Oliver 33 Project

Hey guys, just wanted to show you my new combine. It's going to take a bit of work to get her home including tree surgery, finding back wheels, and pulling her back up on top of the ground. It looks like the header is in the up position already, so my hope is once i get the wheels back up on the ground she'll roll. I will have to wait till the water seeps down some and the mud goes away, i figure in the mean time, i'll round up old plywood, planks n blocks. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated Thanks.

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The early Olivers all had Continentals...This is the 25-33-35-40 models..My 40 Oliver has a 244 Continental..

My neighbor down the road hauled a 33 Oliver in from Kansas nearly 50 years ago....The last I knew its still
there in very sad shape..I have a picture somewhere..
 
The one tire still has air in it, the other one is collapsed and has a hole in it, so far, my thinking is, get the back wheels on it, get the one tire fixed, or replaced, and use a dolly n tow it backwards. I'm about a mile n a half away.
 
I have a nice pair of tires and wheels for this combine. I think there is still a brand new clean grain elevator in the barn. My nephew may have a rear axel in the junk.
 
That's what I did. My drive tires held air. Steering tires were shot.
I used a tilt bed car trailer and an electric winch. I removed the head
since I had 10 miles to go and didn't want to press my luck on the drive
tires staying up. I used my loader tractor to load the head.
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Wow! Thanks man, that is a great idea! I'd be a bit intimidated to pull the header, i've only got a mile n a half on a dirt road, but i don't know if it will stay up or not. I was wondering if i could get away with a car dolly. Once i get her up out of the holes it's in and up on the ground, i'll have a better idea of what's going on. Thanks again, i appreciate it.
 
Wow! I wonder what it would take to get those to Eastern Washington? I will probably be interested once i get her home. The
elevators look ok except for the usual rot at the bottom of the chute, and the clean outs. It might be another month before the
water and mud go away enough for me to even get in there and start jacking it up out of the ground. I was hoping to start tree
surgery next week and working on the tire situation. One of the drivers is still holding air, the other has a hole, but i was
going to try a boot and a tube, just to get it home. I'll post another pic with the same title when i get a little further
along... thank you, i appreciate your reply.
 
For less than two miles I wouldn't bother with a dolly. Go under the steer axle with a bucket and just push it home with the loader tractor. You can "herd" it a mile and a half!
 
Ya know, that might be the ticket, as long as i can see where i'm going. lol I do have to cross a highway, but that's not that big of deal in the mornings. Thanks!
 
Yes,it had a 226 Continental...I have a 1945 model 101 Massey Harris Senior tractor with that engine..It runs great..
 
I tried to move the fan a little, but couldn't. I suspect it is, it's been sitting there for 36 years. Once i get it home i was
going to start taking things apart and free it up. My last project took most of a year to get going, and this is quite a bit
bigger. But everything is there so,,,,, :) Where it is right now is basically a marsh for the next few weeks at least.
 

I see I'd go back over there pull the spark plugs out and pour liquid WD 40 in all the cylinders and see if maybe it will be freed up by the time u get it.
 
Thanks, i will do that. I was going to see if i can go over there this weekend and cut the trees out, put a jack under it, and
put some plastic pallets, and plywood under the wheels, i have 2 wheels to put on the back, and while i'm doing that, it would be
a good time to do what you are saying because it will still be a couple weeks before i dare try driving anything up close to it.
Thank you.
 
Well that is impressive. I thought I had pulled some wild loads but if I even suggested that I haul something like that down the road my wife and daughters would have me institutionalized. I can see how it would work, but TEN MILES? Truly...you got guts.
 
I hauled one of my 55s 22 miles that way. Works pretty good actually. I've thought about making a special dolly or buying one to haul combines around in my area. What keeps me from displaying my combines at the local museum and shows is they are just an incredible PITA to haul. Only two of my combines will fit on a gooseneck trailer and loading the combine onto the trailer when half of the tire is sticking out beyond the edge of the trailer makes for a hairy process sometimes. The dolly method in my opinion is easier and safer to load/haul if you aren't going too far.
 

I think that's what keeps most people from not collecting combines or at least not many of them at shows is because there so hard to haul. To tall and too wide. And most people don't have a lo-boy
 
Those P&J tilt deck trailers are the berrys aint they? Dont know how I ever got along without mine. I added a pump to make mine power tilt,,,, Oh like the combine too, lol
 
True, but Straw Boss below seems to have a pretty good method. In my case i would be scared to pull the header, but i may have to
if i can't get it to stay up. No doubt the hydraulics are shot too. So many unknowns right now. I hope to get some of them known
this weekend. I sure appreciate yours, and everyone else's comments, i'm sure i'll have more questions soon.
Thanks again!
 
If memory serves, those 33's had a big spring or two to assist in lifting the header. I seem to remember either tightening the spring or using a come-a-long on the linkage to raise the head. My uncle had one like that, and we sold it a couple of years ago.
 
Very true....They are hard to haul...I hauled my 40 Oliver home with the 12 ft header on...It was 80 miles away
and I took the back roads with no problems.....It was so wide that I had to plank it on...
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Heres a 33 Oliver sitting north of WaKeeney,KS in 2007......This ones probably gone by now...There were 5-6 combines at that farm..There was a bunch of old Oliver combines in that area so there must have been a good Oliver dealer..
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Heres a 33 Oliver that sold in 2008 at Bridgeport,NE...It was part of the huge Phillips collection with 3000 tractors and 100 combines..
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I have to agree with jzdieseltech94 on this. Moving combines is not easy for most people. I hauled farm equipment for many years and got used to it. This is a picture of the MM 4296 loaded on my gooseneck trailer. If you look close you can see the pipe extension racks I built to give more area under the tires. It was just at 14 ft. tall with a 15 ft. header. I did lay 2 inch PVC pipe across the grain bin to lift low hanging power lines as a precaution.

I hauled a lot of 18 ft. wide combines for the dealership I worked at. I hauled the Gleaner Super 77 150 miles through holiday traffic the day before Thanksgiving. You get used to it ... that or you quit.

To bad more combines aren't at local shows. Mine always seem to draw a crowd.
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That's good to know I could haul my 525 on a goose neck. That's a good idea with the pipe I'm gona keep that one in mind. What's the white box on top of the cab?
 
The white box on top of the combine cab is
the air conditioning unit. This combine has
a lot of extras. C&A, Hydro drive, tilt &
telescope steering wheel, hyd. variable
speed reel drive, spring assist on the
unloading auger.
 

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