DT Fan Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 Sale today close to home. Oliver man, had really nice stuff. Didn't take a lot of pictures but things were well taken care of. 1755 gas, $11,750. One owner machine. 770 gas wide front, $5500? One owner tractor. 770 gas NF with Oliver loader, $5500? Another one owner tractor! 550 gas, possibly stuck, $3100. I would kind of liked to have this one but with the luck I have had with stuck gas engines????? 546 Oliver 4-16 plow, $675. This thing was NICE! If it had been a 4-18 I would have been in the hunt. Osage barge wagon, $1500. Pretty nice wagon! Oliver barge wagon, $2150!! you don't see many of these and the price reflected that. Friend of mine was second place bidder. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobbyfarm Posted November 7, 2022 Share Posted November 7, 2022 Brought good money. Almost bought a 1655 once with an almost new loader but the loader hydraulics seemed too slow for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitty Posted November 7, 2022 Share Posted November 7, 2022 Very nice looking barge wagon. We got an undercarriage recently at a sale and it has a scissor hoist on it. I want to clean it up and see what brand hoist it is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Kirsch Posted November 7, 2022 Share Posted November 7, 2022 Two big differences between this and the other auction we've been discussing are: 1. The tractors are from the 1960's and 1970s vs. the 1940's and 1950's. They appeal to a younger generation who are in the "buy" phase of their collections. 2. The tractors are much much less common, dare I say rarer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DT Fan Posted November 7, 2022 Author Share Posted November 7, 2022 2 hours ago, Matt Kirsch said: Two big differences between this and the other auction we've been discussing are: 1. The tractors are from the 1960's and 1970s vs. the 1940's and 1950's. They appeal to a younger generation who are in the "buy" phase of their collections. 2. The tractors are much much less common, dare I say rarer. There were several factors that led to the strong prices I believe. No. 1, this stuff was really nice, well taken care of. No.2, pretty nice day for this time of year. No.3, we got three inches of rain Friday, no one in the field around here. No.4, Commodities prices are strong and yields pretty good too. I had a great time even though I didn't buy a thing. Talked to a lot of people I don't see very often. Couple of retiree's from work I hadn't seen in years. Some local tractor pullers that routinely clean my clock. Of course the local Oliver crowd was out in force! Really didn't expect any bargains, and there weren't any. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitty Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 14 hours ago, bitty said: Very nice looking barge wagon. We got an undercarriage recently at a sale and it has a scissor hoist on it. I want to clean it up and see what brand hoist it is Is this recognizable for what brand of hoist ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaredT Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 I'm betting its a Midwest, but its been a few years since I've seen one 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iowaboy1965 Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 Around here it seems like most are Midwest or same brand as what ever gear, probably most commonly deere? Not sure that logo looks quite right for midwest nor the linkage arrangement on the cyl. But who knows. I have a couple I bought years ago for $25 I need to dig them out and compare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitty Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 I've never seen or been around a barge box in person before Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DT Fan Posted November 8, 2022 Author Share Posted November 8, 2022 17 minutes ago, bitty said: I've never seen or been around a barge box in person before Bitty, that is hard to believe. Probably just because they are and have been since my youth, all over the place around here! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iowaboy1965 Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 All we had when I was a small kid. 2 barge boxes. Oh I forgot we had a small by today's standards feed/ grain cart but we didn't use it in the field till later years when yields increased. Later on we had a grain truck and another with a silage box we used some. Still later a semi and trailer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ihcubguy Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 I can believe what bitty is saying. The most common wagon around central PA has to be gravity wagons. I can't say seeing too many barge wagons around either. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nepoweshiekfarmalls Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 Midwest, All-Star, Stan-Hoist, Diamond, and McCormick hoists around central Iowa. Probably some I have forgotten. Red Tractor Fever collects wagons. He would be a good reference on hoists, frames and boxes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
766 Man Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 The neighbor back in the late 1960's had a dump wagon barge type. Other than that none around that I was aware of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nepoweshiekfarmalls Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 I have 6 hoist dump wagons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2+2love Posted November 9, 2022 Share Posted November 9, 2022 This is a sears that I fixed up this spring. I think it sat unused for 20 years. I hauled a lot of corn silage with it this spring. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirt_Floor_Poor Posted November 9, 2022 Share Posted November 9, 2022 Every consignment auction around here used to be loaded with wagons with hoists. I’m not sure where they all went. Most of them probably went for scrap. They are about like plows bigger than three bottoms now, can’t hardly give them away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art From Coleman Posted November 9, 2022 Share Posted November 9, 2022 What was the "advantage" of a flare-box over a barge box? My Dad had three, an Anthony steel barge box, a Heider, and a Dorman, all on Westendorf running gears. His brothers had flare boxes on Electric Wheel running gears, UNTIL the early 60's, when they bought four John Deere wooden barge boxes on John Deere gears. The barn/corn crib/overhead grain storage, had an old John Deere elevator permanently set in place. The portable elevator was a Kelly Ryan, which even my Dad admitted was NOT that great of an elevator. His brothers had a Kewanee. (Or was it a Stan-Hoist?) And, in a true sign of getting old, I cannot remember how he filled the one wooden grainery that was for soybeans and oats (when he raised oats), or, what he used to fill the corn crib on "The South Place", as I do not ever remember towing that Kelly-Ryan back and forth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iowaboy1965 Posted November 9, 2022 Share Posted November 9, 2022 3 hours ago, Art From Coleman said: What was the "advantage" of a flare-box over a barge box? Somebody correct me if I'm wrong but I always thought flare boxes came before barge boxes and as equipment got larger the need to haul more made a barge box a necessary? Barge box you have to clean out the corners when unloading. Flare box you don't usually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IH Forever Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 7 hours ago, iowaboy1965 said: Somebody correct me if I'm wrong but I always thought flare boxes came before barge boxes and as equipment got larger the need to haul more made a barge box a necessary? Barge box you have to clean out the corners when unloading. Flare box you don't usually. Yes the advantage to the flair box in my mind was easier clean out. Growing up Dad and Grandpa had 4 or 5 Stan Hoist flair boxes and Dad had 1 Sears barge box. With the barge box you could hold a little more but had to clean out the corners. These we’re all on Westendorf gears. I kept 1 of the Stan Hoist flair boxes when Dad sold them. Just taking up she’d space but I hated to see them all go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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