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As I've said before, our collision center overlooks our corporation's scrap yard......first thing this morning out my back window it was sitting in the red circle. It's somewhere safer now.

What tractor has the nick name Oil-all-over? OLIVER My apologies to @oliver2-44 I will make it up to you right now. The Oliver Farm Equipment Company The Oliver Farm Equipment Company was an American farm equipment manufacturer from the 20th century. It was formed by the April 1, 1929 merger of four companies: American Seeding Machine Company of Richmond, Indiana; Oliver Chilled Plow Works of South Bend, Indiana; Hart-Parr Tractor Company of Charles City, Iowa; and Nichols and Shepard Company of Battle Creek, Michigan. By 1929, each of these companies had reached a point where continuing operations independently would not be feasible. For most of them, the market had some time earlier reached a saturation point, and in some instances, their machines were dated and rapidly approaching obsolescence. By uniting their various and somewhat diverse product lines into a single company, Oliver Farm Equipment immediately became a full-line manufacturer. On November 1, 1960, the White Motor Corporation of Cleveland, Ohio, purchased the Oliver Farm Equipment Company.  The American Seeding Machine Company was organized in 1903 from a merger of seven different manufacturers of grain drills, corn planters and other "seeding machines." The leading corporate component among the seven merged companies was the Superior Drill Company of Springfield, Ohio. Accordingly, the American Seeding Machine Company established its corporate headquarters at Springfield in the facilities formerly operated by the Superior Drill Company James Oliver started the Oliver Chilled Plow Works in 1853 In Mishawaka, Indiana where he worked in a foundry. He later bought into an already existing small foundry in South Bend, Ind. Plows with cast iron bottoms and moldboards had been successfully used by farmers and planters in the eastern states of the United States since the time of Thomas Jefferson. However, in the sticky soils of North Dakota and various other portions of the Midwest, the cast iron plows would not "scour"; that is, the sticky soil would cling to the plow, disrupting the flow of soil over the plow's surface, making plowing impossible. Thus, when settlement of North America moved over the Allegheny Mountains into the Midwest, there was a need for a new plow that would be able to scour in the soils of the Midwest. To allow a cast iron bottom to scour in sticky soil, various methods of heat treating for creating a hardened surface on the metal plow bottom had been attempted. All these processes failed because the hard surface created was very thin and would soon wear through to the soft iron under the heat-treated surface. James Oliver developed his sand casting process to include rapid chilling of the molten iron near the outside surface of the casting, which resulted in a bottom that had a thick hardened surface with far greater wearability than competing plow bottoms. In 1897, Charles Walter Hart and Charles H. Parrnames formed the Hart-Parr Gasoline Engine Company of Madison and in 1903 had successfully invented and built the first commercially successful “tractor” using a 2-cylinder gasoline engine, weighing in at 14,000 pounds. Hart and Parr is credited with having designed and built the first successful gasoline-powered tractor. In 1848, John Nichols opened a blacksmith shop in Battle Creek, Michigan.   In the blacksmith shop, John Nichols began making various farm tools for local farmers. He built his first thresher/separator in 1852.   The business was successful from the start, so successful that sometime in the 1850s he took on a partner by the name of David Shepard.   Together they formed a partnership known as Nichols, Shepard and Company which manufactured farm machinery, steam engines and mill machinery.   The first thresher/separator of small grains (largely wheat and oats) was developed in about 1831 by the Pitts brothers—Hiram and John Pitts of Buffalo, New York.   However, this early thresher, called the "ground hog," was quite unlike the conventional thresher/separators that developed since that time. For instance, the ground hog's separating unit was largely a slatted apron which pulled the grain across a screen. John Nichols and David Shepard realized that the apron style separator was not a technology that was going to work. Consequently, in 1857, the Nichols and Shepard Company developed the first "vibrator" separating unit for the small grain thresher. This vibrator-style of separator soon became universally adopted by all other thresher/separator manufacturers. The Nichols and Shepard Company received a patent from the United States government for their "Vibrator" grain separator on January 7, 1862. The company also obtained several other patents for advances in the thresher/separator technology and for original improvements in steam engine traction technology. During the 1920s, the Nichols and Shepard Company developed a successfully functioning corn picker. Following the acquisition of the Nichols and Shepard Company by the Oliver company. This corn picker became the direct ancestor of the famous Oliver corn picker.

