Thank you for this great post. Makes me think about my father. He would have been 93 this year. Farmed all his life. I've followed in his footsteps. I feel as though I stand on the shoulders of a giant.
This was really cool ! I wonder what these people would think with people watching them 70 years later on cellphones and computers . Thank you so much for sharing !
This video might just be my favorite for 2022! I watch a lot of videos about oliver and farming, new and old. But this video reminded me of dad and a bunch of neighbors who told lots of stories about the canning factories during Oliver's glory days. The good, bad, and the funny. This video tripped a lot of memories. Thanks for the great video!
It’s great seeing all these old videos. It takes somebody who actually grew up using the equipment and being around it for that matter to appreciate this so much more. It’s such a great way to tell their stories, even though most of those people in the video probably thought that Grandpa was crazy for recording it at the time lol
😊😊 that was a te years ago when people made home made ice cream by the 5 and 10 gallon buckets when U still could go 2 the stores and get what U needed 2 do so alot of the old ice cream when I was a kid I don't even see anymore U could get ice cream by the tub and they use 2 have it in the stores 😊😊 OMG 5 10 2O24
Thanks for sharing. What a nice way to preserve a little piece of the past. It's so cool that you have this footage. I basically have nothing from the past of myself and ancestors farming - except for the video I've taken in this last year on my TH-cam channel. Thanks so much for sharing. Nice to see those Olivers out there plowing in their hayday.
Great video!! Stuff like this is getting more rare. Glad to see it being archived. The Steam and Gas show in Clarksville MI is one of the last in my immediate area and the guys who run it are not getting younger. Best video on YT Ive seen in quite a while. Thank you.
@@AnglesideFarm my buddies dad who is a Allis guy had his tractors there last year. Bloughs who own the saw mill west of downtown still bring their steam engines there. Last time I went my kids were in their early teens, hit and miss engines making ice cream, pumping well water, etc. Ox roast is the same time I believe. Im 5 miles north. August it seems.
@@AnglesideFarm yeah good deal. I didnt want to post names of members I know on this YT post. The Clarksville Steam and Gas show is alive and well. I may run into you over there, problem is usually the Saranac Bridgefest is the same time and since we live in Saranac that is usually where we end up…..
@@ThatOliverGuyChris I remember my parents when we were going somewhere, anywhere, they always were dressed very nice and us kids as well. Me,, being the youngest had to sit in the front seat, my two sisters in the back. My fondest memories are of me getting my ears washed with Spit and a Kleenex.
As i mentioned in another thread, these people lived through the depression. After years of dressing in used flour sacks, they weren't going anywhere without putting on some good clothes. It may have been hard times, but it made them better people in the long run.
What a wonderful time it was back in those days, seemed like everything was innocent and fresh. All the folks seems to be so courteous and well mannered. That 4240 Oliver plow looks nice, some of those pull types were used by my dad, but we did have three point hitch ones too. Good one Chris, liked it a lot, like those innocent times too. Thanks, I hope you have a great Sunday and rest of week too.
Thank you Chris for the remembrance of the days of my youth. Different areas but still the same type of activities. It is great you have videos with a family connection to look back in time. Thank you for the trip.
@@ThatOliverGuyChris Please do. My guess is that the slides will take much longer as each slide will bring back memories that require time to digest. Kind of like opening the foot locker that has been in the attic for years. Each item has a connection or the wondering why it was lovingly stored away in the foot locker.
HI 😊😊 I would like 2 say that I enjoy the old color movies of the old tractors and equipment from years ago it's 1S I haven't seen be 4 I only heard about I didn't see any diesel tractors yet they were brand new in the late 1940s most people were using gas or lp gas tractors and most diesel tractors had pony engines U would start them on gas and after they warmed up they changed over 2 diesel 😊😊 there was only a few teactors already made that was direct diesel they didn't use a pony engine and they didn't have glow plugs either they wasn't even thought 💭 😮 of yet it wasn't until later on then after that they were using block heaters 4 the engine and the oil pan 😊😊 OMG 5 10 2O24
Oliver had a diesel option in the model 80. There weren't many made, and it used a Buda diesel that started on diesel. In the early 1950s they had a sales program where they would buy your fuel for a time after purchase of a new Oliver Diesel. It was a great sales tool, and by 1955 Oliver had half of the diesel tractor market.
