Posted by rrlund on October 18, 2022 at 08:02:13 from (69.36.63.7):
Paul Simmer found this Oliver 600 near Suttons Bay Michigan. He told me about it on the Oliver forum. I told him I was interested, so he found out who owned it and got the owners contact info for me. The wife and I went up in August and bought it, got it home about 6 weeks ago. It's only the third 600 I've ever seen in my life.
I've worked on it a couple of Sundays and rainy days now. We were in Kentucky a few weeks ago and my brother in law wanted to go to an old tractor boneyard and look for parts. I didn't have much hope of finding anything, but by a stroke of luck, I found a seat for it. The cross box that the seat sits on had been chopped off on one end. I rebuilt that.
The fenders aren't correct as you can see. They're obviously off a Deere utility of some sort, but after I got them in against the cross box and got all the braces on, they look so close to original that I'm going to go ahead and use them. Yesterday morning, I took them to a fabricator who built some parts for one of my 500s. He's going to fill the holes where the headlight and taillight brackets went on the Deere since the Oliver had the headlights up front and the taillight on the bracket that I've built on the left fender, and build a flat spot on the top of each one where the flashers go on the original Oliver fenders.
There used to be a guy by the name of Kevin on the Oliver forum out in Washington who went by Oliver500WA. He made the new grill. I got that about two weeks ago. He did a beautiful job on that. The tractor was in an orchard and has under belly exhaust. There's a rubber plug that goes in the hole where the vertical muffler would have been. A guy in Ontario has one, but seems to have dropped off the face of the Earth since he told me he'd sell one to me. Glennster told me to Call Summit. I'll have to do that of the guy in Ontario doesn't get back to me.
I'm getting things whittled down. About all that I might have to get shipped from the UK now are the headlights, taillight and flashers. Everything else has been coming together.
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