My 3 big ones

rrlund · Mar 4, 2018

I was just sitting at the kitchen table looking out the slider and noticed how well the Oliver 1850,White 2-105 and White 2-135 were lined up without me even trying when I parked them. Seeing the little Oliver 66 sitting there in front of them made me think of how that was Dad's big,main tractor. He'd buy a different tractor and cultivator every spring to help out with haying and cultivating,then he'd sell it in the fall. Now I've got all that big iron here and think it's "necessary". Times change.

DeltaRed · Mar 4, 2018

yes,they do.........These days I'm farming less and less....With more and bigger tractors.In the 'old' days there was a superM and 706. Then the '7' got a turbo. And I worked a full time job.Now I have a 1456,1256,826H,the 'old '7' and SuperM and some others.And no 'job'And I not getting done what needs to be done.But,it's cool to look out and see the 'fleet' all lined up and in order.My Dad farmed with an 8N and worked full time as well.Always talked of buying a 'big M'.

Gary Mitchell · Mar 4, 2018

I get that. Dad and grandpa farmed right at 330 acres of row crops with a Super H and 460 Farmall. They milked a small grade A herd, filled 2 pit silos, and put up enough hay for the herd and calves they fed out. The silo and hay work got shared with a couple of other local farmers. gm

NYOlivers · Mar 4, 2018

That's a nice picture of them all parked like that. It is amazing to think how the 66 was a big tractor for its time and just think on other farms now the 2-135 is a small tractor compared to some. Times do change...

NEKS · Mar 4, 2018

When was home in the 50's two neighbors had a total of one 70 and three 77's. They had boys too so never got to drive one. 77's must of put you in the big tractor class.

rrlund · Mar 4, 2018

Ya,I bought a 77 in 1969. That one had hydraulics and was quite a step up. I had to get a whole different line of tillage tools for it.

fixerupper · Mar 4, 2018

All through the fifties dad farmed 240 acres with a 51 Deere A and a 35 Deere A. Then the new 630 came on the farm in fall of ‘60 and was the king all through the 60’s with the ‘51 A being secondary. In 1968 dad bought 320 more acres putting our acreage up to 560 acres, too much for those tractors to do everything so the 51 A and the 630 were put on row crop cultivating only for a few years. Now those three tractors are retired to the shed most of the time.

Dave H (MI) · Mar 4, 2018

Yeah, but you don't want to go back. I started cutting hay for the kids goats 17 years ago with that SMTA the tree fell on Thursday. I still REALLY like cutting 10-20 acres of hay with that tractor. But I am not looking to spend my life on it. When it is cold a a light drizzle coming down I am just as happy to be in the cab of the 1586. I've run into yellow jacket nests with the mower. Once was chased by a swarm of honey bees for a good 300 feet. Burning sun, itchy chaff, dust. I'm pretty sure your Dad would agree. Still nice to spend a day under a blue sky on an old row crop listening to the engine...

rrlund · Mar 4, 2018

Ya,that 2-105 has three holes in the back window that look like bullet holes. They're from the discbine throwing small stones. If any one of them had hit me in the head as hard as they had to be flung to do what they did to that window,I'd be dead.

LAA · Mar 4, 2018

I missed a heck of a deal on a 2-135 last week, still kicking myself.

larry@stinescorner · Mar 4, 2018

Beautiful picture!!!this is all I got,,old reruns .

rrlund · Mar 4, 2018

It looks lonely. You need a few more in there to keep it company. lol

J. Schwiebert · Mar 4, 2018

The first year my employer was in business (1955) he sold a new super 88 diesel to a man. It was a wet spring and farmers were behind. This man had 3 boys so they ran the super 88 around the clock stopping just long enough to fuel up and change oil. You can get a lot of work done in a week or 10 days if you run a tractor around the clock! In 5 years when I was employed there we found out there were many, many hours on that tractor!

rrlund · Mar 4, 2018

Uncle Claude's Oliver Hart Parr 70 was the same way. It was one of the first tractors in the neighborhood and they did a lot of custom work with it. They ran that one in shifts 24 hours a day a good amount of the time. That one was on tip toe so it was only a 4 speed. I remember them telling one time of loading the plow and a 55 gallon barrel of gas on the trailer and driving the tractor 25 miles north to plow a field,then driving it back up there in the fall pulling the Allis Chalmers All-Crop combine to cut clover seed.
That one was only here for about two years before the traded it off for one on rubber with the faster transmission.

larry@stinescorner · Mar 4, 2018

too late for that,,the two I have may go down the road,,,lol

IanC · Mar 4, 2018

My Grandma on the new (to us) 2-150. She thought it was kind of funny that one tractor had more power than all the prior machines they'd farmed with put together (70, 66, S77D, HG, and a General). Scan is of an old Polaroid, they didn't hold up well.

