Mowing With A Time Machine: Oliver 82 Mower And 95 Crimper In Tandem For The First Time

[@ikonseesmrno7300]

I haven't seen an Ollie mower & conditioner setup in action before. Very cool!!

[@grayday8721]

Didn’t expect to see you here!😅

[@ikonseesmrno7300]

@@grayday8721 Had to stop by. Saw a hay conditioner in a thumbnail & got excited! 😂

[@johndeere1951a]

Nice vintage machines👍👍 I mow my hay field scraps and borders that our dairy farming neighbor doesn't cut with.my 1951 JD A with JD No.5 7-foot sickle power mower. Very satisfying 💚 The mounds might be old ant hills

[@DrEVIL-og4qv]

When Dad was farming the only thing OLIVER we had was that exact same model of sickle mower. Everything on it was getting really worn out. Would have cost a fortune to rebuild it, Dad priced a 9 ft IH trailing mower with the wobble box sickle drive but WOW was it expensive just to mow 20 acres 3 times a year. Dad and the neighbor both had 6 ft Brillion rotary mowers that they cut the right side side panels off to toss the cut hay clear of the next blade. Worked good, took 1 ft less than the sickle mower but no stops so I actually got done sooner. I worked for the township Road Commissioner 3 summers, He'd bought the Deere R diesel Dad bought, Wow I hated that thing, road Commissioner did too, He replaced it with an Oliver 770 diesel, I bet it's still running and that was 50 years ago, the 1974 Chevy C65 truck I drove was brand new that spring. Dad traded our '39 FARMALL H for a '54 Super H, live hyd and a fast 4th, 7 mph. Was the perfect speed to mow & rake hay. The Super M-TA and the 450 that replaced the MTA all had 7 mph 4th gears, year or two later we had to replace something in the transmission of the '51 M and a fast 4th was installed in it too. We lost the "Corn Picking Gear", not even sure which gear that was, but we still picked with it till Dad bought a '47 M to permanently mount the picker on.😊

[@geraldharkness8830]

a trully lovely field of hay there ethan!

[@brettlamont4965]

Ran a et up like that with 880 diesel nf when i was 14-15 years old. Thanks for posting and using the equipment like it is supposed to be used.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

That would be a nice outfit.

[@gkelley091]

In the early 80’s we ran a New Holland cycle mower with a Ford crimper (510?) behind it and pulled it with our Cockshutt 30 to mow 30 or so acres. That was fun to run and this video took me back to when I was kid cruising around the fields with that rig. Thanks!

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

That’s a lot of hay 7 feet at a time.

[@tca375]

Cool video!Neat to see that equipment in operation.Donkeys will eat it.

[@richardmead9225]

Your friends at the Floyd County Museum dropped an excellent video last night on the MM 4 wheel drive articulated tractors.

[@tylermaster7]

looks like you are MOVIN!!! sounds great

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

You can get right along with it.

[@tylermaster7]

Keep up the great work. Love watching and learning your Oliver equipment

[@joeyheatherjosephprice1520]

Love watching the old school stuff running. As far as an Oliver conditioner goes, I've never seen one, but I've run a New Holland alot as a kid and those things sounded like a herd of monkeys with hammers beating on wash tubs. Done a great job but really made the racket.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

It was never that loud before

[@gerrygebel3318]

Love the tamdem operation... brings back memories!

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

It’s fun to run.

[@jamesbreault5762]

Good job Ethan😊😊

[@Husker3435]

Another gem Ethan, the old hay train was pretty darn good. Save ya some passes in the field. Keep em comin OFB🇺🇸

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

I was happy with it.

[@dennisplace2641]

I used one for a long time, and the noise is the natural state that it is. Bought a new holand 479 noise retired.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

I have enough hours of running it to know that amount of vibration and banging isn’t it’s natural state.

[@KellyBenedix]

Love your old equipment!!

