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Oliver 88

2022-04-15T07:04:48Z

Nick-local: Created page with "==History== So, Uncle Junior bought this tractor at an auction and drove it back to his farm. He didn't make it because the engine seized not to far from home so he went and got one of his other tractors, towed it to the tree row in his lane and left it there. Decades later, his Allis Chalmers WD45 needed an overhaul so my grandfather offered to do that in trade for the 88. "Hey, that's a deal," is what Grandpa said Uncle Junior thought of the transaction. As it sat,..."

==History==
So, Uncle Junior bought this tractor at an auction and drove it back to his farm. He didn't make it because the engine seized not to far from home so he went and got one of his other tractors, towed it to the tree row in his lane and left it there. Decades later, his Allis Chalmers WD45 needed an overhaul so my grandfather offered to do that in trade for the 88. "Hey, that's a deal," is what Grandpa said Uncle Junior thought of the transaction. As it sat, there was nothing really special about this tractor other than it's independent live PTO. Grandpa had plans though and went about setting it up exactly the way he'd always imagined having a big powerful tractor.

While overhauling the engine, Grandpa discovered that the front crank seal, which was cork, had cremated. The shop manual says to soak this for 24hrs in oil before installing and he assumed this wasn't done and that cause the engine to run out of oil and seize. He also discovered that it had been "super dupered" - someone installed sleeves and pistons that were well oversized (tractordata.com says the 88 had a bore of 3.5", and the super had a bore of 3.75". The installed pistons and sleeves must have been 4"), Grandpa replaced these with "super" pistons and sleeves. His main modification was to install a hydraulic system; Oliver had what they called a "Hydra-lectric" system, but Grandpa had head stories of these being unreliable and wasn't especially interested in maintaining the electrical components so he removed them.

The hydraulic system with it's two control valves allowed him to mount two essential pieces of technology, the front end loader he'd built himself, and an Oliver hydralic hitch from an 880 or 770. The front end loader had been mounted to the Oliver 77 known as "old smokey" ever since he'd acquired it as far as I know and before that on the Hart-Parr Oliver 70. On the 70, it'd been powered by a pump run from the pulley output, on the 77 it was powered by a pump run off the front of the engine. The Oliver standard hydraulic system ran from the PTO shaft as it passed through the inside of the transmission. Since that shaft was also used to run the mechanical lift system that had been on the tractor originally, an amount of it needed to be parted off on the lathe to make things fit.

The hitch would've come from the factory on a 770 or an 880 and would have included provisions for mounting 3-point tools. Grandpa only ever had a pallet fork that mounted to a tractor's 3-pt hitch and his Ford 9N managed that task very well so he elected not to even purchase these when he bought the hitch. He told me he paid $75 for the hitch, and the guy wanted another $5 for each 3-pt mount. I've seen these hitches sell for $975 and up on eBay these last few years. The 3-pt mounts were another $75 each.

After restoration/modification this became the main tractor on the farm, although Grandpa had long since retired and wasn't really doing much farming anyway. I remember in high school, spending a week with my grandparents one summer and grandpa was harvesting oats with this machine and a pull-behind combine. Years later, we were breaking the bead on a lawnmower tire and used the front-end loader and a block of wood to do so, when it came away with ease Grandpa remarked, "that tractor has been the handiest thing. Every time I have a job, it just does it."

At some point between those two events, my uncle purchased a power steering motor and pump for the tractor and this greatly improved handling with a heavy load on the loader. This necessitated swapping the AC Delco alternator for an original style 12V generator because they had a shaft that extended past the tail piece onto which the steering pump mounted.

