When I purchased a ten-year-old Oliver 2050, our agricultural equipment consisted of an IH Super W6 and Farmall 400. Unbelievably different performance and technology. Although I was told to purchase a 6x16 plow to use with that Oliver, it was immediately obvious that it could carry two additional bottoms. Three years after the release of my 2050, the 2255. It had to be a monster plowing the ground.

I started working for Schreiner Farm Equipment, the olivier/white dealer in Oxnard, California, in 1976. In order to create row crop 4x4s, we were taking 2-60s and changing them into the next size smaller and bigger. Build a gear box out of 3/4 plate 4 row roller chain to match the axle gear ratios, twist the rear axle housings down, and mount the large tires on the front of a 4x. In the year and a half I worked there we must have built 25 to 30 of these for the vegetable producers . One agriculture enterprise relocated this year, moving to Salinas/Oxnard, Arizona and Imperial Valley, California.

We would occasionally utilize my uncle John's 1850 on our farm. The day my brother was moldboard plowing in our back forty (the swamp) is one of my favorite tractor memories because all you could see was what looked like a brush fire above the treetops and one continuous cloud of black smoke. It was exquisite in every way! I genuinely miss that tractor. He ultimately exchanged it for a pretty rusty and ugly-looking F—d. The Oliver was ten times more powerful than the tractor it replaced. Uncle John made a horrible decision. Just saying.

Fantastic; I adore Olivers. We had an 1850 diesel tractor with fender tanks, and we adored it. When we had this tractor in the 1970s, we had bolt-on duals that were a lot of fun for me to install on my own (I only weighed about 145 pounds at the time). Instead of a chisel plow, we had a moldboard with four bottoms, a field cultivator, a disc, a cultimultcher, planters, and drills. Thanks for bringing back memories by displaying an 1850.

The only parts of the tractor that appear restored are the front cast grill and counterweights, which appear to have recently been painted. Even the back tires, which are extremely worn, still look fantastic. (Are those Goodyear dyna-torque bias-ply tires in the inside?). has the mandatory AM radio placed on the fender even now. The chisel plow is also in fantastic condition. You could have told us that this movie was shot in the middle of the 1970s if the video quality weren't so great. I had a great time watching this. Thanks!