Where is everyone #5

Not sending shade on anyone's tractor but: A 3 bottom 14" gave a Farmall M all it wanted in 2nd gear. 3rd in some ground, but struggled.
Now the only Oliver's I've seen were old gas burners (from the 45/52 era) sitting around IH and JD or Case places as trades..
So, I was shocked to see that tractor in front of a line of moldboards into infinity it looks like. Oliver came WAY up in later years or its a joke.

 

Lots of the first gen EV1 SCR control cards for forklifts were repairable. Or were up until Radio Shack was completely shut down.
If the component on the card was smoked enough and in a way you could still read the value, get one from the Shack and carefully solder it in.

 

Talk about blast from the past. I used to love checking out all the cool stuff there back in the day.

 

We opened our "Independent" shop in 9 /1979. Clark had built it's electric truck plant in Georgetown, KY and SCR controlled electric trucks were coming on. Stuff before that down here was the old "carbon pile" setups. All 3 of us had quit Clark, so relations were strained.
Clark could have put John Deere to shame extolling the need for dealer trained mechanics to do the work.
Add to that, the ole boy who rammed a screwdriver into a contact point to see it it had any "far" .
We would go out to work on one that the in house maintenance man had went into, and the
Clark hand had given up on diagnosing anything from the remains.

Tony; the partner who had been to Clark/Battle Creek plant when elec trucks came out, would set down his tool pouch he carried and tell them.
Folks, I can't fix it, I have got to put it back together so we can see the problem. At least 6 Well, it was the ...But... I couldn't get it to...So...
Or, you can get someone else to come fix it. Oh no sir, you be the man.. And Toney would proceed to reassemble the mess they had scattered, and present them with 2 or 3 pieces they ? had damaged in their process. Took more time to reassemble than to find the problem afterwards.
But it was written in stone at that plant. Elec truck stops/problem..... Pull the key and bring it to the office, Someone will be called.

Impressive those days: 1 RO for X hour labor reassembling truck, and a separate one with say 2 hours and a part and a fuse they had blown.

 

Ole Brigham said streets have to be wide enough to turn a horse and wagon around.

 

6 bottoms on that plow. That tractor does ok on the flat ground, tractor is only about 115 HP. That’s a little much plow in the hills for that tractor.

 

Most of them wives are two ax handles wide.
No room for your sorry ###.
Dogs are better company ........

 

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They run around in Chrysler crew vans.
The company's they owned were run by all their kids and clan members.
Paid cash for everything
Very nice people to deal with.

 

Oliver had some good ideas in later years. Oliver does good in front of a sled for a reason, they built them with a 60 / 40 weight ratio, 60% of the weight being on the rear which helped with traction.

I’m a big J.I Case man myself, ever get a chance I’ll get rid of the MF 150 and replace it with a 530 Case with power steering. And if the Oliver leaves I’d like to have a 830 or 930 to replace it, comfort king of course.. And the little 8N will probably leave too if I see something I like in the 530 line, 530 with p/s and triple range be a good setup far as I’m concerned…..