Oliver and White Equipment Tour - Tillage Part 1

What good are tractors if they don't have something to do? That's what got me into collecting plows. In this video I go over some of the plow collection, focusing on the early plows and plowing competition.

[@Dan-qy1rg]

Some history with this video, nice to here. I'll try to take a look the links when I get the time. Thanks Chris, have a nice weekend!

[@wilmamcdermott3065]

Always love Pulling a good stubble plow doing the best jobi I could

[@7viewerlogic670]

Great video!

[@davidgood1441]

Up until mid 90s we used an oliver walking plow (no idea what model it was) rigged to a S77 to cover the edges of silage tarps, daddy said it got its last hardware in 1946 and was behind horses until 1951.

[@jar-dw7iu]

Currently the best video on youtube, the history, information, and storys on oliver equipment that you hold are truly priceless

[@ThatOliverGuyChris]

Thank you!

[@Jane-rq7sv]

Great video I am just now seeing😰. I know where there is a brand new Oliver 565 plow that has sat inside the whole time

[@johndavidstutts]

I pulled a 3 14 massey Harris with my s88 diesel in 4th back in the day. Dad said I was working it to hard. But it didn't act like it was even back there.

[@anderleof]

This channel is so much better than those others that are just commercials for the sponsors. There aren't many real, down to earth farming channels left.

[@ThatOliverGuyChris]

Thank you.

[@ThatOliverGuyChris]

I think most companies aren't interested in a guy that is farming with old equipment.

[@philipingram1667]

My Dad used an Oliver model 18 walking plow in the late 20s and early 30s with horses to plow the small family farm. He got that job as my grandfather was out of state working in the Depression. Excellent video - I now understand why you love the Olivers so much - thank you for sharing all the history and details.

[@alastairmccormick397]

Very interesting, thanks for showing us. Glad to hear that the tractor was rebuilt in time, phew! Ploughing championship held on 12/13 February 1958 in Tramore Co. Waterford Ireland ( very close to Waterford Crystal factory ). World ploughing championship was due in Ireland again this year but cancelled due to the virus We gathered up a few tools in Ireland since😅😆

[@breakstuffinc]

Thankyou for sharing your family history and heritage. Very cool stories!

[@SKC640]

Hey Chris idk if you would be interested or not but in my area a really good looking white combine came up for sale with low hours and a cheap price for 2 or 3 heads forsure a bean and corn header, and it's fully functional. If I remember right he's only asking 2500 give or take and I thought on one of your combineing videos you mentioned you wouldn't mind a white combine for an extra or just for fun one day. It's a little smaller machine I think it was a 725 but if you wanted to see the ad on it I would be glad to send it to you and even check it out because he also has a tractor for sale that I am going to be looking at.

[@ThatOliverGuyChris]

Where is it located?

[@SKC640]

@@ThatOliverGuyChris it's in pine county MN I know it's far however I have actually never seen one before let alone in perfect shape and I have no idea if they are rare or not so I just thought I would tell you!

[@ThatOliverGuyChris]

Thanks. That is a bit of a haul for a combine.

[@SKC640]

@@ThatOliverGuyChris it is for sure but like I said had no idea on the availability of them so figure j would tell you! It definitely is a clean. Machine almost looks restored but isn't and I almost wish I needed a combine because for my operation it would be the perfect size and seems to be a good price with the heads

[@bigun447]

Soft-center off-center moldboards. Raydex and speedex moldboards. I went to South Bend in 1976 to pick up an 8 bottom plow and 28' folding disk and while they were loading my trailer (which already had a 4-150 with duals on it) I simply just walked around the plant. Simply rode the elevator to whatever floor it was going to. Every color of the rainbow was being made there. I was fascinated by the rotary oven that was used to heat moldboards for stamping and the guys that took the completed bottom and polished them on the big finishing wheels. Drove the length of IN with all of that on our 5th wheel implement trailer pulled by a 1976 Ford 250 FWD pickup, 360 engine, and a gross weight of 38,000 lbs. Never got the automatic transmission out of 2nd gear. Picked the 4-150 up at Sharp's in Indy, hauled it to South bend so they would be able to load the implements under and around the tractor.

[@ThatOliverGuyChris]

Cool history, thanks for sharing!

[@bigun447]

OH, and I stopped at the remains of the old Studebaker plant where some guys were still hand-building Avanti cars long after Studebaker quit.

