Installing an Original Oliver Hillside Hitch On My Oliver 66 Tractor
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2024
- In this video we'll be installing an original Oliver brand hillside hitch onto my Oliver 66 tractor I bought this past summer. This hillside hitch is hydraulic and is used to move the drawbar from side to side, mainly for situations in which you're working on the side of a hill and need to move the drawbar to compensate.
That's a neat accessory. Now for a plowing video this spring.
Well, I don't have a plow small enough for the 66, but you will definitely see the hillside hitch used next summer. Thanks for stopping by.
I got one field on this little farm where that particular style hitch would actually come in very useful. Thanks for sharing this with us Charlie. 🙂☕
A lot of guys make their own hillside hitch. They do come in handy at times. My 4 bottom IH 720 plow I use on the big tractor has the hillside hitch built in, which is also handy.
Never good when you’re on the side hill and whatever you’re pulling ends up beside you 😂
Ain't that the truth! 😄😄😄😄😄
Awesome video and project Charlie, in fact it is the first time I ever seen such a hitch in action, very special for me, thanks my friend
Glad you enjoyed it, Jan. I think it was a good addition to the tractor. Thanks for watching and commenting.
That’ll work it will ! Thanks for sharing, enjoyed watching!
Thanks Cousin Scott! i think it will be very useful. Glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for supporting my channel, as always.
That’s pretty neat. Before my grandfather bought our Powershift 4020 in the mid 70s it was a potato tractor. It pulled a harvester and apparently had a hydraulic drawbar similar to this. Everything is gone now except the tab welded to the drawbar with the hole in it for the cylinder. Would’ve been a neat setup to see.
I would have liked to have seen the potato harvester. It's sad when things change from what you remember. Thanks for stopping by.
That is awesome Mr Charlie!! Had no idea how that was gonna mount until you started explaining it!! Man that really could make a fiffet for sure on a hill!! Pretty wild Joe found one of those for you!! I really enjoy the how to videos of you will, and I am looking fwd to seeing it in action!! Thank you very much Mr Charlie, for bringing us along!! You did a great job on the install!! 😁😁👍👍
Thanks, Nelson. You will definitely see video of it working next summer when I'm tedding and raking hay. Not a very hard install. I am grateful to Joe. He has an incredible supply of used parts and is actually going to supply me with another of these hitches for my Oliver Super 88. Thank you, my friend, for being a faithful supporter. I'm glad you think my videos have some value.
@@pagrainfarmer Yes sir!!!
I should learn to proof read each comment before posting them. If someone didn't know better, they would think a 2 year old typed most of my comments. 🤦🤦 I am sorry for such awful Grammer and use of the English language Mr Charlie 🤦🤦🤦😳😳
@@Pennies_on_the_dollar You have no reason to apologize or feel bad. I am always pleased to get a message from you and no matter how you write it, the message always comes across, and that's what's important.
@@pagrainfarmer Thank you very much for that Mr Charlie!!!
Yay! I was hoping when you texted that you made a video of it!!
Glad you liked it. Joe's supposed to sell me another one for my Super 88. The same hitch fits basically all the fleetlines and supers. Probably the 3-digits too, but not sure on that. Thanks for stopping by, Ross.
Pretty cool addition to the tractor...👍
Thank you! I'm really pleased to have been able to buy it and get it installed. It was a genuine option back when this tractor was manufactured.
Fascinating! Can’t wait to see it in use.
Well, It'll get used next summer for sure, and i'll be sure to get some video of it. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Charlie the hitch turned out great. It's amazing that a simple invention makes a world of difference. Great video and can't wait to see what you get into next
Thanks Matthew. I thought it was a nice addition to the tractor. And I think it will turn out being pretty handy. Thank you for being such a faithful supporter of my channel.
That's definitely cool. Dad used one in his plowing competitions.
Is it still on the super 88?
@@rosstheoliverman no, but I have 2 of them around here, one that is NOS.
@@ThatOliverGuyChris might have to have a plowing contest reenactment….
@@rosstheoliverman I've been thinking the same thing.
@@ThatOliverGuyChris You guys need to come out here to western PA and do your competitions here on these hills and contour strips. You might find it interesting (and challenging).
