I haven't taken time to post and it's raining out so here goes. I stumbled across a Oliver 2 row pull type 73-S in a shed out by West Branch, Ia. and was able to buy it. Previous owner helped me get it out of the shed it was in for 20 plus years. I borrowed a tire off of a guy in the tractor club I belong to to get it pulled home( about 50 miles). It was 1 week before our clubs working fall show. I washed it and greased and oiled the chains and turned it over a little bit and everything worked. I had to find 1 belt for it. I pulled it behind my 1850 68 miles up to Atkinson, Ill. to the show(3hours and 55 minutes). I was busy helping with the show, so Kevin Larkey, Jim Thurnau and John Swanson took it to the field on Saturday and ran it for a while. I finally got to run it for a wagon load on Sunday before it rained. I finally got it drove home and need to make shed room for it. Trying to figure out how to get it to Mt. Pleasant next June for the Oliver show. Chris
The corn was pretty wet, it needs some fairly dry corn to run thru to shine things up. But the corn in the wagon was pretty clean, it did shell some on the snapping rolls, but it wasn't designed for this high population corn today. We had it hooked up to a JD 70, but low was too fast, so they put it on a 770 and got along better. Then Sunday, I hooked onto it with my 1850 and ran it. It generated a lot of interest at the show, many people said they had never saw one before. Chris
-- Edited by super99 on Friday 23rd of October 2009 05:39:28 AM
That's one of those neat finds I usually just hear about! Glad to see you've got it and are using it. I hope to see you in Mt. Pleasant next year. Kurt
I got the Honor to run it before Chris did ! Yes it did a really good job for being in wet corn and not run for twenty years it did very well ! I ran it on just one row for 3-4 rounds to try and shine it up! Then put it on my 770 and low gear it did not bad ,but need to stop and let it clean out now and then. Chris got a GOOD find there!
Never saw one of those in these parts. Can the auger be swung out so a truck or wagon driving alongside can be filled?
It has a brace to hold the auger in place. If you made a new place to fasten the brace you probably could, but a truck would be rough because it goes so slow. This was the best pictuer I could find, and it doesn't show the auger that well. Chris
I had it hooked onto my JD 70 when they tried it out, said it was too fast in low gear, so they put Kevin's 770 on it and it handled it well, but still a little fast. I hooked it onto my 1850 just to get a slow enough speed to run. Corn was awful wet, dryer corn probably wouldn't have been any problem. Chris
