Super 88

Donald Lehman · Dec 28, 2016

My son got the injector pump back for the S-88 yesterday. That's the final part for the motor. He's waiting for the transmission cover yet and he's putting together a workable hydraulic system. Won't be long now and the old warhorse will be up and running. It was right around 25 years the old girl was out of action. Got about $4800 in the parts for the motor, plus 4 tires and rims, radiator core, tranny cover. So far all of the hydraulic system parts are from old units we have laying around. Oh yeah. Gasket set and various seals, etc. Plus labor, of course.

Everybody is getting kinda excited to hear the old girl fired up.

centash · Dec 28, 2016

Yeah, but yah gotta figure in the fun factor.....cancels out a lot of those $. Ben

Donald Lehman · Dec 28, 2016

Sure does.

rrlund · Dec 28, 2016

Can't figure time an labor. We're farmers. This is what we spend our time laboring at.

paul · Dec 28, 2016

Dads main beast was an Oliver 88 gas.

The bottom of the muffler would glow red at night pulling the 3 bottom Oliver trip plow.

Can't believe he got stuff done with that combination, or could afford to fuel it, but gas was under 30 cents a gallon. And he was planting beans in June a lot of the time so not sure he did keep up......

I've only expanded the farm 1/3 bigger, and I'm keeping my eye open for a good 170-220 hp tractor to keep up with the work, from my current 145hp main tractor. How times change. He did well to harvest 10,000 bu of grain a year, I'm harvesting close to 40,000 bu with only 1/3 more land. He had a 2 row mounted corn picker and a 2 row pull type Case combine; I just got a Gleaner L3 20 foot head and 6 row corn head to keep up with the work.

You brought back some memories......

Paul

pickup22 · Dec 28, 2016

RRLund, no finer words ever spoken

notjustair · Dec 28, 2016

And having an extra "little" tractor to pull a seed wagon or grind feed. Those tractors that used to be big ones are the perfect size for odd jobs in my opinion. I use an old Farmall M to grind feed. It used to be my chore tractor when I was scraping by. Ok, I'm still scraping by, I'm just scraping a little more.

kruser · Dec 28, 2016

THANKS Donald - Least I don't feel so bad now!
Put around $5200 into a Super 88 diesel for rebuild and clutch this summer.
Dang tractor only usually gets run about 285' to 300' during the summer!

Super 88

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