Notjustair and rrlund

found another of the 88 for you 88 guys,,,and some other Olivers from the hood too!

Hey Larry, just wondering(since talking Oliver) you see this Ollie I made for a friend, of mine, wedding....I posted it when your computer was on the fritz
Gift for friend.

That is really a nice gift! I didnt see it,,thanks for posting that..A gift that is made ahead like that really is very thoughtful.

Figured since I posted it on a Sun...then Mon you came back to Talerville, by then it was buried under that days new posts......

Only took a couple months to actually cut and paint....a few hours every night. The lay out to get proportions right was the hard part. Like most projects it isn't worth much till some blood is spilt, I gashed my thumb a couple times when working on it pps:

Larry, Oliver's are my favorite too! It isn't my last name but I grew up with them! We started with Deere's 1010,B,G,50 and progressed to the 1555 then a Super88,1950T,770,1650 then a White 2-70 and finally the White American 60. Tried to find the Super 88 a few years ago but no telling where it is now. I had rebuilt it with larger sleeves and pistons that a machine shop had to cut down.

found another,this pic was in my camera,,from this fall

Nice picture is it me or the way I'm looking at it but it seems the last bottom is running a hair deeper.

Larry, I still remember my dad and I standing in the road the 88 was on the truck going up the road and my dad goes I shouldn't of traded it in. That was 1987 and we had traded it on the 1650 with a loader.

the grandfather bought all these tractors,he is long gone,,the grandson is in the pictures farming with them.Before he was born,his grandfather had a cletraC.I was 12 and remember it well,helped him paint it with a brush and rustoleum one weekend.He sold the cletrac before his grandson was born.His grandson is trying to track it down,but no luck so far.

You forgot this one.

yes,,thanks,,that was near Kutztown PA,a menonite farmer,,the motor brought up a lot of replies if I remember correctly?

I had quit looking for my dad's tractor and just happened to see it while riding back from a job with my boss. A lot of those Cletrac's survived so may still be out there.

What engine is in that thing??

Appears to be Deutz.

Hey--That picture of the 88 and the IH grinder-mixer brings back bad memories. Years ago I had hogs and ground a lot of feed with a 88 gas and a 950 IH grinder-mixer. I was working at a factory in town and it took my town paycheck to pay the feed bill-we got out of hogs when they got down to $28.50, couldn't take the prosperity anymore---Tee

Love it. As far as I am concerned there is no better tractor for grinding feed than an old tricycle machine. I use my Farmall M. That's all it does so I never have to hook up the grinder. You never sheer pins because the pto can be feathered easy. I think bearings and things in the grinder last much longer because the smaller tractor "gives" with the load instead of forcing the grinder through it. I can get that grinder backed into any little spot with that zero turn tractor (mine has power steering). The only time it isn't quite enough tractor is when I throw in an alfalfa bale and the flakes are thick - it makes her bark pretty good. Of course, if I had double the horses on it I would jam it full and then be hard on the grinder so I guess it's a good thing.

I'd like to get a new grinder with scales but I have an alternator on the old M so I guess it would still work. I'm not sure what the live pumps on the old Farmall are rated but I'm doubting it could power a hydraulic unloading auger. That's ok - my grinder is in fine shape.

I can honestly say I haven't seen an Oliver in these parts since I was a little boy and that was only one tractor. I don't know of any dealer that sold them anywhere near us. Even now I can't say that I have ever seen one at the big tractor show held each fall in town. It's kind of odd. I do think the combines are neat looking old machines and would like to have one, but again, I've never seen one in person. Not many farmers can say that I bet.

An Oliver with a Duetz engine. Now I've seen everything. Lol!