[@nellsonstout7001]

My cousin has a 1600 gas narrow front sold new by sharps. We’re only a few counties south

[@morrisklein6962]

How build the overa in Shelbyville Illinois

[@whathobogrohknows]

One of dad’s friends owns a snowmobile dealer and he has 2 artic cat 440s that have never been ridden and there still on the shelf. It’s cool when you get machines like that

[@williamwells7775]

In England hi cut ploughing was a form of ploughing that had high peaks for seeds to fall in so when harrowed in the seeds would come up in rows . Fascinating to watch with the drags that form the channels.

[@scruffy6151]

Nice collection and history.

[@ThatOliverGuyChris]

Thanks, Scruffy!

[@jeffgrier8488]

Thanks for the history lesson on the equipment, you are a wealth of knowledge.

[@ohioplowboyhawk6738]

Thanks Chris that was great Back in the day my grandfather was a plow champion here in Northwest Ohio with a Farmall H and 2-14

[@ThatOliverGuyChris]

Awesome!

[@Ixlthim74]

So cool and interesting you should open a museum. Please keep the videos coming.

[@dalewalker2315]

You were commenting about how the mold board was made, one of the things that made the Oliver mold board superior was the fact they were hand ground. Thanks for the video, I always enjoy them, Chris! Keep them coming.

[@ThatOliverGuyChris]

Thanks, Dale!

[@leightonfarms4962]

amazing collection and history. Thank you

[@ThatOliverGuyChris]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@ahillbillyredneck2375]

I've been anxiously awaiting the next part! I love your equipment/collection. Thank you so much for allowing us to see them too 😁

[@pinesedgefarm1155]

Thanks for an amazing Oliver history video.

[@frankdeegan8974]

For the corn stalks and weeds the cable on the coulter hanger worked great. The plow ring I remember those but did not ever see them in use.

[@marcussamson7640]

Great video have several oliver plows they always do a good job

[@chrisheinen9628]

Really like your video's. The History is amazing.

[@ThatOliverGuyChris]

Thank you!

[@edwinhopcraft5974]

Awesome history .

[@johndavidstutts]

When I worked for case ih in the 90s. I went to the Scott farm in northern Missouri. The owners dad , Dale was his name if I remember correctly, was also a competitive plowman. He showed me several pics of him overseas at competitions.

[@GosselinFarmsEdGosselin]

Freaking AWESOME Chris!!! Definitely don't find unused equipment that old either.

[@ThatOliverGuyChris]

Thanks, Ed!

[@GosselinFarmsEdGosselin]

@@ThatOliverGuyChris thank you for sharing and the stories!!

[@stephenfonder7409]

Wow Chris, thanks so much for this great video. We've plowed here for alot of years and I don't even know all there is to know about plowing like you do. I was too young when my Dad passed to learn any tricks from him. Paul learn how to properly bury the last dead furrows from our Dad's cousin and that sure is handy. I also though the story about the Pope was pretty funny. I 'm Catholic and I didn't even know that. I would probably shake his hand too I guess lol!

[@ThatOliverGuyChris]

I'm glad you enjoyed it. I wish my dad had taken more time to show me how to plow. When there was plowing to be done, he always did it. I'd ride along and he'd answer my questions, but he never let me take the wheel. Too much pride iis my guess. He did have most of the farmers stopping by the dealership to rib him. Lol

[@mischef18]

Cheers for posting bro I enjoyed this video. Y'all stay safe

[@mathewmerkl576]

I have videos from ford archived that cover the 1957 irish world ploughing championship and there is a scene with the oliver 550 in the back round i will go back and check to make sure but its really cool to hear the stories from different views thanks for sharing

[@ThatOliverGuyChris]

That would be awesome!

[@petepeeff5807]

Not much ploughing done in Kentucky in my lifetime except for tobacco ground. That's mostly gone too. I know it's heresy but I used a 5-16 hydraulic rest JD behind my 1950 . It was over kill as most tobacco patches were only a couple acres back then.😁 Good times though.

[@isaacwegner6714]

Do you have any two row pipe cultivators that you are willing to sell

[@ThatOliverGuyChris]

Sorry, I don't.

[@tomperley8399]

Another great video!! That model 40 was pretty interesting, what was the purpose of the arm behind the guide wheel? Also, the dual pin lock on your dads plow looks identical to the one used on the JD model M3b 2-way single bottom plow that I have. (just mentioning in case you ever needed to find parts) Thanks for documenting all of this history!

