Tales From The Oliver Tractor Plant: Cliff And Dennis On The Foundry
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- Опубликовано: 10 апр 2024
- Cliff and Dennis were both electricians and got to see and participate in most if not all of the plant operations between the two of them in their years of service. Cliff is a little more camera shy so I only got a good picture of Dennis for this one.
Thank you for getting all these men on video before it’s too late.
Thanks for watching
Always love hearing stories from the people who built our favorite tractors
A lot more to come.
Amazing stories from the "Tractor builders"!
Yep.
Working in the foundry, he was my second job in manufacturing. I worked in a shakeout department, which is we knocked the castings out of the mold, and the mold was made in 2/2 on the machine that when you pack the sand in the mold, it would flip it over, and then you would join the two together. One guy working on a big casting or two man team working on a bigger casting each pack to sand in half of the mold
great video. Thanks for all your hard work.
There are more foundry guys coming up.
Thanks alot for you and everyone involved in these interviews. Very interesting on how the machines in America were built.The old timers always have the best stories.
For sure.
That was a great video. Very informative. Didn’t know Oliver made so many products for other companies. Goes to the high quality of the workers.
Neither did I.
Nice job that was really interesting, I don't know what the back end payoff for you is as far as YT is concerned but they are worth their weight in gold for the preservation of a very important part of American history.
I don’t care if I make anything from them. This is all about the history
@@Oliver66FarmBoy I know Ethan you're a good egg keep up the good work.
Ethan, very interesting information about the plant. Thanks for your time Michael
Thanks.
It's weird hearing about the 1968 tornado in Charles City. Happened on the 15th of May at around 4 PM and was a nasty F5. Just about 6 hours later a nasty F4 hit my hometown in Arkansas. Obviously I wasn't alive for it, but its still something I hear about quite a bit. To say that May 15-16 1968 was a Tornado Outbreak across the Midwest and Midsouth was an understatement.
They went farther north to.
Great video AGCO Corporation should hire you Your a great spokesperson for Oliver farm equipment your experience and knowledge would help AGCO Corporation become more successful also Hopefully you have a great spring seeding season Dave H Western Canada 🇨🇦
They don’t have much interest in history.
Great video
One of the greatest tragedies in American history is our de-industrialization whereby we willingly gave up our manufacturing base to China and other countries so we Americans could all take jobs of 'managers' and service providers while the rest of the world made stuff. Nothing wrong with managing and providing services (that is what I do), but you need a balance between manufacturing and services. When you look back at the industrial base of this country during and after WWII we did everything that nobody else could do. It is great that you have documented the efforts of the American workers who did what nobody else could do at Charles City. Please keep up the good work and don't let their work disappear unremarked and undocumented.
What I found interesting and sad is the exact same occurred at IH foundery in Louisville Ky. Late 70's early 80's over $200M (1B,2024) spent in modernization 2 automated mold lines,cnc upgrades,ect. Most equipment never ran before shut down. Millwrights dropped it onto rail cars and it went to Asia. Tools sold at auction went with my dad as a kid. Later worked with an electrician who worked there at that time who related similar stories.
Hey Ethan,,,great video. I've worked in a foundry in LA Crosse Wisconsin. Was a moulder for more than awhile . These boys got it.
Very interesting. Nice that you could make the journey and talk to a few people
Thanks
Pretty awesome video
Thanks.
I've worked at one of the foundry here in my town and there was a mold blow up due to it being to wet. I don't think anyone lost their lives but one guy did get burn pretty bad on his leg and feet.
Superheated steam and molten iron don’t play well.
Just like burning tires do it at night :-)
Had no clue
Someday the young will ask what's a Minneapolis Moline? What's an Oliver? Whats an Allis Chalmers?
It makes me so sad all of the machinery we ran in the 60s and 70s all gone all of the brands even John Deere isn’t really American
Thank corporate greed and politicians.
Ductile iron you can not weld
Replace that bulb.
I’m leaving it just for you.