Why Is This Oliver 880 Painted The Wrong Color? - Classic Tractor Fever
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- Опубліковано 11 січ 2019
- This 880 Oliver was painted mist green to help promote Oliver’s new helical cut gear transmission, but the farmers didn't care much for the color. Only about 250 of the model 880s were painted the mist green color, making them highly desirable for collectors. Ken Aschenbrenner and his family from Iowa are passionate about Oliver Tractors. Ken shares the story of his mist green 880 Oliver and how their passion for the hobby has brought their family closer together.
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Even if grandpa hadn’t seen it back in person he’s smiling up in heaven knowing that beauty is home where she belongs.
What a great story and I'm so glad this family was able to get "their tractor" back.
This is an example of real family value, simply an amazing story !!
About 4 years ago my buddy traded a horse for an Oliver 880. And it was mist green... had no clue that made a difference. We sold that thing in 4 hours for double what the previous owner was asking.
When I was a kid my dad had a small farm in Berkeley county WV. We had 2 Oliver 60's and 1 Oliver 88 my dad had bought to power the hay baler he had bought because the 88 had live pto where the 60's did not the 88 had 3 point hitch that was special designed for Oliver so dad bought a 3 bottom plow
Love that Mist Green. Great story
When I was a kid growing up on the farm we had an 880 the same color and I love that tractor we also had a Super 88 and super 77 and the 77 we always ran on the hay baler
These are the kind of people who make America great.
What a lovely story
Interesting and heart warming story. Had never heard of the mist green 880. We had two row crop 77 LP gas, a row crop 66 gasoline, a 77 diesel, 1800 diesel, 1850 diesel. Working son of a guns, they were.
What a great story. Thanks for sharing it.
What a neat story!
What a cool video! My dad bought me a 880 pedal tractor in 1960 from my uncle who was an Oliver dealer. I still have it and bought all the parts to restore it. I was doing a search to find out the proper color and found your video
Cool story. I live about 15 miles from their farm and had never heard of this tractor. Nice!
What an adventure
Wow that's a great story with a lot of feeling that must have been awesome shoot I got to dry my eyes
Hell only if I could find my grandpa's 44 Farmall B Culti-Vision. That was a pure beast.
What an awesome story!!
That teared me up a little!
Wow !! Nice ol gal
The story I heard about the 880 was that there was no way to tell the difference between and 880 and 770, so Oliver painted it another green. The first week they were paint different the workers went on strike and they weren't making tractors. The people at the dealerships hated the mist green. So when the strike ended and the tractors were being produced again they stopped painting the 880's mist green and only 252 were made that first week. I love how they found there families tractor, I hope to find my great-granddads John Deere MT he bought brand new.
We had an Oliver tractor in Florida, when I was a kid. it had a old timey front in loader on it. Not sure what exactly it was but it from the 1930s I think. Painted yellow like a Caterpillar. I wish I had it now.
Great story
I grew up about 15 miles north of Dysart
Great job, I'm sure your granddad is very proud of you !
You should put this story on KWWL news. I once lived in Waterloo on the old west side. Dysart is not far away.
That’s a classic🚜
Happy new day
Nice
You got your baby back. Well done.
Where were Oliver tractors made? Such a neat and exciting video of tracking down a family treasure!
I watched a video couple days ago on UA-cam about the Oliver tractors and where they was made the company had a different name at first then change to Oliver and made the farm equipment if you type in Oliver tractors in the search bar it may come up
Oliver was made in Charles City Iowa. Certain models like the Super 44 were made in South Bend IN with other implements
@@samaikens4816 if you follow specifically the tractors you have Oliver acquiring Hart-Parr in Charles City and through that merger designing the Oliver. Eventually as you hit the 1960s White buys Oliver, makes Oliver and white tractors, then acquires cockshutt and Minneapolis moline and in some years you could buy the same tractor in 3 colors...
@@pbgd3 very few minnies if any direct crossed, lots of hybriding by WMC though. Oliver and Cockshutt, whole different story lots of crossovers including the Fiats painted both red and green. Great points, thanks
Here in Canada, we also had Oliver tractors, but the two " Big Bummers " were Massey - Ferguson and John Deere tractors . I like all old tractors ! !
I love it when family tractors come back great story great history
Very cool
Dysart Iowa? I grew up about 10 minutes from there in Garrison Iowa, neat stuff
I grew up south of Waterloo near a crossroads called Eagle Center.
The farm i worked on had a 1600 1650 1800 2150 and 2 2255's 1650 cockshaw 3 whites 4-150 4-180 4-210 they were easy to work on
I like it
RIP Grandpa
That’s a great story. Too bad Oliver and MM went away. They were both great tractors. My option better than IH and JD in the 50s
I remember the old Cockshutt tractor I learned to drive on; can't recall seeing another one since. I'm now in my 50's.
Oliver, Moline and Cockshutt went away thanks to White Motors buying them to raise the cash to keep them selves in business. Later on they went after and failed to get Allis Chalmers.
@@billloomis4975 what? White bought them and kept them for over 10 years and merge them together finally combining the best aspects of both companies. White hit a little bit of a hard spot in sold out. Then that company sold out to another one who owned new idea, and then merge those two together. Allis-Chalmers around the same time, sold off its agricultural division to deutz. They merged into deutz-allis. The American management then bought out the company and turned it into AGCO who later on bought white- new idea in the 90s. Long story short, I don't recall white ever trying to buy Allis Chalmers
I like the color
And I thought only Cockshutt nuts were that dedicated!
Lucky you
You should have shown a picture of it as a hep.
Good video regardless.
Was it in the 40s had 3 different colors sent them to state fairs to input from the farmers and the green was the over all choice
Now don't get me wrong, I love Oliver. But, they never really updated too much from a mechanical design standpoint. The most that they did was make hydraulic over under Drive. Other than that, cosmetics, and power increase, the Oliver tractors were basically the same through the initial introduction of the six cylinders
Kent sounds alot like one of the roadkill characters
There's a tractor just down the street that's painted the same color
one of my brothers seems to have a thing for Oliver tractors, it may have something to do with our last name lol.
What, no before and after restoration pictures?
Is it because it’s light green
So was for sale
Build one in honor of grandpa
Oliver is green,how is it the wrong color
Does he wanna sell it?
but he can see the 880
Really,1959,I have a 1950 oliver 77,why did I put really
Watch the entire video and pay attention. They did a great job explaining all off it😨
I don’t get it
@@TNboy-xg3eq ok, oliver changed design of the 880 in 1959. They made a color change on the affected tractors, 880 helical gear transmissions. Nobody liked the color change. Today those early 880s are highly collectable. If they are found. Most were repainted darker green and are not easily identified until the lighter paint is found when being worked on or the serial number is found to be in the correct range. That is the entire story in a nutshell
Look carefully at the thumbnail for video the front tractor is painted the lighter color the back tractor is painted meadow green. Its not a huge difference but it is a different collor
Who cares about the color
Oliver best tractors ever built FACT