Here is a photo from the way-back machine. Time is about 1954 and near Piqua, Ohio. My dad, on the 88, was a medium sized (for that time) farmer and had bought the whole Oliver tractor line in about 1950 .. a 66, a 77 and an 88. My siblings and cousins are in the photo. I remember that baler as being one huge, heavy machine. Using baling wire, I remember that the 'knotters' were pretty finicky. My dad sold pretty much all of his farm equipment and two of three farms in 1959. He then built a couple of caged layer chicken houses which were reasonably profitable then (but not so much on a small scale now) which set him up nicely for his retirement.
