August’s featured photo was submitted by Bill Adams. This photo was chosen as a winner in our annual photo contest and will be featured in the 2019 Steiner catalog.
Joe Tarbet, a good friend of Bill’s that restored this Oliver 550, helped Bill start collecting and restoring antique tractors. Joe found this Oliver 550 in a very dilapidated condition at a cotton gin yard near Lamesa, Texas. In its last years it had retired from plowing and was used to pull cotton trailers around the gin. Bill watched Joe restore this Oliver 550 and several years later when Joe decided to liquidate his collection, Bill was fortunate to be able to buy it.
To view all of 2019 catalog contest winning photos, click here.
Rich says
I have a 550 Oliver tractor with a serial number 75 478-599. Can you help me with the year that it was manufactured. I cannot match this number with the list of serial numbers listed.
Thank you,
Rich
Alex Theodoroff says
Hi, Rich. Thanks for reaching out to us. I took a look, it seems that the number you gave us doesn’t match up with any serial numbers we have for an Oliver 550. The serial numbers we have on file for that tractor range from 60501 in 1958, to 259491 in 1975.