Re: Dad's tractors

Posted by dad's88 on April 14, 2007 at 08:27:08 from (205.188.116.14):

In Reply to: Dad's tractors posted by Eric Allen on April 13, 2007 at 23:44:22:

Man, I'm kind of getting washed away here. Big lump in my throat. Every farm kid that grew up on a family tractor can relate to this. My handle says it all, dad's88, in honor of the 1949 Oliver 88 diesel dad bought as a demonstrator with a #4 mounted cornpicker. I still have it and the 1957 Oliver Super 88 diesel that my uncle bought new which dad bought in 1964. The Super 88 is the tractor that I am most attached to because that is the one I rode on so much with dad while he plowed, cultivated, etc. I could not imagine life without them. When you grasp the steering wheel, you are holding what he held for so many thousands of hours. No way you could ever replace that feeling. Those old steering wheels are so worn they should really be replaced and I have two new old stock ones I have set aside for these tractors when I restore them. Still it's just the idea of changing them. Maybe I wont afterall.

The closest I came to losing a family tractor was when my brother sold his Oliver 1750 at a machinery sale in 1980. Watching that tractor go down the rode left an incredible hollow feeling in the pit of my stomach, sort of like when your girlfriend broke up with you. Fortunately we got it back in 1982 through the implement business my brother ran at the time. It's not leaving again as long as I've got anything to say about it!

My dad passed away in 2003 and I know he would have liked to have had back the 1935 Oliver Hart-Parr 18-28 that his dad bought new. That was the tractor that was around when he was a young man. Dad traded it in 1952 for the 88 diesel.

I wish there was some way you didn't have to go through this. Plaese show your mom all of these responses and have her listen to the song "DRIVE" by Alan Jackson. Maybe it will help her understand the connection you have with these tractors. I really hope things work out for you.

BLANE.

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