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Thanks

[@stephenheyes4324]

Great to see your combination working did a good job

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Thanks

[@tommoyer3302]

Nice 👍 the old timers used to say make sure you carry a sharp pocket knife so you can cut the wrapped hay out of the crimper , not a question of if its gonna wrap its when will it wrap 😅😊😅

[@chadtosh6831]

I’ve never seen one of those crimpers in action before. That is a cool machine. Seen a few sitting around fence lines and such though.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

They do a good job.

[@davidshowalter5808]

Very cool never seen that set up before tractor sounds great looks like it did a great job

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Most people haven’t seen a setup like that since the 60s.

[@andrewkomperda1773]

Now that was a cool snake for michigan

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Yep

[@jonathancrissinger2301]

I've not seen that tandem setup. That's really cool to watch. Great video, see you later. Take care.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

The original haybine.

[@thuggoe]

That's awesome almost never see the Michigan rattle snake

[@scottharvold6286]

That place would probably grow some good corn !

[@Thuy_Dailylife]

Good job ❤❤❤

[@217daryl]

Here is a thought Eathan, when I was a kid and we had to seed a field for grass we did it when we planted oats but was wondering if you could do the same with the winter wheat for that "new" field? Just a thought we used oats mostly had milking cows, so we harvested the oats baled the straw and then got a first cutting in the fall after the oats. It turned out fairly good for the most part, but we had a woods on one side that shaded the field, so you know what that does. Good luck and I bet the 77 got one heck of a workout with that setup!

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Wheat would shade it out and you don’t want all the straw in the hay if you managed a cutting off it.

[@robertcheatham2891]

As far as seeding hay into wheat people used to do it all the time and some still do.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

I’m not going to for the 2 reasons I just said. 🤷‍♂️

[@mikekahl4745]

When I was a kid in the 70's, the neighbor was mowing hay with his Oliver 66 and the same thing happened with a black snake, only he jumped off the far side when the snake climbed the wheel.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

As long as I know they are there snakes don’t bother me.

[@tyb525]

When I mow with a sickle, our tractor wheels are set the same width as the sickle bar. I go around the outside first with the sickle inwards, then turn around and go around the other way to do the very outside. Works great cause it keeps me from hitting posts or anything else on the outside edge.

[@randywilson9611]

Good video good to see you

[@Jethrosgarage]

I ran a Minneapolis Moline RTU with a New Idea model 80 (?) semi mount sickle, and we had some rough small fields- dad got me a job doing some little patch on shares for some folks, man it was ROUGH it was a hill side and I swear hadn't been cut in years. I know he thought he was doing the right thing but our equipment was so ragged it barely cut our 9-10 acres and here he had me out cutting other folk's stuff with that junk. Allis 303 baler might make 50 bales without missing a few? Steel wheel rake. No brakes on the MM mowing tractor, you dropped the cutter bar and hoped it slowed you down...

[@Scott-h7v]

The original MOCO. Cool!

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Yep

[@musefurd]

It's nice to see that older set up still earning it's keep. I was wondering if it would work to remove your pitman arm and lift your Sickle bar in to its transport position, when conditioning your back swath.

[@curtmcelvain1749]

Looked like a racer to me. Racers get big and strike like that plus they come in a variety of shades. Water snake possibly also. Maybe camera didn’t do it justice. Great video

[@chuckk458]

“I didn’t kill it, but the poor b* went under the mower.” Me: “you gave it every chance to move. Seems to me like it’s the snake’s problem, not yours.”

[@michaelsheeder148]

Ethan, I think that probably would work with spray foam to help make it a little quieter. You're right that Hayfield was pretty bad. Thanks Michael

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Gonna try it and see what happens.

[@briangrammer898]

❤❤VIDEO ❤❤ on the 8th day god created the farmer❤❤

[@chriswalker4142]

I really enjoyed watching your channel as its alittle different then my area here in northeastern Nevada, I use a jd 3020 and a few old farmalls for farming. I love the fact you are able to find and use only Oliver on your farm . Just wondering why you haven't invested in a Oliver haybine with crimper ? It would save you on making a crimping pass and might save on having to rake it . I can cut and next day bale here because I'm in dry climate and 70-102° days from May to September .