I spent many hours when I was a kid sitting on the axle watching the dirt from the plow rollover. Dad was plowing with the Oliver 770 something about watching the dirt roll over I could sit and watch that forever. Later when I got older I used Oliver super 77 and two bottom plow. Thanks Michael ☺️☺️☺️☺️
My only plowing experience, was driving the 77, while following dad on the 88. I could keep up, except in the clay sections. Most days I would run the dusk.
I really loved that video, thanks for sharing it with us. As i sat here watching it i started thinking about how far our AG equipment has progressed through the years. I remember my grandfather telling me about way back when they bought their first tractor with cultivators. He was cultivating cotton with a mule and walk behind cultivator. The local Farmall dealer wanted to bring out a C Farmall with cultivators to show how they could do two rows at a time. Well my great grandfather could not comprehend how cultivating two rows at the same time was even possible so he told the salesman, Ok bring her on out. Well they showed up with the tractor, unloaded it and pulled it out to the edge of the rows. They showed my grandfather and great grandfather how you adjust it to match your row width then they took off down the rows and my grandfather and great grandfather are leaned down and sighting that tractor as it cleaned both sides of two rows the picked up at the end and came back cleaning two more rows. When the driver got back to them and switched the tractor off, the salesman looked at my great grandfather and said, well what do you think. He turned to my grandfather and said, Son, take the mule back to the barn and put her away and then turned to the salesman and said, leave the tractor here and they signed the paper work on the hood of the tractor. I would have dearly loved to have been able to have talked to your dad and grandfather and heard their experiences of their years in the business and with farming as well.
Not that the video is super high quality (but damn well above average for a home movie of the day,) but the chisel plow appears to have done a pretty good job. I’m pleasantly surprised honestly. It doesn’t look very heavy
A video on how to properly set a plow would be something of interest as many of us “younger” farmers have never plowed with the adoption of minimum tillage And I’m in my mid 40’s
Thanks for sharing that Chris. What a treasure for you and your family to have this footage. I have a feeling if your dad and grandpa were living in todays world, they’d have a TH-cam channel too 😎.
Chris that is a cool video. They took such care in getting everything perfect for those plow competitions. Very cool that your father was so good at it. And I’m amazed at all the pagentry that went into it. That Mason show sure has grown since 1958. The young fella doing the 4-H handbook photo shoot, was he from the area and is he still alive? Thanks for taking the time to make this video.
He would have. All those short clips of the tractors driving by, I'm sure he was saving film. Now something the size of a fingernail can hold hours worth of high quality video.
It was a huge event back then. I have color slides from the 1960 nationals, and JFK and Nixon were both there campaigning. I wonder if Vegas had odds on the contest? 😂
Nice watching these old videos and seeing everyone dressed up to go somewhere. Now it seems a lot of people can’t get bothered to even get out of their pyjama pants to go out!! 😂. Them old timers were careful plowers, I’m more carefree. 😂. Neat to watch.
Thank you for this great post. Makes me think about my father. He would have been 93 this year. Farmed all his life. I've followed in his footsteps. I feel as though I stand on the shoulders of a giant.
This was really cool ! I wonder what these people would think with people watching them 70 years later on cellphones and computers . Thank you so much for sharing !
Thanks Chris great video of a bygone era. Brought back lots of memories much appreciated. Great bumper music that you added
What an awsome video. Such great memories for you and your family to have. Thanks for sharing, I very much enjoyed it.
Glad you enjoyed it
This video might just be my favorite for 2022! I watch a lot of videos about oliver and farming, new and old. But this video reminded me of dad and a bunch of neighbors who told lots of stories about the canning factories during Oliver's glory days. The good, bad, and the funny. This video tripped a lot of memories. Thanks for the great video!
Going back in time with these. Love to watch these old films.
It’s great seeing all these old videos. It takes somebody who actually grew up using the equipment and being around it for that matter to appreciate this so much more. It’s such a great way to tell their stories, even though most of those people in the video probably thought that Grandpa was crazy for recording it at the time lol
Great video. Interesting seeing the Porsche tractor in the World competition part.
That is some awesome videos of years and years ago thank you
Pretty cool to have these old movies. I’m happy enough to have the few old pictures they took.