A nose hair trimmer for @squonk ?

Thanks for the help so far, I now have a frame that will take a 2 piece transmission. here’s a 400 beside for comparison.

Excellent save. The top of that mowing deck looks fantastic.

Mid mount blades are cheap I got mine for $90 I'll go away now

This is my hands down favorite. Buckwheat. It works wonders for loosening up heavy clay soils as well as improving sand. It smothers weeds and doesn't allow them to reseed themselves. It's very easy to till in. The soft, hollow stems break down quickly and there's very minimal wrapping around the tines. You can let it bloom so the bees can get their fill but till it in before it seeds. If a few seeds get past you they pull very easily. I always did wide row planting and when a crop tuckered out I would broadcast some buckwheat over that section and lightly till it in. Unfortunately I no longer have a large garden. I haven't had a tiller since we moved back here and the critters would eat everything unless I did some serious deterrents like you guys mentioned. I like to plant specimen trees around the yard. I was about to give up since the deer would kill every one but I finally found a repellant that actually works and doesn't have to be reapplied every couple of weeks. I stumbled on to a product called Plantskydd. I started using it about 6 months ago and so far it's been doing its job.

Uh Oh I can tell @Sparky hasn't gotten any for a while! Even a snickers bar ain't gonna help him.

Great Thread !!! I learned a valuable lesson in about my middle age years -- what you do ( for a "job" ) is not who you are -- it's what you do. You could be a heart surgeon, a plumber, carpenter, truck driver, police officer, nurse, teacher or whatever - or maybe a wheel horse mechanic ?? Hopefully people have a wonderful satisfying work life for many years. But those "jobs" are what we "did"............ I learned an important perspective many years before I retired from my high profile leadership position -- therefore, I was well prepared after I retired for the "adjustment" to not be what I was during my career. I am constantly asked by people if i miss it? Meaning my career? My answer is ...I miss the people and those I worked with doing great team things with great results -- but most who ask that question to me they really are meaning... do I miss the high profile? The answer is "not really" !! I had a wonderful career and job with great satisfaction -- but it was what I did.. not who I was. So for those who have left careers and found greater or more fulfillment, and good friendships, and satisfaction with your new role or phase in life... I say good for you - - because your "job" was what you did - hopefully fun and rewarding. Now you get to do more of what makes you who you are... family time, volunteering, helping neighbors, being charitable, etc . ENJOY it !! We all know it goes by real fast !!

@Ed Kennell https://flylordsmag.com/biggest-chinook-ever-caught-in-patagonia/?utm_source=The+Flylords&utm_campaign=28ad9bf498-Newsletter+2%2F4%2F24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_985ec1d746-28ad9bf498-347915934 here you go ED , must have been some hook up / fight , Pete

Striped down a 181 for a shelf motor or for sale. What I think to be a service motor for off a 875 or 6 due to the color. Have not run the spec number yet. PTO pulley gonna be a stubborn one. Heat wrench is next.

Little inspiration here guy. This one lives today... Think to fail and you will ... think to succeed and you will.

Yeah, try to explain where all of those missing socks from the dryer go or all of those 10mm sockets??? Or, how any little spring can so easily disappear like magic and so quickly never to be found again! Has anyone ever actually found just a single sock, a 10mm socket or a little spring?

