Always enjoy watching these old tractors getting fixed and back to working. Good to see you get the Oliver 500 back on the road. Thanks for sharing. Have a good evening!
Nice to see the little 500 get some work time. I really like that little unit. I noticed while you were going down the road that the steering seems nice and tight. What a cream puff.
Great video Ross, I would agree with you that the Fiat is a more refined tractor than the David Brown but don't forget it's also much newer. I'm a new subscriber to your channel (from England) and I'm enjoying your videos. I subscribe to MolineDan, that's how I found out about you. All the best. Peter 🚜🇬🇧
The wheels on the tractor go round and round, "OOPS, the wheel has a square side so it does not go round and round very well." Ross, if you did not have tires to change your week would be boring. Cracks in the rubber, I have seen tractor tires used for years with cracks in the corners of the ribs. Only worry when the tube is starting to show. You have a lot of foreign tractors, British, Italian, Iowan, and you need a Nippon one to fill out your global tractor collection.
It would be very easy to talk me into collecting Tractors from all over the world. It’s cool to see how they arrived at building things. Sometimes they were very crudely made.
@@rosstheoliverman It sure would be neat to own one of those English single-cylinder diesel tractors that you had to insert a piece of burning wick into, then use a shotgun shell to fire it off. Even a German model made by Fendt where it had a dump bed up front. One could have a "Tractors of the World" museum.
They don't make good tire gauges anymore Ross, they're all junk. Now, as I've told you before, a flat tire is only flat on one side. :D On a serious note, when I was knee high to a grasshopper, my grand dad used to take some of my grand mother's blankets and stuff inside a front tire whenever he had a flat and just didn't have time to get a new tube or fix a tube. To be honest, one wouldn't think that would work but, if you stuff them full, it's just like the tire wasn't flat and you'd never ruin a tire either. I'm sure there's plenty of "old timers" that can vouch for that technical fix. I remember when you bought that sprayer tank, can you give more details on that tank? Honestly am in search for one myself but, not wanting to spend a lot of $$$ on one. A new tank to replace my current tank will cost almost 1k, as old as it is, not worth that much. Great video as always, cheers :)
That’s cool! I don’t think I’ve ever heard of stuffing blankets in a tire before! I don’t really remember the details on the tank myself, I would have to go back and watch the videos 😂. i’m pretty sure it came from Northern tool.
@@rosstheoliverman That's an old timers trick for tires back during the days of the depression. Just shows the ingenuity of what folks did way back then when times were bad and money... almost non existent. :)
English built David Brown with an American twist !! Oliver & White liked rebranding other Manufactures I guess was cheaper than building from the ground up.
You are right about the wheels. On the later versions they changed the wheels to a standard type. Used on most English tractors ford,Massey,Leyland and IH. The front axle may have changed as well. Thanks Kerry