==Present==
The tractor is largely unaltered since Grandpa completed his work on it. However, there have been some repairs and modifications:

===Repairs===
* The parking brake strap on the right side broke in half. This is the side most commonly used because it's opposite the clutch. A replacement was found on eBay but they don't match.
* Over the last few years, the exhaust note has been getting throatier and the flapper on the muffler has been less responsive to throttle increases. This is because of a common failure on Oliver tractors where the intake manifold disintegrates right below the muffler. This area is actually part of the exhaust; the intake and exhaust manifolds are bolted together with a "chest" wrapping the intake manifold so that heat from the exhaust can promote atomization of gasoline. This is probably unnecessary today with modern gasoline but no one has modified the manifolds to eliminate this point of failure. A replacement manifold set was sourced easily and my father and I installed it in a single afternoon.
* The air cleaner wasn't plumbed to the carburetor so I re-installed some radiator hose to get it breathing filtered air. I'd been seeing the tractor making a very light white/blue smoke at idle the last few years. There's probably at least one cylinder with scarred side walls now.

===Modifications===
* A brake equalizer pedal was installed to improve stopping. Grandpa didn't like these and most farmers disconnected/removed them. Most farmers were using their brakes for steering, I was trying to gingerly push things with the front-end loader while working uphill.

==Images==
<gallery>
File:oliver88_1.jpg|Oliver 88 in summer 2021. Note blackened side panel from leaky exhaust
</gallery>

Root Beer Float

2022-04-14T01:18:19Z

Nick-local: Created page with "Root Beer Floats are easy, and getting the perfect one just takes a little bit of effort. ==Components== * Root Beer * Ice Cream (probably vanilla flavor is best, but go ahead and try scooperman) * Granulated Sugar ==Assembly== # Refrigerate the root beer. # Remove root beer from refrigeration temporarily and poor into measuring glass (like a 12oz plastic cup). # Add a pinch of granulated sugar to the root beer. This allows the root beer to go flat. # Return root beer..."

Root Beer Floats are easy, and getting the perfect one just takes a little bit of effort.

==Components==
* Root Beer
* Ice Cream (probably vanilla flavor is best, but go ahead and try scooperman)
* Granulated Sugar

==Assembly==
# Refrigerate the root beer.
# Remove root beer from refrigeration temporarily and poor into measuring glass (like a 12oz plastic cup).
# Add a pinch of granulated sugar to the root beer. This allows the root beer to go flat.
# Return root beer to refrigerator for like twenty minutes.
# When you're ready, remove the root beer from the fridge and ice cream from the freezer (you should've kept this frozen).
# Scoop some ice cream into an appropriate container
# Slowly poor root beer over ice cream. Flat root beer doesn't foam as vigorously.
# (Optional) use a paddle straw to dissolve the ice cream into the root beer (this is apparently called a root beer freeze)

Food

2022-04-14T01:10:47Z

Nick-local: Created page with "Please tell me you didn't come here just for this. ==Recipes== Root Beer Float ==Reviews=="

Please tell me you didn't come here just for this.

==Recipes==
[[Root Beer Float]]

==Reviews==

Main Page

2022-04-14T01:09:56Z

Nick-local: /* Aditional Reading */

Welcome!

This wiki serves as my personal web site. Please feel free to browse around. If I'm lucky, there won't be too many wiki holes to fall into.

== Aditional Reading ==
[[ Automobiles ]] 
[[ Computers ]] 
[[ Food ]] 
[[ Projects ]] 
[[ Tractors ]]

Computers

2022-04-13T01:46:53Z

Nick-local: /* Derlict Physical Machines */

The computers are really why we're all here, right? The first computer I remember using to any degree was my dad's Rainbow 100. For Christmas in 1996 or 1997 Dad bought a Gateway 2000 P5-133 workstation that was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium#Pentium P54CS] based. At some point, my maternal grandfather gave my mother a Packard Bell 286 in desktop form factor. When I was a freshman in high-school, I built my first PC in a Gateway 2000 4dx-33C tower that Dad brought home from work. Years later after I built my Core I7-920 PC, a friend convinced me to recycle most of my collection so I did.

