Oliver Heritage Issue #106

Oliver Heritage Issue #106 - Dec/Jan 2022

• Featuring: White 8900 Combine.  At a time when Axial flow combines were just hitting the market, not everyone was ready for such a big change or expense. The conventional combine was still the standard way of harvesting. In order to appease the market and the idea of “bigger is better,” White introduced their largest, most modern conventional machine yet – the 8900. The year was 1978.

• Cletrac Facts: Gyppo Logger, Part 2.  As the years progressed, a number of the men stayed on and became close to the family.

• SS United States & Oliver:  The SS United States hit the open waters in 1952. At 990’ long, she was larger than the Titanic! Costing $79.4 million to build in 1952, the ship was built to be the luxury liner of the day. How do you load a ship that size? With the help of Oliver, of course.

• A 2255 Dream:  Poplar Bluff, Missouri, is located 150 miles south of St. Louis and is home to Kenny and Helena Ruhl. Kenny was a farmer who raised corn, soybeans, and rice the first forty years of his working life.

• Ask the Oliver Mechanic: Question and answer with Larry Harsin.

• Another Oliver User:  Meet Bob Elliot from Hutchinson, Minnesota. He grew up on a small family farm near Balaton where his dad farmed with two Oliver Super 77 diesels.

• Spring Tooth Harrow: a  70-year-old spring tooth harrow still in use.