| Author | Message | ||
     Innis McDonell |
Does anyone have photo's of an Oliver 840 self propelled harvester? I've found a picture in an I&T magazine from 1969, and have just come across a picture of one with a cab on the www.toytractorshow.com website. If there's any info on these machines let me know. Thanks. | ||
| Chris Losey (Admin) |
I have a picture of one that was for sale earlier this year.  I don't have much info on these units. They were apparently made at the Shelbyville plant. And while Oliver built them, they were basically a copy of a Fox forage harvester. So much so that heads would interchange. They were only made for 2 years, and I would guess that there were less than 1000 units made. | ||
| Chris Losey (Admin) |
Just got some more info from a reliable source (BA Star) Drive train components,frame, rear axle, and operators platform were from combines. There were 92 Olivers, 9 built as Minnie Mo's, and 1 lone Cockshutt version. I think it is safe to say that they are rare. | ||
| Innis McDonell |
The I&T article (July 1968) also indicated those parts were pulled from the combine shelves. 92 of them you say, eh? | ||
| Canada GRant |
Now where is that cockshutt one? It takes about 5 big loads to fill my little silo , If I could open neighbours fields for silage , fill my silo , it would work ! MAybe ! Just have to talk Ross into forking it out !! [12 year old not going to happen] Aggrivation X feed value X "cost of" naa IF I find it I'll let you know !! |
