which was the most popular ?

swindave · Jan 17, 2021

of the 66/super66 77/super77 88/super 88
which models sold the most? row crop? standard?
and was diesel 88/super 88 very popular?

it seems like their is a lot of these tractors made,
im just curious

thanks for your help

super99 · Jan 17, 2021

I personally prefer the Super 88, but I think I read that the 77 was the best seller.

crooked rows · Jan 17, 2021

I do know that the 66 - super66 diesels where pretty rare in my neck of the woods....that would be central Michigan

JohnRowehl · Jan 18, 2021

Some very good questions. I wish I knew the answers. I would think that the build card records that Floyd Co. Museum has could be helpful in determining the number that were out there if someone had the time and money to research it. But they only have those beginning with the Super series.

In the part of the country where I grew up, there were no standards, only row crop models. I didn't even know that standard models existed until I was in my 40's and saw one in a collector's barn.

I loved our diesel 88. Not as powerful as our gas 88 but it kept going....and going..... and going.....Talked to the current owner about two years ago and he was still using it for his farming operation.

Our 77s were good reliable tractors too.

Photo is from the early 1970s.

JohnRowehl · Jan 19, 2021

Still not much help answering your questions but according to A Guide to Hart-Parr, Oliver and White Farm Tractors by Larry Gay, by 1956 Oliver was advertising that it was making 43 percent of all the diesel tractors on wheels.

Assuming that is correct, then for a relatively small company to have that large of a percentage of all diesel tractors, that would mean to me that the diesel engines were in a vast majority of the ones they themselves sold.

super99 · Jan 20, 2021

Personal opinion and speculation. Times attitudes were different when those were new, Lots of people still had a few horses around for light work, farms were smaller. By looking at other brand tractors number I find that IH made more H tractors than M tractors, John Deere made more B tractors than A tractors. So that mind set leads me to believe that more 77's were made than the others. Just my never to be humble opinion. Chris

JohnRowehl · Jan 28, 2021

(quoted from post at 18:38:05 01/17/21) of the 66/super66 77/super77 88/super 88
which models sold the most? row crop? standard?
and was diesel 88/super 88 very popular?

I happened to run across this on a webpage titled The Tractor Guys. Source of the numbers is not stated. Most say estimates. Id have to question the numbers for the 77 Standard & Super 77 when you see them in context with the others.

They have more numbers for other models and is incomplete. So for what its worth.........

66 Row Crop Total 4,083,563
66 Standard. Total 4,034,475

Super 66 1958 only. 50,773

77 Row Crop. Total 4,184,469
77 Standard. Total 5,050

Super 77. Total built 50,705

JohnRowehl · Jan 29, 2021

Please disregard my previous post.
I just realized how completely worthless those numbers are.
My apologies.

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