Literature---1969 Oliver Better Farming Full Line Brochure. Pt 2 Farm Equipment

[CraigWis]

Here I have the second part of the 1969 Oliver Better Farming for Better Living Full Line Brochure
10 Scans of the Farming Equipment. It is a 48 page brochure so I only showed 10 scans of the tractors on Wednesday and 10 scans of some of the Equipment today
Looking at this Brochure I still own a 1550, 1650 Running Tractors - 543 Planter for Wild Life Food Plots - 1610 Tractor Loader on my 1550 - 5 & 83 Corn Pickers in my Equipment Grave Yard

 

[hoghollow]

Thank you for posting these. I have a 1650 and a 1655 tractors that are used almost daily for one thing or another.

 

[rrlund]

I had one of those flare boxes given to me last year. Has a new floor in it. You can read Oliver on the side yet. I need to find a light running gear for it so I can take it to a few shows.

 

[INCase]

I didn't realize Oliver had a cotton picker and a feed grinder. I presume someone else built them with Oliver name?

I have seen several late 60s equipment brochures of various brands that showed using a forage box for balers with bale throwers. I would think that would be a pain to climb in and unload them.

 

[rrlund]

I didn't realize Oliver had a cotton picker and a feed grinder. I presume someone else built them with Oliver name?

I have seen several late 60s equipment brochures of various brands that showed using a forage box for balers with bale throwers. I would think that would be a pain to climb in and unload them.

Oliver built their own cotton pickers. The grinders were outsourced. I was talking to a Texan a few years ago and he was telling me that the local Oliver dealer sold sixty of them in one year. He said Oliver had the only one what would pick the cotton in their area. He said Deere ended up with Oliver's design.

 

[DoubleR]

We had allot of Oliver in the 50s and 60s and I worked at the Oliver dealer a little in 1969. But this is the first time I've seen a feed grinder and never knew they made one. It doesn't look like it was manufactured by someone else and just painted Oliver green either. Although back in the day everyone around me took their feed to the local mill for grinding and mixing. Nobody owned their own grinder mixer.

 

[CraigWis]

We had allot of Oliver in the 50s and 60s and I worked at the Oliver dealer a little in 1969. But this is the first time I've seen a feed grinder and never knew they made one. It doesn't look like it was manufactured by someone else and just painted Oliver green either. Although back in the day everyone around me took their feed to the local mill for grinding and mixing. Nobody owned their own grinder mixer.

Wetmore from Oklahoma made some of the Grinder/Mixers
Here is one more scan out of that brochure showing Grinder/Mixer that could blow into a silo
A lot of Guys thought that the Self Propelled Forage Harvesters were made by FOX but Oliver keep going to Appleton Wi. and asking question about the FOX S.P. Chopper then Oliver made one of their own

 

[Timmycornpicker]

Wetmore from Oklahoma made some of the Grinder/Mixers
Here is one more scan out of that brochure showing Grinder/Mixer that could blow into a silo
A lot of Guys thought that the Self Propelled Forage Harvesters were made by FOX but Oliver keep going to Appleton Wi. and asking question about the FOX S.P. Chopper then Oliver made one of their own

I saw a Wetmore grinder blower that looked exactly like that Oliver 408 in a dairy farm liquidation sale junk row back around 2012. The little bit of paint left on it was an orangey color. It sticks in my mind because it's the only piece of Wetmore equipment I've ever seen in these parts.

 

[Lee-TX]

Oliver built their own cotton pickers. The grinders were outsourced. I was talking to a Texan a few years ago and he was telling me that the local Oliver dealer sold sixty of them in one year. He said Oliver had the only one what would pick the cotton in their area. He said Deere ended up with Oliver's design.

I live in the middle of cotton country in Ellis County Texas and during the 50s and the 60s the only stripper you saw was Oliver 2 row PTO powered pull type. Local dealer sold Oliver and AC tractors plus Gleaner combines. He sold very few AC Tractors, but was very competitive with the Olivers.

 

[rrlund]

Wetmore from Oklahoma made some of the Grinder/Mixers
Here is one more scan out of that brochure showing Grinder/Mixer that could blow into a silo
A lot of Guys thought that the Self Propelled Forage Harvesters were made by FOX but Oliver keep going to Appleton Wi. and asking question about the FOX S.P. Chopper then Oliver made one of their own

Yup, Oliver tried to buy Fox at one time. The owner was ready to sell, but said he'd only sell to somebody from Wisconsin and Oliver wasn't a Wisconsin company. Oliver built their choppers so that Fox heads would fit them, but they were all Oliver, SP and pull type. I believe the S.P. s were built on the 525 combine chasis.

 

[INCase]

Yup, Oliver tried to buy Fox at one time. The owner was ready to sell, but said he'd only sell to somebody from Wisconsin and Oliver wasn't a Wisconsin company. Oliver built their choppers so that Fox heads would fit them, but they were all Oliver, SP and pull type. I believe the S.P. s were built on the 525 combine chasis.

always wondered why Gehl didn't buy Fox. Gehl probably thought their units were superior so why bother????

 

[NY 986]

always wondered why Gehl didn't buy Fox. Gehl probably thought their units were superior so why bother????

Companies usually buy competition to gain market share. I'm thinking that Gehl would have thought that a Fox purchase would not help with that. The better question in my mind is why Allis Chalmers did not buy Fox? I can most likely answer my own question with they lacked the money or did not want to buy Fox. But Fox would have gained AC a high capacity 2 row or medium capacity 3 row chopper to get them into the early 1980's. AC's offerings on choppers did not offer much in the way of a high capacity chopper. I have gone on about this before here but the shallowing of the AC farm equipment line hurt them during the highly troubled 1980's with dealers desperate to get customers into their stores. Sure, a few dealers had New Holland or Gehl but most did not.