Well it finally happened.
My brother borrowed a trailer from work with removable fenders. My dad had a plate on the front of his Oliver 88 Standard to push/pull with so we nabbed that with the plan of pushing the 77 on the borrowed tiltbed trailer backwards. Fun discovery, 77 front nose is totally different so that didn't work at all. So we pushed it on and got it as close the axles as we could and took the backroads home. My brother reported about 45mph was about all he could stand.
I hauled home dad's SC Case basketcase at the same time with dad's trailer. It has been sitting the weeds forever waiting for somebody to make time for it, dad isn't sure what he is going to do with it at this point but he didn't want his brother to scrap it on him.
I've hauled uglier things but I really can't remember when...
It fought tooth and nail getting on the trailer, actually had to load it twice because it kept wanting to go right because of the rear tire situation. Once on it hauled like a dream though.
And then the Oliver... three tires hold air and one rear holds air for about 5 minutes so we had to work fast. That yellow harbor freight bubble aired it up twice, I was impressed.
The hole in the tire was not hard to find...
I forgot how sleek they look from the cockpit.
This was sad, I NEVER remember this tractor leaving the farm. It was grandpa's #2 tractor and did everything that didn't need a 3pt (mainly ran the rotobaler). Watching it ride away on the trailer just kinda cemented the changes that are coming even though it was headed to my house.
And it is home...
My son (who happens to be named Oliver and not for the tractor company btw) seems to approve.
Tugged it off the trailer with the ol' '45 and parked the two AGCO brothers together.
Immediate plans... I need to get the rear tire replaced and get the engine broke loose. We found the carb in the garage so I have all the parts to make it run minus fuel and radiator caps which somebody swiped. Hopefully someday Oliver might be interested in restoring it for FFA or something, I am going to save the cosmetic stuff for him. My brother and I were chuckling, we don't think the paint has faded a bit since we were kids, minus the lichen it looks exactly the same colorwise as we remember it in the 90's... and really I am ok with it staying like that for now.