Re: Tips needed on buying older tractor for brush

Posted by TheRealRon on September 21, 2004 at 11:45:13 from (69.179.22.36):

In Reply to: Re: Tips needed on buying older tractor for brush posted by Indydirtfarmer on September 21, 2004 at 11:11:26:

John,

You are way off base. I'm NOT going to get into a Oliver vs. JD thing with you or anyone else. That would be worse than religion and politics!

But I'll say these two things...

1) Even the most ardent JD fans I know will tell you that Oliver was by far the better tractor. Oliver the company made a lot of bad decisions otherwise we might be having an entirely different discussion.

2) A neighbor went to buy a replacement alternator from the JD dealer for his 5-6 year old JD tractor. He was told the price was $450! No one in their right mind would pay $450 for an alternator so he sold the tractor and bought an Oliver. That's how I learned ther story. In any event, Oliver was smart enough to use all electrical components made by Ford (Holley) and/or GM (Delco) on all their models. So an alternator for any Oliver tractor is $60 at NAPA. Same deal with starters, distributors, etc. All the parts you would expect to replace on an old tractor are cheap where Olivers are concerned. Better yet, they were basically bulletproof. This is why most of the farms here are still using 40 year old Olivers daily. There are almost no 40 year old JDs working on farms here. Even better, should you need any Oliver part, any AGCO dealer sells them. Mine is just minutes from house but there are AGCO dealers that sell the complete line over the 'Net.

If you're happy with your JD, that's great! It would be sad if we owned tractors we didn't enjoy!

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