😊😊 that was a te years ago when people made home made ice cream by the 5 and 10 gallon buckets when U still could go 2 the stores and get what U needed 2 do so alot of the old ice cream when I was a kid I don't even see anymore U could get ice cream by the tub and they use 2 have it in the stores 😊😊 OMG 5 10 2O24
Thanks for sharing. What a nice way to preserve a little piece of the past. It's so cool that you have this footage. I basically have nothing from the past of myself and ancestors farming - except for the video I've taken in this last year on my TH-cam channel. Thanks so much for sharing. Nice to see those Olivers out there plowing in their hayday.
Who knows what people will think of our videos in 70 - 80 years. "They actually drove the tractors back then, weird!"
Great video!! Stuff like this is getting more rare. Glad to see it being archived. The Steam and Gas show in Clarksville MI is one of the last in my immediate area and the guys who run it are not getting younger. Best video on YT Ive seen in quite a while. Thank you.
Curt I used to go to the Clarksville show, in fact I was a member. I didn’t know it was still going on.
@@AnglesideFarm my buddies dad who is a Allis guy had his tractors there last year. Bloughs who own the saw mill west of downtown still bring their steam engines there. Last time I went my kids were in their early teens, hit and miss engines making ice cream, pumping well water, etc. Ox roast is the same time I believe. Im 5 miles north. August it seems.
@@curtmcelvain1749 I need to head over to it next year. I’m near Charlotte so it’s not far away.
@@AnglesideFarm yeah good deal. I didnt want to post names of members I know on this YT post. The Clarksville Steam and Gas show is alive and well. I may run into you over there, problem is usually the Saranac Bridgefest is the same time and since we live in Saranac that is usually where we end up…..
Thanks for sharing Chris. Lot of emotions coming out watching people in a simpler time.
What impressed me is everyone dressed up to go watch dirt get turned.
@@ThatOliverGuyChris I remember my parents when we were going somewhere, anywhere, they always were dressed very nice and us kids as well.
Me,, being the youngest had to sit in the front seat, my two sisters in the back. My fondest memories are of me getting my ears washed with Spit and a Kleenex.
As i mentioned in another thread, these people lived through the depression. After years of dressing in used flour sacks, they weren't going anywhere without putting on some good clothes. It may have been hard times, but it made them better people in the long run.
What a wonderful time it was back in those days, seemed like everything was innocent and fresh. All the folks seems to be so courteous and well mannered. That 4240 Oliver plow looks nice, some of those pull types were used by my dad, but we did have three point hitch ones too. Good one Chris, liked it a lot, like those innocent times too. Thanks, I hope you have a great Sunday and rest of week too.
Thanks!
Thank you Chris for the remembrance of the days of my youth. Different areas but still the same type of activities. It is great you have videos with a family connection to look back in time. Thank you for the trip.
I'm glad grandpa was a shutterbug. Now to make a slide show from all those slides
@@ThatOliverGuyChris Please do.
My guess is that the slides will take much longer as each slide will bring back memories that require time to digest.
Kind of like opening the foot locker that has been in the attic for years. Each item has a connection or the wondering why it was lovingly stored away in the foot locker.
@@bigun447 the detail of the slides is much better. I even have one of JFK at the 1960 national plowing contest near Sioux Falls, SD.
wish it was longer now i have to go shovel snow lol
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HI 😊😊 I would like 2 say that I enjoy the old color movies of the old tractors and equipment from years ago it's 1S I haven't seen be 4 I only heard about I didn't see any diesel tractors yet they were brand new in the late 1940s most people were using gas or lp gas tractors and most diesel tractors had pony engines U would start them on gas and after they warmed up they changed over 2 diesel 😊😊 there was only a few teactors already made that was direct diesel they didn't use a pony engine and they didn't have glow plugs either they wasn't even thought 💭 😮 of yet it wasn't until later on then after that they were using block heaters 4 the engine and the oil pan 😊😊 OMG 5 10 2O24
Oliver had a diesel option in the model 80. There weren't many made, and it used a Buda diesel that started on diesel. In the early 1950s they had a sales program where they would buy your fuel for a time after purchase of a new Oliver Diesel. It was a great sales tool, and by 1955 Oliver had half of the diesel tractor market.
