One thing that I have learned about hours on tractors. Most of the crop only farmers near me, cropping 2-3,000 acres, actually put very few hours on their tractors nowadays. Many of these big tractors only pull a no till planter in the spring, and a grain cart at harvest. Self propelled sprayers , and zero cultivation, and no crops to bale, leave tractors on crop farms collecting few hours each year. Tractors on livestock farms on the other hand, totally different story. Forage cropping, and manure handling as well as feeding livestock can stack thousands of hours on tractors. During the time when Oliver tractors were being built, farms were not as big in the livestock side. And the crop farmers kept up a steady pace of rapid growth, with larger and larger tractors and equipment coming on to the market after 1974, the tractors branded with the Oliver name became too small for many cash crop farmers to keep in their fleet. My thinking is many of the used Oliver tractors that got traded in during the late 70�s and early 80�s were sold on to smaller farms were they wouldn�t see more than 2-300 hours per year. The people that were buying new tractors in the 80�s and 90�s wanted much higher hp tractors with 4wd, and very few Oliver tractors fit this bill.
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