Goose · Mar 4, 2018

When I was in high school, I worked for one of the neighbors during the summers. We farmed over 400 acres with a WD Allis and a C Allis. We did the same thing with the WD. During busy times, between the two of us we kept the WD running nonstop from 6am to 10pm, shut down only long enough to refuel.

I have no idea how many hours the WD accumulated. He was still using it after I graduated from high school and joined the Marine Corps. By then he had another kid working for him and they did the same.

JD Seller · Mar 4, 2018

IanC : That picture is really neat of your Grand Mother. I have not seen very many 2-150s that where factory open station tractors.

JD Seller · Mar 4, 2018

Randy your 1850 and 2-105 both have Perkins in them???? Is much of the rest of the tractor the same?? I sold a few 2-105s an they seemed to be well liked and sold very well too. Stayed away from the smaller Olivers as they just did not sell as well. Well I take that back, the 1655s sold good. Traded in an 1955 and had a heck of time selling it.

NY 986 · Mar 4, 2018

When I was in school 100 HP was the benchmark for size during the 1970's around here. Dad bought a used 145 HP tractor with plow to make the jump above 100 HP back in the mid-1970's. For what he gained in savings and HP he lost in breakdowns and repair bills. The good old 4010 diesel was there to cover for the larger tractor when the larger tractor went down. A little earlier than that we had the 4010, Oliver 88, and Farmall M to run the dairy and I always imagined dad getting a JD 2520 or Oliver 1555 to make a quartet. Of course being a kid I never worried about where the money for that was going to come from.

rrlund · Mar 4, 2018

They both have a 354 Perkins yes,but the 2-105 is actually an 1855 back half. Has closed center hydraulics and hydraulic actuated brakes.

Dopp Creek · Mar 4, 2018

Larry,
Send it out west to hang with the cousins.

JD Seller · Mar 4, 2018

Would that be the same as a 1755 rear half??? I liked my 1655 so much I traded for a 1755 and hated it. It was dead headed and clumsy compared to the 1655. If it would have had more power it would not have been as bad but the 1655 would out work it.

rrlund · Mar 4, 2018

That's only the second one I've seen. I came across this one on CL a year or two ago.

730virgil · Mar 4, 2018

neighbor we helped make hay when in high school had a super 66 and a 770 .
we didn't miss many days helping someone make hay

rrlund · Mar 4, 2018

It would be pretty much the same as a 1755 ya. The 1655 still used the internal open center pump while the 1755 on up was a larger casting with the closed center pump on the side of the rear end.

Dave H (MI) · Mar 4, 2018

You are only 100 miles or so from Ian, maybe it is the same tractor? That would be something wouldn't it?

rrlund · Mar 4, 2018

If I remember right,this one was in Kentucky.

larry@stinescorner · Mar 4, 2018

Im pushing like button on that picture!!!////

Dave H (MI) · Mar 4, 2018

I think you would have been safe on the 66. How many rocks can you pick up sitting in one place spinning your wheels?

paul · Mar 4, 2018

Dad farmed with a Oliver 88, farmall H and 300. When I was able to follow along he got a Ford 960.

I'm running a Ford TW20, 7700, 5200, and 1720.

Still have the H, 300, uncles S77, and my first drive, the Ford 960. They get a lot lighter duty.

Like you say, hard to get the work done, don't know how dad did.

Paul

JD Seller · Mar 4, 2018

The only thing I liked on the Oliver 1755 was the hydraulics. They were faster then the 1655s. Plus the 1755 had float. My 1655 has the hydra-electric hydraulic SCVs on it. you have to open and close the ports to get float for single acting cylinders. When I still had a NH 488 haybine I would just take the lift arms off the 1655 in the summer. Running the haybine and square baler was nicer with them out of the way.

I have only owned to use the two Olivers 1655 and 1755. Neighbor had a 550 that we raked with a lot when we used to trade off square baling. The gear shifter on that was different.

Always looked hard at a 2-105 but just never decided to keep the ones I bought to sell. There where few Whites sold around here but the 2-105 sells well used. Great chore tractor.

Paul from MI · Mar 4, 2018

Dad farmed his whole life on 21 acres and a whole bunch of laying hens with an Allis B. All of my cousins and uncles had Farmall H's or Allis WC's as their big tractors. It took a lot of seat time to get anything done. I can still remember my uncle Tommy telling me when I was driving Grandpa's old H "Just throttle her back and shift down a gear, let her run easy, we got chores waiting in the barn". I have that old H and Dad's B, brings back a lot of memories.

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