Seal is WH 5959 or CR

@JoeM local bone always has , the newer plastic / die cast junk , lots of vertical engines , even the wheels fail on those . that horse I got last summer , was total neglect , spent about 3 weeks on it , looked like it was sitting in a mulch pit , once running , woke it up with heavily treated gas in a gallon jug , dropped the " oil " that was in it , got it hot for a flush with 5-30 Castrol , fast idle , refill with 4 oz of rislone zinc , 5-30 castrol , no smoke or noise , carb bowl was grunge city , new lines , 2 filters , clean out tank . trans was nasty , refill with ATF fluid , road miles , new boot , flush was clean / clear , lucas , climbing gear oil , electrical , mess. sold it to a lawn maintenance guy , wanted it to tow boat trailers around , gave him the info on the better W/H bolt on hitches , he was amazed ! like living in a closet , looking thru a straw ! Pete

No apologies needed @953 nut My Oliver loader/backhoe is nicknamed “The Beast. When family members use it, I always remind them: Fill the hydraulic oil and check the diesel. I would say I should change its nickname to”Oil-All-Over” but I actually just ordered 2 new cylinders as part of the 11 that are on it. Now @Achto might object to Oil-All-Over his shiny family Olive tractor PS 953 I’m really enjoying your Tractor Trivia series.

I have run into "similar" at one of the local metal recyclers. I never give the vertical shaft ones a second look, but any WH or other brand, with a horizontal Kohler engine gets a thorough look over before I leave....

I’m still watching what and how I consume food. And drink. Sometimes I’m up, sometimes I’m down. I’ve hovered in the mid-170’s for a year now and is still feels great! Last night, Mrs. P told me they are doing a weight loss competition at her work, through June. In celebration of the spirit of competition, we went to the casino buffet for dinner I’m not in on the pot, but figured I’d eat like I was for a change! 3 plates of food, 2 desert plates, 2 desert bowls. I’ve got a food baby and it feels terrible! Honestly, I can’t believe I used to do this to myself on a regular basis at buffets and justified that I worked hard! It was never a thing to put away 2-3 big plates of food and a few deserts. So, with a little padding from last night’s splurge, today I am at 183.2. I haven’t done a multi-day fast since I completed my 3 day. I likely won’t start off with a bang again like I did last year. I’m still about 20 lbs less than I was before, so that is awesome. I’ll try to check in every Friday or so.

It's always dicey what these are worth. I paid 100 for a basket case but knew I could resto it for less than 100 +- but figured it would sell for 4-450 if I wanted to. They are somewhat in demand for us collectors. Still it's a crap shoot. Someone that really wants one to add to a collection would pay upwards of 350. When one looks at prices of what is demanded of just a mid mount blade 4-5 is a good deal.

If you have 21-0-0-24S also known as ammonium sulfate available to you where your at you can side dress or do a few applications of that throughout the growing season to start bringing it down. Has some nitrogen and sulfur in it

I had my soil tested last year. I figured I should see where it's at since it's been 5 years of the garden. I took samples to my county farm bureau. It was $23 cheaper for members and $20 to become a member so I joined and saved $3. Plus my dad was a dairy farmer for 1/2 his life and hobby Hereford beef farmer for the other 1/2 so I thought joining would make him proud. They do have some discounts at local stores and restaurants and do have good way to get locally grown and processed meat. Anyway, my soil was actually about 1/2 a point too neutral or base and they recommended adding elemental sulfer in the fall to get it a little more acidic. I heard it's more difficult to go from neutral to acidic than the other way. We shall see. I don't plan on testing for another 5 years or so. I also planted garlic in the fall and am trying to start a strawberry patch. Garlic is covered for the winter with fallen, mulched leaves and strawberries are covered with chopped ornamental tall grass that basically looks like straw after i run it through a chipper. It's been such a mild winter here except for those 5 days about 3 weeks ago that the garlic is starting to poke through the leaf mulch. I've had good luck in past years growing garlic this way, but if it hard freezes again I may lose some this year. For the rest of the garden, I planted 3 to 1 mix of winter rye grass and crimson clover. I've never really done cover crops before, but these are good nitrogen fixers and am hoping it does well for the soil. I will weed wack it probably 1 month or so before I plan on planting and and plow it under. Here's some pics from around the end of October. It did grow a little taller before the cold temps set in. An added winter bonus is I can look out my back window and see green when the rest of the lawn isn't so green.

