ID this Oliver plow

Farmall_S-MTA

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Northern Indiana
I recently purchased this Oliver plow. Can anyone ID it?
The seller didn't know what model it was. He did tell me it's been in his family since new and at one point they were farming 160 acres annually with it. He also believes that the wider tires are rare. I couldn't verify this. Also, the depth crank is rusted tight. Any ideas on how to get it loose without damaging anything? Lots of heat and penetrating lube?

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The sand wheels are an oddball option but I wouldn’t really call them rare. The hitch also isn’t supposed to double over backwards like that. It should be trapped to a limited up and down movement by that little cast piece on the drawbar so it will carry the tail of the plow when not in the ground. There’s 5 springs that make the trip mechanism work on those plows. If any of them are weak or broke it will not trip right. There’s a guy in Ohio that is having the springs re made.
 
The sand wheels are an oddball option but I wouldn’t really call them rare. The hitch also isn’t supposed to double over backwards like that. It should be trapped to a limited up and down movement by that little cast piece on the drawbar so it will carry the tail of the plow when not in the ground. There’s 5 springs that make the trip mechanism work on those plows. If any of them are weak or broke it will not trip right. There’s a guy in Ohio that is having the springs re made.
Thanks.
That’s interesting about hitch. I didn’t think it seemed right especially since it won’t get all the way flat when I fold it down. However, the seller made it sound like it had always been that way. So maybe it has been modified.
As for the trip, I can make it trip pulling it around in the barn, but I don’t know if that means it will work in the field.
 
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