Floyd County Museum # 2

J.Wondergem

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Rockford, Mi.
From the Oliver Plant archives at the Floyd County Museum, An Oliver 66 RC adjustable wide front tractor with a cultivator in a field on the NE side the plant. Taken by the Plant photographer Carl Rabe in May, 1953.

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(quoted from post at 18:24:55 03/23/17) From the Oliver Plant archives at the Floyd County Museum, An Oliver 66 RC adjustable wide front tractor with a cultivator in a field on the NE side the plant. Taken by the Plant photographer Carl Rabe in May, 1953.

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Nice! I'm saving that one..Thanks!
 
How many wide front 66s have you ever actually seen? Wide front tractors just weren't a common sight around here back then. I remember Arnold Petersen traded his 8N Ford in on a wide front Super 77,but that was one of the very few sold in this neighborhood.
 
There was a wide front 66 diesel in our area. I knew the original owner but lost track of it until it came up on an auction a couple of years ago....unfortunately the second owner had tore it apart and left it set for years and was in sad shape....
 
I have only seen one in person. It is in my back yard now. I have not ran the numbers though. It's pretty rough.
 
Adjustable front tractors were common here in the High Plains of Nebraska.   I have a 66, Super 66 & 2 660s all with adjustable fronts.

Looking at the background, in the photo it appears like they had a lot full of "plant stock" tractors.
 
Not many that I have seen other than at our farm. We have 4 66's of which 2 are WF tractors, and a 660 WF. We have a S66 but it's a NF, and had a single front 660. All were originally Michigan tractors. We like our WF tractors on this farm
 
I'm thinking the one that Claude Barnes bought new was a wide front after thinking about it. I very seldom saw that tractor sitting outside. He had pretty much quit farming by the time I started driving. I tried to buy it after his widow died at the age of 104,but their offspring said they didn't want to sell it. I don't know if it's still around or not. If somebody did manage to buy it,they got a one of a kind original tractor. He was getting up in years when he bought it,then only farmed a 60 acre farm with it.
 
The narrow front was popular in this area
because of the front mounted equipment
planters,pickers,cultivators and loaders. My
uncle's had a 66 wide front with a
cultivator and compared to a john deere it
was a real pain to put on .
 

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