I think I paid $2-300 for mine, I honestly don’t remember. It didn’t work, I knew that when I brought it. I took it apart and found it had a broken yoke in the wobble box. I welded it up and it is good to go. Leaks a little bit so I might reseal it or just fill it with cornhead grease. It took a little bit of adapting to make it work on my C-121 8-Speed but now it works fine. I have absolutely nothing to cut with it, it’s just one of those attachments as a Wheel Horse collector that I had to have.

I agree they are not very common in working condition and do fetch a good price. ( Top price if the buyer has a Gopher problem... )

The one I had trouble with was kinda like that. The rubber just wouldn't go into the tube right like it was swelled a bit or something. If that's what you have, I cured the problem by removing the plastic tube from the trans and using a step bit to ream some material off. Do just a little then test fit, little more each time. Rinse and repeat as necessary.

I found this going through some of my late Fathers tools. Not sure, but maybe a broken tap extractor? It says 5/16 on it. What say you?

Well years later and I’ve started back on the Horse. She still runs great

Trainsuhmashunn is out on the bench.

I enjoy the various threads - - learn alot -- but i especially enjoy the good nature banter between members -- A Friend of mine sent me a You Tube unrelated to tractors but seems a perfect video for me to think about -- as well as all of us Horse people -- It's a well known comedian from yester year, Allan King, which i am sure many will recall -- it's funny as expected ( if you like his type humor ) , but also seemed relevent to our golden years and our herds - plus relates to all the teasing on here about our family members ( spouses ) and our fondness ( addiction ) for our horse "hobby" - worth the few minutes to watch.. . hopefully the link works .. Bill https://biggeekdad.com/2011/05/survived-by-wife/

Yeah…the strap wrench I dug out of the box was worn out and I have a dedicated socket style for the truck. Half of mechanic-ing is improvisation, right?!

Dan/Jim: I got my second old style mid-grader blade for $50 in October! It’s a nice one.

You had to bring that up didn't you... Day after we're in the twin cities it pops up on CL.

Lol I think @Achto only paid 50...

I tried to save a 314-8 once at the scrap yard, but someone beat me to it. As of to make me feel better that I didn't get it, the scrap guy said the engine was blown up. He said he proved it by sticking a screwdriver in the spark plug hole, and nothing moved when he rotated the flywheel. That particular engine had the plug between the valves, but oh well. At least someone took it home. Congratulations on saving another one!

@76c12091520h yes in todays world , even the most basic form of maintenance is non existent , to me looks like a thorough functional check , and related service , oils / electrical , maybe even a penetrating oil wipe down , could easily turn that into , dollars , seat would be very easy , Pete

Good post. Ya know what I find interesting for my own personal reasons... having been through what I have in the last several years I've already experienced the 4 stages even though I'm 9 to 12 years away from retirement. I've had days and weeks when I feel great and I've had weeks and months when I started thinking I'd need to resign and go on SSI or Disability. ( lately I feel much better) If/when I ever do actually retire from full-time work I already have enough of a fulfilled time in life I'd just keep on truckin'... figuratively at that point, of course.

