Power for your farm future

[@victoryfirst2878]

This is when America was KING !!!! OUR products were second to NONE !!! Very nice film video Ron.

[@ylwpyro9549]

Oliver was one of the best tractor manufacturers of the 20th century, and the first tractor I ever drove was an Oliver 1650.

[@Nudnik1]

Many are installing 5.9 Cummins motors in them when old Waukesha blows.. Love these Olivers

[@randymagnum143]

Cummins won't fit in Waukesha frame. Need one with a junk perkins. Detroit powered tractors never give up, and are too valuable anymore to swap.

[@Nudnik1]

@@randymagnum143 saw a few Oliver's with 5.9 Cummins at pull. . Not sure how they fit it in. SAE bell housing match? Adapter? "Not many walk to shore motors "left. Peace out

[@edwinkle1342]

Thanks Ronald for putting this up. Oliver is the machinery love of my life. I still farm with 40 year old Olivers.

[@SixMeter]

Dad had a 1950-T Oliver. T indicating Turbo. My grandpa was crossing an old bridge that hadn't been crossed in 6 years, but it was a short cut to where they were going, and pulling a man operated grader behind it. Just when the front wheels made it to the road on the other side the bridge gave way. The tractor dropped 25ft and landed on it's wheels and the bridge flipped the grader on top of the cab of the tractor. Tractor ws still running and trying to climb out. This happened in 1969. Sold it

[@nellsonstout7001]

Was everyone ok?

[@johncobb2695]

I have a 1550 diesel and would'nt let it go for anything, it is a workhorse. A UPS driver has tried for years to buy it from me with no luck, I hope my fellow Oliver owners feel the same as I do about my Oliver.

[@Xg8]

I grew up on ih letter series, experienced a 770 in early 90's , then the 550 then the 1755 then 2-135 and I thought i died and went to heaven.

[@42lookc]

What an astounding leap in power, comfort, convenience, and technology in only 25 years from the Hart Parr 70 in 1935, to the 1800 in 1960! That must have been dizzying in the farming community! I wonder if they could have known then that a lot of 1800's would still find themselves in regular use almost 60 years later?

[@justinstearns9723]

I’ve got a 1944 70 that’s still a worker. Almost 76 years after it rolled off the line.

[@brianberning5330]

Grandpa bought a oliver 1600 narrow front in 1965 and a 565 4bottom plow and was the first tractor I got to drive in 1990 then the sold it but loved it so much and miss that handy tractor that when I got in my twenty went out and bought me one

[@blusharx]

Thank you for that upload. Oliver tractors are very reliable and powerfull machines.

[@calebbaldwin2017]

I have a 1973 Oliver and will not stop

[@1978garfield]

Oliver made such good tractors. I wish they had never merged with White.

[@Ihfarmer23]

Right same with minneapolis moline and cockshutt b.s what white did

[@nellsonstout7001]

I both agree and disagree. I love field boss and work horse series Whites myself

[@johnmiller4617]

Tractor I miss the most was our 1655. Pretty tractor and extremely nimble in the field. Seventy horsepower at the time was plenty for our small farm. Now, both gone. Shame.

[@donaldmack7213]

Dad had a 1650. Very good tractor. Wish we had it today.

[@waynebrown2546]

my dad got one new in 1970 (69 model that never went to lease). He retired in 91, just saw it on machinery Pete this past year sell. still original paint. He just knew when he saw it

[@erdjohn]

Love those old videos.

[@ultramunman]

Great video, really liked it...the 1800 which came out in 1960 was a good tractor and they got better with later models with the 1850 and 1855.

[@Karl2070]

We had an 1800 c series made in 1964 on the farm. Dad called an auction and said screw you guys. if you want anything, then buy it. I still miss my 1800 Oliver. what a machine

[@denniscarter483]

If you had an Oliver you didn't need anything else.