After moving halfway across the state, I found the [https://www.youtube.com/c/Lazygamereviews LGR YouTube channel] and got frustrated watching him try to figure out which end of a floppy cable goes where. I decided to build a 486 and video tape it to show him how it's done. I collected all the parts but never recorded the video. That was four years ago, I've been rebuilding the collection since then.

==Computers List==
===Physical "Current" Machines===
[[Executor - Main Workstation]] 
[[Narcissus - Secondary Workstation]] 
[[Zeus - Domain Controller]] 
[[HyperV03 - Virtual Server]] 
[[AthenaFury - File Server]] 
[[Echo - Backup Server]] 
[[Agesilaos - PiHole]] 
[[Hestia - Home Assistant]] 
[[RPI-B - NUT Server]] 
[[Cerebus - pfSense Firewall]] 
[[Opti9020 - HTPC]] 
[[Zx0Q - ????]] 
[[HP T620Big]] 
[[HP T620Libre]] 
[[HP T520s]] 

===Physical "Retro" Machines===
[[Nike - Old Mail Workstation]] 
[[Aphrodite - Intergraph TDZ 2000 GL2]] 
[[Yeoman - AMD K6-3]] 
[[Inquisitor - Abit BP6]] 
[[Explorer - 486 DX4 100]] 
[[Dell Latitude X200s]] 
[[Upcoming Builds]] 

===Derlict Physical Machines===
[[Apple PowerMac G5s]] 
[[Dell Precision T7400]] 
[[Dell Precision T3500]] 
[[BigreElect - Xeon X3470]] 
[[Theseus - Old file server]] 
[[Jetson TK1]] 

===Virtual Machines===
[[agesilaos]] 
[[Cassandra]] 
[[Demeter]] 
[[DPMSVRV001]] 
[[ELKSTKV001]] 
[[enyo]] 
[[Hades]] 
[[haiku]] 
[[HDLCMSV001]] 
[[helios]] 
[[hephaestus]] 
[[hestia]] 
[[JKSMTRV001]] 
[[LCLMTAV001]] 
[[MDACTRV001]] 
[[Mnemosyne]] 
[[NXTCLDV001]] 
[[RDSHSTV001]] 
[[reactos]] 
[[SMBPXYV001]] 
[[SSOTSTV001]] 
[[tekton]] 
[[TheDude]] 
[[TRUNASV001]] 
[[VTLSVRV001]] 
[[w10gldv001]] 
[[W10TSTV002]] 
[[WEBPXYV001]]

Computers

2022-04-13T01:36:30Z

Nick-local:

The computers are really why we're all here, right? The first computer I remember using to any degree was my dad's Rainbow 100. For Christmas in 1996 or 1997 Dad bought a Gateway 2000 P5-133 workstation that was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium#Pentium P54CS] based. At some point, my maternal grandfather gave my mother a Packard Bell 286 in desktop form factor. When I was a freshman in high-school, I built my first PC in a Gateway 2000 4dx-33C tower that Dad brought home from work. Years later after I built my Core I7-920 PC, a friend convinced me to recycle most of my collection so I did.

After moving halfway across the state, I found the [https://www.youtube.com/c/Lazygamereviews LGR YouTube channel] and got frustrated watching him try to figure out which end of a floppy cable goes where. I decided to build a 486 and video tape it to show him how it's done. I collected all the parts but never recorded the video. That was four years ago, I've been rebuilding the collection since then.

==Computers List==
===Physical "Current" Machines===
[[Executor - Main Workstation]] 
[[Narcissus - Secondary Workstation]] 
[[Zeus - Domain Controller]] 
[[HyperV03 - Virtual Server]] 
[[AthenaFury - File Server]] 
[[Echo - Backup Server]] 
[[Agesilaos - PiHole]] 
[[Hestia - Home Assistant]] 
[[RPI-B - NUT Server]] 
[[Cerebus - pfSense Firewall]] 
[[Opti9020 - HTPC]] 
[[Zx0Q - ????]] 
[[HP T620Big]] 
[[HP T620Libre]] 
[[HP T520s]] 