I watched an interesting fellow (retired) give a Ted talk on retirement recently. He stated there were 4 stages one goes through after retirement. Stage #1. The vacation stage - The freedom to do what you want, sleep as late as you want, etc. is much like a vacation...enjoy it. Stage #2 is the hard one when the vacation runs out, boredom may set in and one is faced with the loss of identity (associated with a career), questioning if one has value, etc. One wants to get through this one as fast as possible, as it can be depressing. Stage #3 is the exploration of what do I "want to do" with the I have left time that is fulfilling and brings me joy. Feel free to try things and don't be concerned if it doesn't pan out as it will eventually lead to stage #4. This is where one finds their place and purpose in retirement and it usually involves som "service to others". This can be the most rewarding part of retirement and to use his expression "wring the most out of retirement". Judging by the comments on this excellent thread many retired folks here have already found that sweet spot in the 4th stage. I am just retiring officially this year but have been seeing all 4 stages happening simultaneously.......probably due to being a non-conforming free spirit and entrepreneur all my life....

The deer must also pass this lesson down to their younguns. For many years, corn and soybeans were grown on the farm next to me and there were always deer in the fields. When the Amish bought it for a truck farm 6 years ago, the first spring he put up a single tape like electric wire about 3 ft. off the ground and placed a dab of peanut butter on the tape about every 4 ft. It was only up a couple months. I have never seen a deer in his fields of sweet corn, melons, cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower. The groundhogs required a different plan. He asked for my help and I removed around 20 every spring for the first 3 years he was here. Now I only trap 2-4 per year.

I consider myself to be very fortunate. I had a job that I hated but the pay was good enough that I was able to retire early enough to help others. My job wasn't my identity, it was just a path I followed to get to a place I love. I volunteered with Habitat for Humanities for about twelve years and the satisfaction I felt watching a person use a ramp to access their home safely or a new first time homeowner walking through the door of a house they helped build was overwhelming. I can't do the physical work anymore but I do have a couple of friends who's wives have recently passed away that I visit or have lunch with frequently because they need some conversation and companionship. That seems to help keep "the old man" away from their door.

I turned 71 in December. In my early twenties, I had a premonition that I would live to be 84 years old and die from lung problems. I have lived with that in the back of my mind ever since. I've not told anyone this-even my wife- until I write it this evening. I told my Sunday School Class this past Sunday that I have been fortunate that I have not been overnight in a hospital in over 50 years. (That was because my brother ran over my foot with his car.) I retired this past summer. After working 52 years most of them in construction, I felt the time had come to hang up my hammer. While unloading the tools and supplies out of my truck, I was somewhat overwhelmed with a feeling of loss/change. It was as if the "old man was loosing his identity/self worth." One of my points of change is that I've volunteered my experience and labor. I've converted a brand new motor home into a mobile unit that is used to go to towns in our area to help pregnant women. Now, I am helping rebuild a bathroom at a church office and awhile back, I lead a team to build a wheel chair ramp for a needy woman. I'm staying a busy as I want. I've never heard of the song "Don't let the old man in" until I watched it a few minutes ago on this thread. There's a good deal of truth to it and I'm convinced that hobbies such as wheel horse, model trains, music, camping, fishing and hunting, as well as the many others hobbies/interests that you all are involved in help keep "the old man out"

Just sayin'...

Unlike the rest of you I have become sweeter and kinder as I approach 60. If you’ve met me and you disagree … well prepare to have your dang Red Square account stomped on and deleted! RS is no place for anyone that disagrees with me ! Just messing! I’m feeling the effects of age, especially when I’m driving and some whippersnapper feels the need to tailgate or pass me at MACH-1.

Wait until you hit 75 years I will be 76 in June. You want have to worry about that anymore. You just set down and close your eyes and when you wake up you didn`t even know that you went to sleep and when you wake up you wonder where you have been.

And that is a good thing - you instill your family values on your children as they grow up, then step back to let them develope into the young adults they become. Each kid turns out differently. My point is you show them what is important, let them run their own game, and be there for them if their choices prove to be the wrong ones. Some kids get it, some take longer, and some don't get it at all.

She’s coming together.

The Lead Dismantler Technician pulled some stuff and did more degrungerizing.

have you any side on pictures of each side? - sorry to keep asking.... this is where I’m at