[@plowboy84q26]

We had a 1350 Oliver with a factory loader on it on our ranch growing up, grandaddy bought in 71’. It’s still there today and still working, it has about 4500 hours on it, and runs like a champ, we added remotes to the rear and a canopy. It’s always been a hay/utility tractor, had a set of forks on the front, great for limbs and hay rolls. Granny ain’t selling either

[@charlesosberg8678]

I started with Dad's 1949 60 that he bought in 1951 when he got the farm. I sold it once and bought it back, have owned an 88,880,Farmall 400,Case 1090 and now back to my Oliver 1755. Not planning on getting rid of anything but hopefully to get more Olivers as I reach retirement. Go Oliver, the"TRUE GREEN TRACTOR".

[@jefffirefighter12106]

How would I get a copy of these videos for my home use. During the winter months I like to watch old Tractor and Farming videos.

[@cyberat1624]

get a hold of the oliver museum in Charles city IA

[@ianBeer123]

I remember seeing this at a dealer meeting. It seems like just yesterday to me and you know, Oliver was years ahead of the others in design and features. Too bad that White flushed them down the drain with such poor management.

[@fk4515]

White gets blamed for a lot that wasn't their fault, they were in a financial bind before they got involved in farm equipment. White motor company had a knack for getting themselves into markets that were contracting. During this time period farms were growing by leaps and bounds and for every BTO who bought himself one of these big shiny new tractors and took over another farm to make it work that was another smaller line of implements that didn't get sold and another family that earned it's livelihood in other ways. With the demand for the number of tractors shrinking (fewer farmers) this was in industry getting smaller so while Oliver made good tractors they weren't able to sell enough of them to make money at them, they were unable to make economy of scale (same thing that happened to Studebaker) . This film spends a lot of time talking about spark ignition engines (gasoline, LP gas) they might of been better served by spending the money sunk into those engines into other things unless they found a market for low RPM high torque spark ignition engines, used someone else's engines or partnered with someone who had the need for them. Some of the tractors shown in this movie weren't Olivers, they were another brand painted to look like Olivers although this may of been a good strategy to serve market demand they couldn't afford to engineer and produce for, some of the paint engineered tractors were not their finest hour. Oliver was at a disadvantage being a short line manufacturer, meaning they didn't make all the equipment a farmer would need. They might of been better served teaming up with another short liner and each company taking on the research, design and production of market segments to compliment each other or team up with foreign manufacturers and license some of their technology to incorporate into their equipment as well as manufacture/market/service the partner's equipment, and by this I am referring to manufacturers like Lely, Khrone and Klaus remembering that European manufacturers didn't do BIG as well as we did. The trick would of been to find an overseas partner who could/would license/manufacture/market/service Oliver equipment in their home markets allowing both partners a larger production run to amortize the R&D costs over a larger production run.

[@ianBeer123]

What on earth are you talking about? Oliver was very much a full-line company that built everything from plows to combines. White screwed up by trying to run too many companies together and by mismanagement of all of them. They were no worse off than any other company as the result of a contracting market but they failed while others flourished. John Deere, Case, and IH grabbed the spoils and left White behind as a result. It's a darned shame.

[@redironacres]

I'm not sure what you mean when you say they focused on gas engines. Oliver was the biggest pusher to have diesel engines in tractors. As for not selling enough, there are tons of Olivers (cockshutts here) that were sold. Every old dealer I've been too had no problem selling a large number of tractors. If White hadn't gotten in the way of the original 55 series, you'd still be seeing Olivers being sold today

[@ianBeer123]

He doesn't have a clue what he's talking about. Just some goof shooting his mouth off trying to sound like an expert who knows nothing about Oliver or White Motor Co. You're absolutely right about White screwing up a perfectly good tractor line too. They were far ahead of the times and had features that none of the other companies had even dreamed of yet. It was really a darned shame. :(

[@gleanerk]

Thanks for sharing

[@Xg8]

Someday I m going to have one if lucky

[@lukestrawwalker]

Shame it wasn't in better focus, but I suppose that's because of the VHS transfer, which itself was probably from an 8mm or 16mm film transfer, since there weren't any VCR's in dealerships to watch this with in the 70's... Later! OL J R :)

[@sd31263]

This film was made in 1960. The 1800 was a new model then. If the 1935 Oliver was 25 years old, well...you do the math.