===Physical "Retro" Machines===
[[Nike - Old Mail Workstation]] 
[[Aphrodite - Intergraph TDZ 2000 GL2]] 
[[Yeoman - AMD K6-3]] 
[[Inquisitor - Abit BP6]] 
[[Explorer - 486 DX4 100]] 
[[Dell Latitude X200s]] 
[[Upcoming Builds]] 

===Derlict Physical Machines===
[[Apple PowerMac G5s]] 
[[Dell Precision T7400]] 
[[Dell Precision T3500]] 
[[BigreElect - Xeon X3470]] 

===Virtual Machines===
[[agesilaos]] 
[[Cassandra]] 
[[Demeter]] 
[[DPMSVRV001]] 
[[ELKSTKV001]] 
[[enyo]] 
[[Hades]] 
[[haiku]] 
[[HDLCMSV001]] 
[[helios]] 
[[hephaestus]] 
[[hestia]] 
[[JKSMTRV001]] 
[[LCLMTAV001]] 
[[MDACTRV001]] 
[[Mnemosyne]] 
[[NXTCLDV001]] 
[[RDSHSTV001]] 
[[reactos]] 
[[SMBPXYV001]] 
[[SSOTSTV001]] 
[[tekton]] 
[[TheDude]] 
[[TRUNASV001]] 
[[VTLSVRV001]] 
[[w10gldv001]] 
[[W10TSTV002]] 
[[WEBPXYV001]]

Computers

2022-04-13T01:35:53Z

Nick-local:

The computers are really why we're all here, right? The first computer I remember using to any degree was my dad's Rainbow 100. For Christmas in 1996 or 1997 Dad bought a Gateway 2000 P5-133 workstation that was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium#Pentium P54CS] based. At some point, my maternal grandfather gave my mother a Packard Bell 286 in desktop form factor. When I was a freshman in high-school, I built my first PC in a Gateway 2000 4dx-33C tower that Dad brought home from work. Years later after I built my Core I7-920 PC, a friend convinced me to recycle most of my collection so I did.

After moving halfway across the state, I found the [https://www.youtube.com/c/Lazygamereviews LGR YouTube channel] and got frustrated watching him try to figure out which end of a floppy cable goes where. I decided to build a 486 and video tape it to show him how it's done. I collected all the parts but never recorded the video. That was four years ago, I've been rebuilding the collection since then.

==Computers List==
===Physical "Current" Machines==
[[Executor - Main Workstation]] 
[[Narcissus - Secondary Workstation]] 
[[Zeus - Domain Controller]] 
[[HyperV03 - Virtual Server]] 
[[AthenaFury - File Server]] 
[[Echo - Backup Server]] 
[[Agesilaos - PiHole]] 
[[Hestia - Home Assistant]] 
[[RPI-B - NUT Server]] 
[[Cerebus - pfSense Firewall]] 
[[Opti9020 - HTPC]] 
[[Zx0Q - ????]] 
[[HP T620Big]] 
[[HP T620Libre]] 
[[HP T520s]] 

===Physical "Retro" Machines===
[[Nike - Old Mail Workstation]] 
[[Aphrodite - Intergraph TDZ 2000 GL2]] 
[[Yeoman - AMD K6-3]] 
[[Inquisitor - Abit BP6]] 
[[Explorer - 486 DX4 100]] 
[[Dell Latitude X200s]] 
[[Upcoming Builds]] 

===Derlict Physical Machines===
[[Apple PowerMac G5s]] 
[[Dell Precision T7400]] 
[[Dell Precision T3500]] 
[[BigreElect - Xeon X3470]] 

