Oliver Tractor Corn Harvesting From 50 Years Ago

In this video viewers spend time in the field with Oliver tractors picking corn and working on fall tillage the way they would have 50 years ago. Watch for a Oliver 1850 LP tractor with an 83-NR corn picker, an Oliver 1655 tractor with a 74-H mounted corn picker, an Oliver 1650 tractor with a 252 disk and an Oliver 1650 tractor with a 546 plow.
The video shows classic corn picking and fall tillage as well as showing the transition from corn pickers to combines like the Oliver 7800 and WFE 8600 Harvest Boss combine in the1970's.
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[@timnichols9015]

Dad had a John Deere 3010 and 227 picker. Still have the 3010, my boy restored it 4 years ago for FFA project. It still runs an auger in the fall to earn its keep. Thanks BTP!

[@Johndeere-lf9pg]

Always enjoy those old machines. Thanks for the information on them to.

[@Juscz]

Amazing. I did not know that Oliver made combines, let alone self-propelled, enclosed cab versions thereof. Thanks for sharing!

[@westrotter7847]

My Dad used a Oliver 80 Standard and a 3 bottom Minneapolis Moline plow on his farm. The 80 was a heavy ole tractor with a four cylinder Waukesha engine that would really lug like a bull. The best tractor we ever had. Good memories.

[@crslyrn]

Looks like they had several Olivers there, everything from nicely restored to fresh off the farm. Always neat to see the guys that put together & display the tractor with the same brand of implements available to use with it too. Again, lots of good information about the featured brand. Stay safe.

[@piperdoug428]

C'MON FOLKS::THUMBS UP!!! Jasonikipedia deserves at least that for all his time making these great vidjas.

[@bigtractorpower]

I like Jasonikipedia. It is fun to share tractor history. This Oliver line made for a great filming opportunity.

[@eddiebalentine7938]

There wasn't many around my part of the country, but i always liked them. We pulled corn by hand and scooped it into crib by hand. We had a hand sheller mounted on a 1/4 barrel that we shelled the corn, andi still have the barrel and sheller. Thanks for the video.

[@bobsmith1814]

Great video, reminds me of watching my grandfather harvesting the corn on his farm. He was a diehard JD farmer but my cousin use red tractor but her husband collects Olivers

[@sharpshooter7127]

Old Oliver's getting with the program 👍🚜

[@emerkamp1]

We had 3 of them White 8600 combines back in the day, but them Oliver's really stole the show for me. You really know all the good tractors to show and dare I say buy. lol. Thanks again buddy.

[@alanstrong55]

Oliver made such fine equipment.

[@dirtthunder1638]

You had me at Oliver Tractor! LOL

[@bigtractorpower]

😁👍👍

[@richardharms8748]

Nice video. Thanks for your time.

[@ThatOliverGuyChris]

You have my full attention, awesome video!

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you Chris. I am an Oliver fan. It was great to get to film these classics. I really want to feature a Terra Tires like yours.

[@ThatOliverGuyChris]

I'm sure we could arrange something, Herman isn't camera shy.

[@smithjakecary2580]

M father was in the national picking contest in 1953 with a 88 and 2 row mounted did alot of custom work he was always proud to be factory sponsored

[@bigtractorpower]

Wow that is very cool. I have old Oliver and Allis-Chalmers corporate magazines that talk about the National Corn Picking contest.

[@farmshoffman8475]

Cutting edge back in the day

[@petedohmen8827]

Love those old olivers, Thanks for the vid

[@bigtractorpower]

They are one of my favorite tractors lines.

[@MattsInTheBelfry]

That's me going by @4:53. I remember an Oliver in the field then and just happened on this vid!

[@lil_farmer_7731]

My farm run like all Oliver

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool. I like Oliver.

[@lil_farmer_7731]

Sorry I misspelled

[@jamieshields9521]

Great vid👍always like Oliver and was talking dad other day last week, he said we had Oliver Cletrac before CAT D4. Surprise not see any Oliver Cletrac in this vid, they must be rare.

[@bigtractorpower]

Cletrac was a huge seller through the 30’s. WNY has a huge dealer. Several Cletracs still running muck near Albion NY. No Cletracs as this show so far. It would be cool to see one in the demonstration.

[@garymartin7354]

I run John deere, new idea and Oliver pickers,the Oliver did the best job.

[@bigtractorpower]

😁👍👍

[@888HUSKERS]

Watching these corn pickers and subsequent self propelled combines is mesmerizing!

[@Melidontcare]

Thank you for this awesome video !

[@markstengel7680]

Enjoyed watching Oliver/White ag machinery at work. 🚜👍

[@oz2267]

Very cool video, thx for posting. All the best from Israel.

