Shep VA 1755 Cummins auction web site

Guess it keeps me out of trouble huh??

Looks like a nice 1755 tractor

Thanks Chad!!

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Hey, I was down your way last weekend. Buddy of mine was at the KY fairgrounds in Louisville and his diesel truck broke down, right in front of Freedom Hall. Something in the rack and pinion steering went bad and he couldnt steer it. So he hitched a ride home with another guy and called me to come rescue the truck last Saturday night. So we drove all night and went down and picked up the truck and brought it home, took me 7 hours down and 8 to get back and traveled just under 1000 miles. Didnt think that was bad for that big powerstroke, corse we didnt stop much.

I was thinking that darn 1955 tractor with no engine was probably only an hour from where I was, and I had a full trailer going home. Darn the luck....

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I have a non Oliver question based on your mention of the Powerstroke engine in your post . I have a 1999 Ford F 350 diesel which I use a lot for towing , mainly cattle trailers , hay and liquid fertilizer . A friend just added one of those power chips or modules to his F 250 diesel to up the horsepower . I have been looking at one and maybe increasing the size (diameter) of the exhaust system or exhaust pipes on my F 350 . Do you have any experience with these modifications and what are your thoughts (or anyone else's )on this ?

My truck is a 2000 ford F-350 ex-cab duelly 6 speed. It is pretty much stock, I havent had it but a few months and am still drooling over what all I would like to do to it as I get some money.

This trip was a good test for it, I had a 24 foot flatbed gooseneck hooked to it with my friends 1994 ford f-250 ex-cab diesel on it. So the goose weighed about 5K and the truck was another 7K maybe, so I had about 12K behind me and I only came out of 6th gear a few times through WVA, and never out of 5th. Corse I was on the right side of Sandstone mountain :-)

Good Luck with your truck. Try the forums over at www.dieselstop.com, there are some real good truck guys over there that have helped me.

Sorry bout that

Too bad you didn't have more time. I'd met ya at the Shelbyville exit for a cup a coffee.

I never did hear anything about that tractor. I emailed the guy twice and he never responded, guess he either sold it or didnt like me.

What is the exit number at Shelbyville?? We stopped and took fuel about marker 30 something I think at a flying J truckstop east of Louisville.

BTW. Simpsonville is the home of Purnell's "OLD FOLKS" Country Sausage. "It's Gooooo ood!"
Don't know if you have it there or not.

Yeah we got that OLD FOLKS sausage here too, it is goooooddd stuff, you are right. Didnt realise we were right where it was made.

Are you plannin on going to the HPOCA winter convention in Lancaster PA?? I think I am gonna try to go and take a tractor, didnt know if you were going or not. Its about 4 hours from me, and you would pass right by our farm on the way up. Corse if it snows up to my belly I wont be goin but I thought I would try.

I figured you would be driving something Cummins powered. ";^)

I actually have two Ford diesels. I had a head on wreck with my 1991 ford IDI diesel about two months ago and messed it up pretty bad. It will still run for a farm truck but I dont trust it anymore for over the road stuff. Thats why I ended up getting the F-350 about a month ago. Dad also had a 1995 powerstroke F-350 we use around the farm, so we have three big diesels and we use them hard all the time.

Now if Ford ever put a Cummins in a pickup I would be amoung the first to own one that is for sure. I even got a book from a guy out west that wrote a book and sells adaptors to put the Cummins engine in a Ford, but I havent got that brave yet. Figured it would kill the resale on the truck if I ever sold it.

I thought about taking my 1850 or my 1655 up to PA for the convention. I dont think I can get them both on the trailer togeather, so I will have to decide which one to take. Thought I would stir up things by taking a Cummins powered Oliver to the show.... May depend on which one I put the snow plow on this year as to which one goes though.... Corse it will all depend on the weather, I am not too fond of pulling trailers in the snow.

Talk at ya later, I think I am leaving work early and get started on my turkey day break.....

Y'all have a good Thanksgiving, and eat lots of turkey, us poor turkey farmers need it..... ..