Oliver Heritage Issue #78- Digital Copy

Oliver Heritage Issue #78 Apr/May 2017 - Digital Copy

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• FEATURING: Oliver 900 Industrial. While many of the Industrial models in the Oliver line are nothing more than beefier models, the 900 is much, much more. PIeces and parts of a successful Ag tractor were moved around to put the operator in a different position, move weight, and change the entire schematic of the tractor. The result - a true brute. Feature tractor owner: Eugene Rosenberg - Orleans, IA.

• Oliver Model 500 Orchard and Grove Spra-Blast: A Blast from the Past! In an effort to keep up during the mid-1950s. Oliver introduced their newest, biggest sprayer - the Oliver Iron Age Model 500 Orchard Spra-Blast.

• The Haufler/Oliver Connection: The Haufler Equipment Company was started by Rudy Haufler in Comfort, TX, in 1940.

• Pictures from the Past: Tractors being shipped to More Bros., Hart-Parr distributors in Wimbledon and Fargo, ND.

• Cletrac Facts: Oliver OC-4A and OC-46A, Followed by the Oliver X-5 and X-56. By the late-1950s, the Oliver Corporation had let some of their competitors get a firm grip on the agriculture crawler tractor market. A letter dated December 26, 1956, written by S.W. White, Jr., Vice President, was sent to the dealer organization and titled, "IMPORTANT."

• Another Oliver User: Albert Usset - Rockford, MN.

• Schachtner Farms from Deer Park, WI.

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