I spent many hours when I was a kid sitting on the axle watching the dirt from the plow rollover. Dad was plowing with the Oliver 770 something about watching the dirt roll over I could sit and watch that forever. Later when I got older I used Oliver super 77 and two bottom plow. Thanks Michael ☺️☺️☺️☺️
My only plowing experience, was driving the 77, while following dad on the 88. I could keep up, except in the clay sections. Most days I would run the dusk.
My grandpa used to talk about the neighborhood all getting together for threshing. I bet that was something to see. Cool video Chris.
Thanks Chirs, for sharing, always enjoy watching the ole video
Thanks for the video. I enjoyed watching. Also looking forward to the shop videos coming up again. Take care Chris.
Thanks for sharing funny how my furrows never turned out quite that straight 😊
Thank you Chris enjoy watching this. The good old days wish I could have been there in that time period.
I really loved that video, thanks for sharing it with us. As i sat here watching it i started thinking about how far our AG equipment has progressed through the years. I remember my grandfather telling me about way back when they bought their first tractor with cultivators. He was cultivating cotton with a mule and walk behind cultivator. The local Farmall dealer wanted to bring out a C Farmall with cultivators to show how they could do two rows at a time. Well my great grandfather could not comprehend how cultivating two rows at the same time was even possible so he told the salesman, Ok bring her on out. Well they showed up with the tractor, unloaded it and pulled it out to the edge of the rows. They showed my grandfather and great grandfather how you adjust it to match your row width then they took off down the rows and my grandfather and great grandfather are leaned down and sighting that tractor as it cleaned both sides of two rows the picked up at the end and came back cleaning two more rows. When the driver got back to them and switched the tractor off, the salesman looked at my great grandfather and said, well what do you think. He turned to my grandfather and said, Son, take the mule back to the barn and put her away and then turned to the salesman and said, leave the tractor here and they signed the paper work on the hood of the tractor. I would have dearly loved to have been able to have talked to your dad and grandfather and heard their experiences of their years in the business and with farming as well.
That generation saw some drastic changes. We see chage, but it's not like the wheel is replacing a hoof. What interesting times it must have been.
Awesome footage. Thanks for sharing
Really great to see such footage! Thanks for sharing, Chris.
Looked like Andy Griffith showed up at 21: 37. Thank you Sir
Thanks for sharing Chris! Nice to be able to look back in time.
Not that the video is super high quality (but damn well above average for a home movie of the day,) but the chisel plow appears to have done a pretty good job. I’m pleasantly surprised honestly. It doesn’t look very heavy
A video on how to properly set a plow would be something of interest as many of us “younger” farmers have never plowed with the adoption of minimum tillage
And I’m in my mid 40’s
I've thought about doing one. There are a few out there on youtube already, but each brand has its nuances.
That was awesome!! I really enjoyed to see the way things use to be
Thanks for sharing that Chris. What a treasure for you and your family to have this footage. I have a feeling if your dad and grandpa were living in todays world, they’d have a TH-cam channel too 😎.
Dad was a gadet guy. He'd probably have one for the dealership.
Love these!!
Chris that is a cool video. They took such care in getting everything perfect for those plow competitions. Very cool that your father was so good at it. And I’m amazed at all the pagentry that went into it.
That Mason show sure has grown since 1958.
The young fella doing the 4-H handbook photo shoot, was he from the area and is he still alive?
Thanks for taking the time to make this video.
Steve, that young guy is now a retired farmer that still lives in the area. I have a copy of the book as well.
@@ThatOliverGuyChris that’s pretty amazing.
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Nice video! It's pretty cool to see how things was done back in the day.
Your Grandpa would have really loved a GoPro and having his own TH-cam channel.
He would have. All those short clips of the tractors driving by, I'm sure he was saving film. Now something the size of a fingernail can hold hours worth of high quality video.
That was great! Do you suppose there was some wagering going on? They had everything from plow Queen to festive bunting!!
It was a huge event back then. I have color slides from the 1960 nationals, and JFK and Nixon were both there campaigning. I wonder if Vegas had odds on the contest? 😂
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Nice watching these old videos and seeing everyone dressed up to go somewhere. Now it seems a lot of people can’t get bothered to even get out of their pyjama pants to go out!! 😂. Them old timers were careful plowers, I’m more carefree. 😂. Neat to watch.
Those people lived through the depression. Being able to wear nice clothes meant something to them.