[@thevox1075]

Anyone have an 1800 with a 6-14” plow? How did it pull?

[@nellsonstout7001]

I’m sure it could be done if the plow and hitch were set right. In furrow plows pull easier as well. Try it in the heavy clay soil of my area and we’re talking 4-16” lol, possibly even 3 if it’s deep

[@bradleylong1686]

I now own my Dad's 1960 1800A....Gas....4-14's with a clod buster attached....pulled like a champ....but the promo of 2 12' disc's attached side by side are a bit of a stretch for a 77 HP tractor....unless u just wanted to "scratch the surface"...but just a smooth running solid tractor to run as a young man and now to still have in possession for my sons and grandsons.

[@10mmfan]

If White Motor Co had not purchased and trashed Oliver we would be seeing a different shade of green all over the country now.

[@nellsonstout7001]

I disagree. Neither Ih nor Allis survived the 80s and they were highly diversified in their product offerings, and I say this as an Oliver lover.

[@glenirwin1110]

This is probably from very early 1960's not 1970's.

[@lukestrawwalker]

Detroit Diesel in one of those... I bet that was a screamer! Sure got the job done I bet, but I'm sure all the guys that drove those are stone deaf now... LOL:) Later! OL J R :)

[@66Oliver]

luke strawwalker We have a 1900A as shone in the video, and it’s a screamer. Has the original muffler still.

[@jodyhardy8631]

To be such a good tractor ,oliver does'nt exsist any longer

[@dannyboy6332]

I wonder if the announcer or the tractor driver either one is still alive?? What year was this made?

[@justinstearns9723]

300 pound grille? I'd hate to have to take that off...

[@lukestrawwalker]

Have a hard time putting a dent in it though! Plus, that was a third of a set of front end weights at that time... so if you added a standard 1,000 set of weights on the front, you now had 1300 lbs of front end weight, which is close to what a lot of modern tractors have... Later! OL J R :)

[@10mmfan]

I have. I think they are over 300 pounds. Everything was stated conservatively back then including horse power.

[@adacompton7644]

good,show,this,is,david,compton,can,i,get,a,dvd,copie

[@adacompton7644]

hi,name,is,david,compton,can,copy,on,dvd

[@nikerailfanningttm9046]

240p.......yeah the original video was never this fuzzy

[@mattrepp8833]

All of her had so many first, 6 cylinder live power Detroit Diesel, no other tractor maker had more innovation than Oliver period. John Deere was way behind with their two cylinders, international had their big blunder with the 560, massey-harris merged with Ferguson and had nothing but junk.

[@GMdieselman]

I'm an Oliver guy through and through, but Allis Chalmers also had a lot of innovations they brought to the tractor industry. They pioneered the use of rubber tires, first to use a factory turbocharger, and invented the power shift rear wheels. That's one of the big reasons I like Allis and Oliver so much, they were innovators for the industry.

[@RJ1999x]

@@GMdieselman Allis Chalmers were the innovators, the others were imitators

[@49commander]

Um this was promoting the new 1960 Oliver 1800! It was a decade ahead of most of the Industry!

[@randyrobinson8751]

oliver still was no competition for john deere at that time. and for what was coming from Deere& co. in fall of 1963

[@interman7715]

Randy Robinson JD was running those old twin cylinder things with hand clutches and pony engines till 1960 ,give me a break .IHC ,Oliver ,Ford ,Massey left them for dead with innovations .

[@thevox1075]

Randy Robinson check out the Oliver Corporate tractor that was to come out. Would have taken over the farm tractor industry.

[@carolanderson8732]

I grew up farming in the late 50’s with Oliver and John Deere. Our JD model G didn’t couldn’t hold a candle compared to our Oliver 88 in plain pull and the JD had no live PTO.

[@JA-fn7le]

@@thevox1075 got pictures?

[@thevox1075]

Justin Altemeier look it up right here on KZbin.

[@randyrobinson8751]

they sure overrated 1800 n 1900