[@ThatOliverGuyChris]

That's a jointer. It would kick the residue over to get buried better. If any residue ended up on top, it's almost always from the land side of the plow.

[@Murphyslawfarm]

G'day Chris very cool video mate.

[@ThatOliverGuyChris]

Hello Murphy! Thanks!

[@hughperkins707]

We had a Cockshutt 4-14 A and an Oliver 4-16 with radex shares. The Cockshutt was a better plow in sod but both were great in stubble.

[@Adam_Poirier]

Iv been waiting for this 😀

[@gordonjohnbook3463]

In the early 70's I bought a 6 bottom Ford landside plow, would you know if it was made buy Oliver?

[@ThatOliverGuyChris]

Chances are it was. Do you recall the model number?

[@Adam_Poirier]

That was really cool Chris. All the time I’ve been watching your videos I never really put it together that the dealership was right on your farm?

[@ThatOliverGuyChris]

Yes, it's all on the same original property my great grand parents bought over 100 years ago.

[@ghenry85]

Nice history lesson. I spend one year in the local plowing club when I was that age. The setup they had us use was a Fordson Dexta(with broken governor, still pulled like snot!), with a two furrow Kverneland 2 furrow(m or mz competition special). They also had a Ford 3000 and an Oliver 55 also with Kverneland 2 furrow plows. I still remember how to do a proper strike out with a two furrow. Curious, I tried the same strike out system with our Kverneland tripbeam 3 furrow. Actually worked not bad. Before my time dad and grandpa plowed with Ferguson tractors and a Ford(presumably a 2 furrow Dearborn). What would be the likely hood of that plow being built by Oliver?

[@ThatOliverGuyChris]

Oliver did build plows for Ford back then, so there's a good chance of it being Oliver built. JD Oliver and Henry Ford were good friends, but at some point had a personal falling out that carried over into their business dealings. The Oliver 7A plow was designed and built to work with Ford tractors, but was still sold as an Oliver.

[@paulpochan9631]

THANKS......Nice.....!!!

[@bigfoot-wo3qy]

Very nice!

[@ThatOliverGuyChris]

Thanks!

[@bigfoot-wo3qy]

I think I love the story behind things sometimes more than the machine. The story makes the machine personal. I’m sure if someone looked at your dads super 88 that didn’t know you they would see a nice super 88 d and not much more. The story can make the most novel item priceless. I like the stories behind the items.

[@ThatOliverGuyChris]

Someone asked me once what that Super 88 was worth. I told them at that time $4k would be a fair price, but to me it is priceless.

[@anderleof]

Never heard of a plowing competition, what were the contestants judged on?

[@ThatOliverGuyChris]

Straightness, even depth, residue left on top, eveness of the headlands, the starting furrow(back furrow) and the finishing furrow (dead furrow). There are 2 pages of rules in the program that I have pictured in the video. The contestants had a set amount of time to complete their plot, so they could go slow if they needed, but if they failed to finish in time, the lost a lot of points.

[@ollie-lk5dx]

Great Info!

[@fastsetinthewest]

Thanks. Eaglegards...

[@PHILDRU911]

From a guy who cut his teeth on JD 3 and 4 bottom plows in the 50s n 60s in S. Central MI.

[@eicher1232]

Very interesting, thank you very much for this video. :-)

[@timirish4892]

You look like you're dad.

[@dirtthunder1638]

This is so cool....

[@juststuffwithwolfe4482]

Is that you man cave?

[@ThatOliverGuyChris]

You could say that. It's the parts counter area from our dealership that I've made into my display area/man cave.

[@juststuffwithwolfe4482]

That Oliver Guy - Chris Losey coool

[@leightonfarms4962]

1st

[@ThatOliverGuyChris]

Sweet!

[@garybridger6707]

Till 73 my dad used a AC wd pulling a Oliver trailer plow, he had a side hill hitch on the tractor. Who built them?

[@ThatOliverGuyChris]

The sidehill hitch? Oliver had them available for most all of their semi mount plows. They did offer a sidehill hitch attachment to put on tractors like the Super 88, 770, and so on, to use with pull type plows. If yours was on the WD drawbar, I would think it was made by Allis, but that is only a guess on my part.