===Virtual Machines===
[[agesilaos]] 
[[Cassandra]] 
[[Demeter]] 
[[DPMSVRV001]] 
[[ELKSTKV001]] 
[[enyo]] 
[[Hades]] 
[[haiku]] 
[[HDLCMSV001]] 
[[helios]] 
[[hephaestus]] 
[[hestia]] 
[[JKSMTRV001]] 
[[LCLMTAV001]] 
[[MDACTRV001]] 
[[Mnemosyne]] 
[[NXTCLDV001]] 
[[RDSHSTV001]] 
[[reactos]] 
[[SMBPXYV001]] 
[[SSOTSTV001]] 
[[tekton]] 
[[TheDude]] 
[[TRUNASV001]] 
[[VTLSVRV001]] 
[[w10gldv001]] 
[[W10TSTV002]] 
[[WEBPXYV001]]

Computers

2022-04-13T01:34:40Z

Nick-local: Created page with "The computers are really why we're all here, right? The first computer I remember using to any degree was my dad's Rainbow 100. For Christmas in 1996 or 1997 Dad bought a Gateway 2000 P5-133 workstation that was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium#Pentium P54CS] based. At some point, my maternal grandfather gave my mother a Packard Bell 286 in desktop form factor. When I was a freshman in high-school, I built my first PC in a Gateway 2000 4dx-33C tower that Dad br..."

The computers are really why we're all here, right? The first computer I remember using to any degree was my dad's Rainbow 100. For Christmas in 1996 or 1997 Dad bought a Gateway 2000 P5-133 workstation that was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium#Pentium P54CS] based. At some point, my maternal grandfather gave my mother a Packard Bell 286 in desktop form factor. When I was a freshman in high-school, I built my first PC in a Gateway 2000 4dx-33C tower that Dad brought home from work. Years later after I built my Core I7-920 PC, a friend convinced me to recycle most of my collection so I did.

After moving halfway across the state, I found the [https://www.youtube.com/c/Lazygamereviews LGR YouTube channel] and got frustrated watching him try to figure out which end of a floppy cable goes where. I decided to build a 486 and video tape it to show him how it's done. I collected all the parts but never recorded the video. That was four years ago, I've been rebuilding the collection since then.

==Computers List==
===Physical "Current" Machines==
[[Executor - Main Workstation]]
[[Narcissus - Secondary Workstation]]
[[Zeus - Domain Controller]]
[[HyperV03 - Virtual Server]]
[[AthenaFury - File Server]]
[[Echo - Backup Server]]
[[Agesilaos - PiHole]]
[[Hestia - Home Assistant]]
[[RPI-B - NUT Server]]
[[Cerebus - pfSense Firewall]]
[[Opti9020 - HTPC]]
[[Zx0Q - ????]]
[[HP T620Big]]
[[HP T620Libre]]
[[HP T520s]]

===Physical "Retro" Machines===
[[Nike - Old Mail Workstation]]
[[Aphrodite - Intergraph TDZ 2000 GL2]]
[[Yeoman - AMD K6-3]]
[[Inquisitor - Abit BP6]]
[[Explorer - 486 DX4 100]]
[[Dell Latitude X200s]]
[[Upcoming Builds]]

===Derlict Physical Machines===
[[Apple PowerMac G5s]]
[[Dell Precision T7400]]
[[Dell Precision T3500]]
[[BigreElect - Xeon X3470]]

===Virtual Machines===
[[agesilaos]]
[[Cassandra]]
[[Demeter]]
[[DPMSVRV001]]
[[ELKSTKV001]]
[[enyo]]
[[Hades]]
[[haiku]]
[[HDLCMSV001]]
[[helios]]
[[hephaestus]]
[[hestia]]
[[JKSMTRV001]]
[[LCLMTAV001]]
[[MDACTRV001]]
[[Mnemosyne]]
[[NXTCLDV001]]
[[RDSHSTV001]]
[[reactos]]
[[SMBPXYV001]]
[[SSOTSTV001]]
[[tekton]]
[[TheDude]]
[[TRUNASV001]]
[[VTLSVRV001]]
[[w10gldv001]]
[[W10TSTV002]]
[[WEBPXYV001]]

Automobiles

2022-04-13T01:01:57Z

Nick-local:

Oh cars. You can't live without them, and you don't want to need them.

