thanks for sharing. My dad had a set of duals on his '47 JD B in the early '50s while working up some muck land recently reclaimed, for pasture. Seeded it to reed canary grass which still grows there. Last year in late November I tried to drive across it with a MF 180. Not pretty - guess I should have put on the duals! Thought my dad was the only farmer around who ever did duals around here.

rrlund · Dec 22, 2014

I emailed him to see if he'd be around in the morning. He said he had to work. I told him I'd try to get with him later in the week.

rrlund · Dec 22, 2014

There was an Oliver dealer in St Johns that was advertising those for the mint growers over there. Claude used to go over that way for combine parts now and then. I've got a hunch that's where he got the idea. Sherry had a copy of that ad in the magazine two or three years ago.

Brown Swiss · Dec 22, 2014

Neat pic, got a couple antique end loaders in the pic also! LOL

greg oliver · Dec 22, 2014

rrlund, great picture! my neighbor has barn doors designed like that. I will be watching for the picture in Oliver Heritage, love that magazine. Greg

Trkr · Dec 22, 2014

Nice old picture,whatever happened to the Sheppard?

gwstang · Dec 22, 2014

I love these old pics that everyone has posted. Is that a target on the right side of the barn (right where the tractor nose is at)?

rrlund · Dec 23, 2014

That got traded on an Oliver 88 diesel. Claude always said the Shepard was the one tractor that he wished he'd never gotten rid of.

J.Wondergem · Dec 23, 2014

That brings back memorys. Forking manure in the Spring, off the pile made, after the snow got too deep to spread. It was packed in there hard, and made for a lot of work.

01gentdc · Dec 23, 2014

true ,, but we always worked out the layer slabs ,as they give out , went ok ,, but it was still hard work ,, one day all 3of us brothers and dad forkt 28 loads on a new idea,, pop gave us beer til we were tired of it LOl ,, we wanted water .a lot to be said about staying slim and wirey from that sort of work .we were lean and trim in those days ,, and could work like a dog all day and a bull all nite ,.LOl...love the duals on the h-p .. I had a 70 that was a brother to it ..

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