Slick 430 Oliver Sells For $1200

1206SWMO

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Check out this nice 430 Oliver combine that recently sold for $1200 on a sale in central Kansas..This combine was advertised on the Wichita Craigslist several years ago...

Also pictured is a nice 55 Massey that the scrappers got at this sale for $1400...Another 55 sold for $1285...These pictures and prices courtesy of Two Fat Brothers Salvage in Kansas whom were runner-up bidders on the 55's....I wasnt allowed to link to their site...I was to their place in March and they are nice guys..
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How can the scrappers buy that 55 and expect to make money? If my math is right that's nearly $400 a ton they paid?
 
(quoted from post at 07:08:50 04/04/14) How can the scrappers buy that 55 and expect to make money? If my math is right that's nearly $400 a ton they paid?
"Two Fat Brothers" is into tractor resale and parts
 
They cant.But they get into bidding wars.....Plus,some of them have 'quotas',contracts that must be satisfyed every month.I see em here paying top dollar for good stuff just to meet quota.
 
Do you have further info on their quota? Is that set by some government agency, or by a "China" buyer they deal with, or (fill in the blank)??
 
I think its by their China buyer/broker.Im not sure.I dont spend much time 'visiting' with them.
 
Looks like a nice machine. I had a 525 at one time, but don't really know Olivers. How would this one compare, age and size-wise, to a 525?
 
I saw this auction and considered going to it. However my budget wouldn't allow two sales so I went to one a week later and bought a Minneapolis Moline M5 with a loader. I keep hearing these fantastic prices for scrap iron but no one wants to tell me where they are getting it.
 
Can anybody clue me in one why they hung the grain tank off the side? They did that later on too with the 5542. Looks to me like the 545 and the 5542 are the same combine just with different grain tanks.
 
(quoted from post at 10:52:40 04/04/14) Looks like a nice machine. I had a 525 at one time, but don't really know Olivers. How would this one compare, age and size-wise, to a 525?

The 430 is the same size as the 535 and later 7300, 34-in. cylinder I believe. The 430's came out in 1963 as the little brother to the 431 that was introduced a year earlier. The Minneapolis version of the 430 was the 3490. The 500 series came out (I think) in about 1965 or 66 with the larger grain tanks centered over the separator body. The 525 had about a 28 inch cylinder.
 
(quoted from post at 16:40:49 04/04/14) Can anybody clue me in one why they hung the grain tank off the side? They did that later on too with the 5542. Looks to me like the 545 and the 5542 are the same combine just with different grain tanks.

The side-mounted grain tank was a holdover from all the previous Cockshutt models. Both Oliver and Minneapolis combines were Cockshutt designed and built in Brantford, Ont. after the amalgamation of the three companies.

The 545 was the same machine as the 431 but with the larger top mount tank. The 5542 was a direct descendant of the 431 and 542 Cockshutts and Olivers. In the MM line the 431 style combine was called the 4290/4292 and I think 4293 as the years progressed. White kept the 431 style machine until the last 5542's came out in about 1985 - one of their most successful models.
 
We bought a 5542 new in 1970 I really liked the combine except for the fact that it only had a blower, no AC (then next year we put on a swamp cooler). Also the fact that the engine set right behind the cab which made it all the hotter to run. But it was an excellent mechanical machine. No dealers much around here for Olivier so I bought a G Gleaner in 1979 and sold the 5542 Olivier to a man in Victoria, Kansas.
 
That explains a lot then. The 545 was the odd ball in the lineup with the top mounted tank. I had one neighbor with 5542 and another with the MM version. I wasn't aware the 5542 was made into the 80s. I know they made the 535 for along time but it was called the 7300 under White.
 
I bid the I oliver up to 800 and my wife was about to kill me she said I could go to 250 and the she heard it fire up and I saw she liked how it purred so took that as permission to buy here a nice present with a flathead Chrysler. the 55 did not run it was in the middle of an unfinished overhaul I think
 

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