Dad always wanted us to have our own cars and not share them. After I got my first job in 2003, Dad suggested that I get my own car. I was looking for a Jeep Wrangler but they were impossible to find for a good price. Turns out that a 1992 Camaro RS could be had for $3,562 on ebay. For seven years I tried to restomod this car, but an accident in 2010 totaled it. It's replacement was a 2010 Synergy Green Limited Edition Camaro that was just awful. In 2017, I bought a second 1992 Camaro RS for $6,200 and I've made as much progress with it as the first third gen. In 2018 or 19, the 2010 had a failure related to the timing chain and the cost of the repairs outweighed the value of the vehicle so I sold it then took the money and bought a 1998 Jeep Wrangler TJ that had everything wrong with it. It was a much better deal than the 2010 except for the used car dealer in Chicago essentially selling it as stolen. That was fun.

[[1992 Camaro]] 
[[2010 Camaro]] 
[[1992 Camaro II ]] 
[[1998 Jeep Wrangler]] 

As far as dream cars go, I only really had three but after playing a lot of Forza 3 in the early 2000s I gained an appreciate for the Lotus Exige Sport S.

[[Third Gen Camaro]] 
[[Jaguar XJ-220]] 
[[Sterling Kit Car]] 
[[Lotus Exige Sport S]]

Automobiles

2022-04-13T01:01:40Z

Nick-local: Created page with "Oh cars. You can't live without them, and you don't want to need them. Dad always wanted us to have our own cars and not share them. After I got my first job in 2003, Dad suggested that I get my own car. I was looking for a Jeep Wrangler but they were impossible to find for a good price. Turns out that a 1992 Camaro RS could be had for $3,562 on ebay. For seven years I tried to restomod this car, but an accident in 2010 totaled it. It's replacement was a 2010 Syne..."

Oh cars. You can't live without them, and you don't want to need them.

Dad always wanted us to have our own cars and not share them. After I got my first job in 2003, Dad suggested that I get my own car. I was looking for a Jeep Wrangler but they were impossible to find for a good price. Turns out that a 1992 Camaro RS could be had for $3,562 on ebay. For seven years I tried to restomod this car, but an accident in 2010 totaled it. It's replacement was a 2010 Synergy Green Limited Edition Camaro that was just awful. In 2017, I bought a second 1992 Camaro RS for $6,200 and I've made as much progress with it as the first third gen. In 2018 or 19, the 2010 had a failure related to the timing chain and the cost of the repairs outweighed the value of the vehicle so I sold it then took the money and bought a 1998 Jeep Wrangler TJ that had everything wrong with it. It was a much better deal than the 2010 except for the used car dealer in Chicago essentially selling it as stolen. That was fun.

[[1992 Camaro]] 
[[2010 Camaro]] 
[[1992 Camaro II ]] 
[[1998 Jeep Wrangler]] 

As far as dream cars go, I only really had three but after playing a lot of Forza 3 in the early 2000s I gained an appreciate for the Lotus Exige Sport S.

[[Third Gen Camaro]]
[[Jaguar XJ-220]]
[[Sterling Kit Car]]
[[Lotus Exige Sport S]]

Projects

2022-04-13T00:52:15Z

Nick-local: Created page with "Home Assistant - The Fight Never Ends NCC-1701D - Now and Soon to Be Camaro Upgrades - Love is blind, well it can't read bank statements anyway Computer Asset Tracking - I can barely build it, I doubt they'll show up VoIP / SMSoIP - I hate you too, Google "

[[Home Assistant - The Fight Never Ends]] 
[[NCC-1701D - Now and Soon to Be]] 
[[Camaro Upgrades - Love is blind, well it can't read bank statements anyway]] 
[[Computer Asset Tracking - I can barely build it, I doubt they'll show up]] 
[[VoIP / SMSoIP - I hate you too, Google]]

Tractors

2022-04-13T00:45:20Z

Nick-local:

I've always had a strong like for antique farm equipment, mostly stuff owned by my Grandfather when I was young.

