1957 Model Super 88 My Dad Bought New Christmas Week
At the age of 7, I remember one cold Saturday afternoon when we were butchering, this tractor got delivered. We farmed with mostly Oliver tractors: 70, 88, 88 diesel, Super 88, Super 66, 880, 1650, 1755, & 2-135 White. We had a couple of other strays. With the dealer just 2 1/2 miles from our farm, all our equipment was Oliver. This old Super 88 has about 14,000 hours on it. At one time it was our big tractor for our 400 acre farm. The 88 was later used for cultivating, planting and making hay. For 20 years of its life, it was hooked to a feed grinder, 400 hours a year. Now that I don’t farm any more, I have put a 3 point hitch on it to dig post holes for our construction business and on tractor rides.
Pictured with Joe Jung from Red Bud, Illinois, are his daughter Ellen (3rd generation), grandson Josh and granddaughter Riley (4th generation) and their dog Silver.
Ellen remembers driving Super through hay fields pulling wagons to pick up hay bales. Josh thinks it’s pretty cool to drive a tractor his great grandpa bought and his grandpa and mom still drove. Riley thinks that she should drive something smaller like the 66.
My wife remembers the day her and her sister came out to the farm to go sled riding down some hills. My dad got the Super 88 out of the shed and tied the long ropes to their sleds and away they went, doing tight circles and spins I don’t know who had more fun, the driver or the two girls. This got to be a tradition every time it snowed. ∆