I can honestly say I’ve never heard of one of those before but I was pretty cool learning about it and I’m glad your project turned out the way it did I have a sneaking suspicion that will see some video of that Hitch in the future
Yes, I think you can count on seeing that hitch in videos next summer, for sure. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Do you have a video of that hitch working on your 1650? Great info video.
No, but that is an idea for a future video. Thanks for watching and commenting, Robb.
I've seen pictures of these hitches before but have never seen one till now and I can really see how it works and why they would be needed in hilly country like you have. I had one field I could never get plowed right because it was a curved field and if I had a hitch like that it would have made a big difference in the way the plow worked. Pretty slick I got to say and a great addition to the tractor for sure. Bandit
With our hills, a hillside hitch makes a big difference in plowing. I use a semi-mounted International 720 plow I bought from Joe's son Ben. Obviously a hitch like I put on the 66 wouldn't work, but Ben built a hill side hitch into the plow itself using a hydraulic cylinder and the plate on the plow that the 2 lift arms attach too. On steep hills, you can lose over a foot of width due to the plow going down hill, or take a foot's worth of too much width if sloped the other way. That hillside hitch allows you to make constant adjustments which really helps. My dad had built a hillside hitch for the drawbar of that Oliver 1650 I have, and it was nice for plowing with the drag-type Oliver plow I had before the semi-mount. I'll bet a farmer came up with the original idea. Thanks for stopping by, my friend.
@@pagrainfarmer The only tractor I ever plowed with that plowing on a curve wasnt a problem was an AC WD with an AC mounted plow on it. You pulled just in front of the back tire underneath it and the first bottom was just behind the tire so plowing on a curve was never a problem unless it was a really tight curve and even then it wasnt bad but not ideal plowing for sure. I have no doubt in my mind a farmer came up with the idea as a farmer is the first to see the need for such a hitch in the first place, Engineers see things on paper but the farmer is in the real world and see what needs to happen in real time. A lot of people can use a product for what it is and cant see how it could be improved so it worked better and farmers are the same way but there are some who can look at and use something and modify it to work better. I guess I fit into that category cause I always come up with ways to use stuff for something else or change it so it works better, Kind of like putting an AC corn head on a JD combine and it working great . I used to love that magazine Farm Show that showed this kind of stuff cause it really showed the Enginuity of farmers building stuff they needed. I havent seen that magazine in years or even if they still put it out. Bandit
@@banditfarmer1900 Yeah, I've known a lot of farmers with a high degree of ingenuity - they could fix anything, modify what they had, and come up with solutions to problems they had. They aren't/weren't necessarily "book smart", but when it came to fixing or fabricating something, they could always get the job done. Give them a torch, grinder, and a welder, and they were ready to go.
@@pagrainfarmer I guess I could say I was lucky for the way I grew up and for the people I was around when I was younger. One uncle worked at GE and was a Tig Welder another uncle was a general welder another did plumbing and electrical work another was a carpenter by trade and I was around a lot of good mechanics and a lot of older farmers who had hogs cattle sheep as well as crops. I learned a lot from these guys being around and working with them. From general farm stuff to engine overhauls to building a barn or house and doing electrical and plumbing. Being on the farm you learn to be a jack of all trades and really you have to be or have very deep pockets to pay someone to do things for you. Well not having deep pockets myself I had to learn how to do as much as I can myself and got good at using what I had on hand . At this point I can say nothing I've built or welded has ever failed but I have fixed a lot of stuff over the years that others have already tried to fix and had to reweld or rebuild what they fixed. LOL Some of these were pretty comical fixes at best ! LOL I had 2 great uncles who were engineers that never went to school for it and they could build anything they wanted, School isnt everything, I know lot of people who are very book smart but have no commend sense what so ever or know how to do anything at all when it comes to real world stuff. I never went to collage cause I knew it wasnt for me, I'm more hands on kind of a guy that gets things done or fixed and moves on to the next thing. I know way to many people who went to collage and have degrees that never put what they went to school for to there working life, A lot of money spent for nothing. But looking back now I still wouldnt have gone to collage might have done a few things different but its still been a pretty good life so far. You are who you are from how you grew up the people you were around and what you were smart enough to learn along the way. I may not be rich but I'm comfortable and can do just about anything I want or build it and thats what life has taught me. What I've learned is all the stuff they didnt teach you in school ! Bandit
Hey Charlie I got your magnet today thank you but you didn’t put your return address on the envelope. If you go to my channel and want to email it to me
Will do!