==History==
I don't know the date, but the first tractor in the Wells family was a John Deere L purchased by my Great-Grandfather W.F. Wells when my Grandfather was young. In addition to being used for every task on the family farm, my Grandfather would also plow victory gardens for neighbors with it throughout the war. When he got married and moved to what I think of as the family farm, the L came with him. He told me that it took so long to plow his 60 tillable acres with the one-bottom plow that by the time he'd finished, weeds were growing on the ground where he'd started. He continued this way for several years before deciding to improve his life.

Around the 1950s, inspired by his father's tales of old Hart-Parr machines in Colorado, he bought a Hart-Parr Oliver 70 and plow for which he paid $950. I believe this was the best $950 ever spent in the history of mankind as the tractor never required rebuilding and always lent itself to whatever adaptation was required to make life work on the farm. Life wasn't all sunshine and rainbows and it needed repair often. He even showed me a tool he made to replace the valve guides without removing the head. My dad and uncles occasional remember performing field work with this tractor.

The next working tractor purchased was an Oliver 77 which amused Grandpa because his 70 seemed to have an advantage in the transmission because "I could walk right up to it while plowing with that old 70." The shop where Grandpa worked had a Ford 9N for lawn maintenance purposes that eventually found its way to the farm. At some point, another 77 was purchased that was assumed to be "supered" because it out-pulled the earlier 77. Eventually, a Minneapolis Moline R was brought to the farm, then a Farmall Cub. I remember playing on the derlict 70 and R as though they were jungle gyms with my brothers as kids.

Eventually, in trade for work restoring my Great Uncle's Allis Chalmers WD45, my Grandfather received an Oliver 88. It was in rough shape thanks to my Great Uncle's driving it home from auction and the engine setting up in the process. Grandpa restored it, supered it, and modified it to have the hydraulic system from a later series tractor. He also added a hydraulic hitch and front-end loader from the first 77 which had inherited the loader from the 70. The 88 truly replaced the old 70, I remember harvesting oats for my aunt using the 88 and a pull-behind combine that my grandfather hated.

Grandpa added an Oliver 60 row crop, standard 60, styled 70 row crop, an OC-6, Super 55 and Super 77 row crop, and a John Deere LA and B to his collection. A Minneapolis Moline UTU came from an old employee and the R was traded to my uncle for a ZTU. My grandfather was able to fully restore the row crop 60 fully, the two John Deere Ls, and the styled 70 mechanically before becoming to ill to continue. I inherited the 88, all three 77s, both 60s, the OC-6, the ZTU, the Cub, and the LA in 2021.

[[Oliver 88]] 
[[Oliver 77 Super Diesel]] 
[[Oliver 77 "Super"]] 
[[Oliver 77 "Old Smokey"]] 
[[Oliver OC-6]] 
[[Oliver 60 Row Crop]] 
[[Oliver 60 Standard]] 
[[Minneapolis Moline ZTU]] 
[[John Deere 40C]] 
[[John Deere LA]] 
[[Farmall Cub]]

Tractors

2022-04-13T00:44:46Z

Nick-local:

I've always had a strong like for antique farm equipment, mostly stuff owned by my Grandfather when I was young.

==History==
I don't know the date, but the first tractor in the Wells family was a John Deere L purchased by my Great-Grandfather W.F. Wells when my Grandfather was young. In addition to being used for every task on the family farm, my Grandfather would also plow victory gardens for neighbors with it throughout the war. When he got married and moved to what I think of as the family farm, the L came with him. He told me that it took so long to plow his 60 tillable acres with the one-bottom plow that by the time he'd finished, weeds were growing on the ground where he'd started. He continued this way for several years before deciding to improve his life.

