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Oliver 770 Brought Back to Life

04/08/2022 by ST 2 Comments

This Ollie was built in Charles City, Iowa and sent to Brighton, Michigan. It was then sent to a dealer in St Johns, Michigan who must have leased it to our Lake Odessa Canning Company where we assumed it remained for several years as my wife’s brother and their father purchased it somewhere in the mid to late 1960s.

Larry farmed with it up into the 1970s when he purchased a larger White. Their father did not want it sold so he bought it from his son and kept it for odd use around the farm. Before he passed away, he gave it to his daughter Kathy who I married.

The tractor was left in the upper area of the barn and pretty much remained until we decided we needed to get it running and bring it to our barn where we could fix her up. One thing turned into another,…..first front tires weather checked,…which means clean up the wheels (sandblasted and powder coating to get it down from the upper level of the barn). Cleaned gas delivery system, started her up,….we drove it to its new home.

Fall was setting in so we power washed it and parked it in our barn for more going over. Long story short,……I worked on it most of Winter 2019 and we could see it was now more of a restoration than simply getting it working. We started back in the Spring when COVID rolled in. Lots of phone calls and parts trips to several Oliver junkyards,…..sanding and painting,….gas tank renewal,…..new gauges, many hours wiring we eventually parked it in our yard to remove back wheels and tires,….THAT WAS A BIG EXPENSE! But now all new tires and powder coated wheels,…..NICE!

By the Clarksville Steam and Gas Show she was ready to make her way to visit the public. Grandson Ben Scobey drove her the 6 or so miles to the show and she sat for others to check her out. We still have a couple items to work on yet,…front axel bushings need replacing and the clutch could use some help. It has the Power Boost so that may be a major job.

Mike Scobey
Lake Odessa, Michigan

January Featured Photo

01/03/2022 by ST 5 Comments

1958 Oliver 880 sitting out waiting to run a generator if needed.

Photo by William Jay, of Seymour, Illinois
2022 Tractor Photo Contest Winner

Here is the story of my 1944 Cockshutt 60

01/19/2021 by ST 4 Comments

I grew up in an Oliver family, everywhere you looked we had Olivers running the family farm, guess you could say it was a family tradition. My first tractor restore was a 1944 Oliver 60, it was a tractor very similar to what my dad learned how to drive on, so I wanted to keep the family tradition going. I fell in love with the look of the Oliver 60, and then I discovered that there was another 60. A Canadian company called Cockshutt hired Oliver to make a few tractors for them, using the same factory and the same assembly line, using 95% of Oliver parts, and one of those tractors was the Cockshutt 60. There was just a few differences, like the axle housing and front strip on the grille that said Cockshutt instead of Oliver, these tractors were painted Cockshutt Red and the wheels were painted Cockshutt Yellow. The neatest thing was that the gauges still said Oliver on them and the Serial Tag said COCKSHUTT 60, built by The Oliver Farm Equipment Company, Charles City Iowa. I had to have one, so the search was on!

After a few years of searching, I kept falling short. You would think being from Southeast Minnesota, the state above where the tractors were built and the bordering state to Canada, it would be easy to find one, not so much. My search finally ended when I stumbled upon a Craigslist ad from Michigan, an old Cockshutt 60 on steel wheels. This tractor needed a lot of work, but when this was the only tractor I could find, I had to buy it and have it shipped to Minnesota. Seeing that an Oliver 60 is pretty much the same tractor, I also bought two Olivers for parts tractors, using all three to make one tractor.

This was a pretty neat project, I removed the steel wheels and added rubber wheels, added a 5 speed transmission,  replaced the missing pieces with either new parts or parts from the Oliver parts tractors.  I used as many as the original parts as I could. This is truly a “RED” Oliver, every parts book  that I would look up Cockshutt 60, it would tell me to see Oliver 60. This “Red” Oliver got completely rebuilt from front to back, top to bottom.

It took me longer to find the tractor than it did for me to restore it, I finished it in just over a year! When I take the tractor out, there are people that think I painted the Oliver the wrong color, think is it a Massey, an Avery, or even a Farmall, until I tell them the history of the tractor. I believe I have the only Cockshutt 60 in Southeast Minnesota, making it stand out from the rest. So whether it is a green or “Red” Oliver 60, the family tradition rolls on!!

Thanks for Reading!!

Mitch Paulson of Rushford, Minnesota

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09/07/2020 by ST Leave a Comment

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