[@marknicholson2718]

Another great video! Thanks!

[@jamesbarbour8400]

Those Oliver tractors sure looked like they were well engineered pieces of kit, but I have to say that the front axles and kingpins look decidedly weak compared to the substantial build on the rest of the tractors.

[@SchnelleKat]

Hard to beat an Oliver!!! Sames goes for the rest. *Except John Deere* xD

[@walterott9852]

Nice video Jason! Do you have any videos of a pull type Oliver combine with drapper head?

[@yesno3274]

Cool

[@todd3518]

great vid mike. did u have fun at the welkers? U need to hang out w brian b !

[@sergeantwilliams8185]

This is so cool 😎

[@johnquest2268]

Lots of corn left behind just like I remember.

[@bigtractorpower]

This show is a bit tough for the pickers. The corn was at 30% but the harvest show must go on.

[@richardclausen5565]

Did Oliver also make a corn picker that would also shell the corn at the same time

[@steinwaymodelb]

This video is showing me the description for the Case 2870 video...

[@bigtractorpower]

This video was made a 3:30 in the morning. Thanks for the catch. It is fixed now.

[@mrih1586]

Really surprised to learn corn pickers where offered as late as 74. I would have guessed early to mid 60's. Did most manufactures offer corn pickers till the mid 70's? Or just Oliver?

[@bigtractorpower]

New Idea offered their pull type picker until 1982 and continued to offer a mounted UNI System picker until 1994. IH offered their mounted picker epically for sweet corn through 1975. John Deere offered a pull type picker until about 1980.

[@mrih1586]

@@bigtractorpower Thanks for the education. The sweet corn I understand. But corn pickers just seem so backwoods to me. Cotton, soybeans and wheat were the cash crops here. Not much corn grown down this way. My only excuse for my ignorance.

[@davenhla]

Dairy farmers would grind the corn, cob and all, for animal feed. A corn picker could be had much cheaper then a combine, the cobs of corn in a crib could be stored and dried there until needed to grind thus avoiding the costs of drying the shell corn. Up here in WI where I am from, farmers were picking corn with new idea pickers into the 1990's. By the 80's, combines had advanced enough the harvest speed benefits were outpacing the drying costs. It still took a while for dairy farmers to move to that however as a new combine just to harvest some acres of animal feed was not very cost effective. by the 90's however, there were good used combines everywhere from farther south to be had. Really, for other crops like winter wheat or oats, they were used mostly as cover crops for hay and the acreage was limited enough that the little combines from the 60's were in service around here until the late 80's.

[@mrih1586]

@@davenhla Thank you for your input. I'm guessing your writing about small dairy's? I can't imagine how large a crib had to be for large dairy's. There were still a good many dairy's in my area in the 70's. The Dairyman we knew of, (ran into at the parts counter at the John Deere Dealer), all grew soybeans in addition to their dairy operation. As I remember, they had some of the newest and largest tractors and combines in the county. Of course they worked all the time. But their must have been money in dairy back then as they all flew pretty high.

[@davenhla]

@@mrih1586 In Wisconsin from the 60's through the early 90's, a big dairy was 100 milking cows, with the young stock and dry cows etc too. An Average dairy through the late 70's was 60 cows milking, maybe 50. There were exceptions of course. We sort of inherited the tractors and equipment from farther south like Iowa and Nebraska etc, when they big corn growers on the plains updated, the used stuff went north. Amusingly, the new stuff they were buying was all built up here! But in that way, stuff like IH Super M's and John Deere A's, JD 50's saw use into the 1980's and it was common for the "big" tractor on the farm to be between 100 and 120 HP. We just didn't till huge fields, most dairy farms were around 200 acres with somewhere between 130 and 180 tillable(the rest was woods or swamp) In the 80's, the combination of poor milk prices and huge interest rates put a major clamp on most family farms and the consolidation began. Nowdays the dairy's are factory style mega farms where the owner(s) MAYBE run tractors but otherwise the work is all hired out. I personally think things have gone all sorts of sideways wrong in dairy, but that's a long story.

[@dcwarner]

You would need enormous corn cribs to store 200 bushel corn.

[@codyburbach2197]

Looked like the 3 bottom was a bit too much for the old 1650, but still very nice tractor

[@bigtractorpower]

The ground was so dry this year. This was one of the few tractors that got the plow in the ground. Here is the full plowing video m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/n2bNY2mtecqgrsk

[@sixtoes2313]

Forgot all about the "Corn Cribs".

[@bigtractorpower]

At one time there were s bunch out there.

[@jmurphy1973]

...and by the time late winter rolled around, all the snow in the road ditches was black with the topsoil that had blown off field.