[@joshcrd7925]

Humidity is to high and material is usually to thick around here to get away with mowing into a tight windrow for hay. Bottom side tends to never dry out.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

I don’t need a haybine and if I was going to upgrade I wouldn’t wast money on another sickle I’d get a discbine.

[@davidvogel2592]

We usually found the snakes baled up in the hay when putting it in the barn . Hopefully, you get the extra land to farm.

[@MikeTidman]

Wasn't unusual to find a little of everything - mice, snakes, whatever - especially when running the crimper.

[@neilkratzer3182]

I remember the days we did it this way with no haybine.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

A lot simpler.

[@johnkissack5295]

You sure got a good stand of hay in your field. Never seen a crimped pulled by mower it really a slick combo. Are you mowing in second gear?

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Third gear in the open. Second in tight spots.

[@PaulHigginbothamSr]

If ya'll had a vibratory roller this would be a good field to pound flat. Not a heavy roller but one of those small hand held hooked behind ya'll's Oliver 77. Like Diesel Creek has.

[@ford9000puller]

I’ve got hopes to put the Ford version of a tandem setup together someday.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Neighbor has a Ford crimper he’d probably sell at some point. Haven’t see it out in a while but back when he still used it a lot it was a really nice straight original.

[@nealbrandmeyer572]

They make a spray foam thing for post holes. Would probably work good on the crimper

[@markpigman209]

Make that new field into corn

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

No

[@WilliamWebb-i4f]

Is there anyway to calk the rollers to find the contact spots

[@duanekabanuk3974]

I would be very nervous picking up those bales. We have bull snakes up here in North Dakota. They look like rattle snakes and act like rattle snakes. However, they don't have a rattle.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Once they’re in the bale they don’t have much fight left in them.

[@michaelpavlica5080]

Do you ever get to any Tractor Show's. There's one coming up in Saginaw County. The Mid Michigan Old Gas Association August 16th 17th and 18th. I watch all ur Video's. My Dad had a sickle mower and crimper

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

No

[@chuckk458]

It almost seems to me like there’s something rolling around inside one of those rollers. (Maybe you’ve found that out in one of your newer videos, or maybe it was something else.. I am a bit behind on watching, I admit.

[@ascension8811]

Great tandem setup. If you were running it when you came across the snake in the grass, it would have been history. She was not happy with you.

[@richardgash2349]

a field of weeds

[@AJmx2702001]

I don't think that was an Eastern massagua and be careful if you do encounter one they are protected lol Don't ask me how I found that out

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

It was a grey rat snake. Fount out later.

[@peterjames2004]

fill them with cavity wall insulation

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

That’s the plan.

[@davidlauman760]

Is that field ruff?

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Isn’t that what I said?

[@robertburey4704]

Omg... I hate snakes, and it looks big.

[@richardmead9225]

You have a lot of ponds there. The snake might be a water moccasin.

[@fruitfarmfords8243]

No water moccasins in michigan or near it.

[@richardgash2349]

one or more bearings are shot sir

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

No they aren’t. They are brand new…

[@peterjames2004]

sell to goat people they want weeds not grass i kid you not,,goat hay

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

It’s not my hay to sell…

[@fruitfarmfords8243]

Northern water snake, harmless. The massasauga rattler doesnt get that big, generally. We have a bunch of snakes that mimic dangerous snakes to help protect themselves, however it tends to get them killed by people that dont know any better. And the massasauga is "endangered" and protected, so dont film yourself killing one.. haha.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Coloring is right but the head is the wrong shape.

[@MikeTidman]

Do me a favor. Shut that tractor off when you have your hands in the machinery.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

I wouldn’t get your hopes up.

[@curtmcelvain1749]

Looked like a racer to me. Racers get big and strike like that plus they come in a variety of shades. Water snake possibly also. Maybe camera didn’t do it justice. Great video

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

It wasn’t a racer. They are built sleeker.