Around the 1950s, inspired by his father's tales of old Hart-Parr machines in Colorado, he bought a Hart-Parr Oliver 70 and plow for which he paid $950. I believe this was the best $950 ever spent in the history of mankind as the tractor never required rebuilding and always lent itself to whatever adaptation was required to make life work on the farm. Life wasn't all sunshine and rainbows and it needed repair often. He even showed me a tool he made to replace the valve guides without removing the head. My dad and uncles occasional remember performing field work with this tractor.

The next working tractor purchased was an Oliver 77 which amused Grandpa because his 70 seemed to have an advantage in the transmission because "I could walk right up to it while plowing with that old 70." The shop where Grandpa worked had a Ford 9N for lawn maintenance purposes that eventually found its way to the farm. At some point, another 77 was purchased that was assumed to be "supered" because it out-pulled the earlier 77. Eventually, a Minneapolis Moline R was brought to the farm, then a Farmall Cub. I remember playing on the derlict 70 and R as though they were jungle gyms with my brothers as kids.

Eventually, in trade for work restoring my Great Uncle's Allis Chalmers WD45, my Grandfather received an Oliver 88. It was in rough shape thanks to my Great Uncle's driving it home from auction and the engine setting up in the process. Grandpa restored it, supered it, and modified it to have the hydraulic system from a later series tractor. He also added a hydraulic hitch and front-end loader from the first 77 which had inherited the loader from the 70. The 88 truly replaced the old 70, I remember harvesting oats for my aunt using the 88 and a pull-behind combine that my grandfather hated.

Grandpa added an Oliver 60 row crop, standard 60, styled 70 row crop, an OC-6, Super 55 and Super 77 row crop, and a John Deere LA and B to his collection. A Minneapolis Moline UTU came from an old employee and the R was traded to my uncle for a ZTU. My grandfather was able to fully restore the row crop 60 fully, the two John Deere Ls, and the styled 70 mechanically before becoming to ill to continue. I inherited the 88, all three 77s, both 60s, the OC-6, the ZTU, the Cub, and the LA in 2021.

[[Oliver 88]]
[[Oliver 77 Super Diesel]]
[[Oliver 77 "Super"]]
[[Oliver 77 "Old Smokey"]]
[[Oliver OC-6]]
[[Oliver 60 Row Crop]]
[[Oliver 60 Standard]]
[[Minneapolis Moline ZTU]]
[[John Deere 40C]]
[[John Deere LA]]
[[Farmall Cub]]

Tractors

2022-04-12T21:38:21Z

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Tractors

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Nick-local: Created page with "{{Short description|Fertile Obsession}} I've always had a strong like for antique farm equipment, mostly stuff owned by my Grandfather when I was young. ==History== I don't know the date, but the first tractor in the Wells family was a John Deere L purchased by my Great-Grandfather W.F. Wells when my Grandfather was young. In addition to being used for every task on the family farm, my Grandfather would also plow victory gardens for neighbors with it throughout the wa..."

{{Short description|Fertile Obsession}}

I've always had a strong like for antique farm equipment, mostly stuff owned by my Grandfather when I was young.

==History==
I don't know the date, but the first tractor in the Wells family was a John Deere L purchased by my Great-Grandfather W.F. Wells when my Grandfather was young. In addition to being used for every task on the family farm, my Grandfather would also plow victory gardens for neighbors with it throughout the war. When he got married and moved to what I think of as the family farm, the L came with him. He told me that it took so long to plow his 60 tillable acres with the one-bottom plow that by the time he'd finished, weeds were growing on the ground where he'd started. He continued this way for several years before deciding to improve his life.

Around the 1950s, inspired by his father's tales of old Hart-Parr machines in Colorado, he bought a Hart-Parr Oliver 70 and plow for which he paid $950. I believe this was the best $950 ever spent in the history of mankind as the tractor never required rebuilding and always lent itself to whatever adaptation was required to make life work on the farm. Life wasn't all sunshine and rainbows and it needed repair often. He even showed me a tool he made to replace the valve guides without removing the head.

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2022-04-12T20:46:14Z

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2022-04-12T19:24:50Z

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