My dad bought a 2-70 brand new in 1976. I was 10 years old at the time. I still use it to this day and I'm 58 now. It only has 1625 hours on it and runs as good now as it did almost 50 years ago. Great tractor.

I just bought a house built in 1948 in MN. I was looking through the attic and a copy of film with this title was in a red container. It was mailed from one of the sales reps from this tractor company. How cool to find it uploaded to watch! Thanks for helping solve the puzzle!

The White was the very best looking tractor ever made,it looked too good to put out in the field,with its two tone grey,silver,black,then trimmed out in chrome,very nice.

My Grandfather worked in the foundry in Charles City for many years. Every employee got screwed over so hard at the end of White Farm. Closing the factory killed Charles City.

We used to have a 4-270, 4-225, 4-180, 4-150, 2-180 2-155. Two 2-105 and a 1800, super 77, 2255 olivers. verry good tractors i love operating them

Just breaks my heart. A great, great heritage, ruined, and nothing left to show but the aging products of its hayday.

Ve y cool film. I love hearing actual factory workers talk. I knew many men like them, with accents so midwestern you could hardly understand them :)

I love these videos, but they genuinely ruin my whole day. Sad and devastated at what we've lost. The 2 dealers closest to me nowadays are a Yanmar and a Mahindra and I throw up in my mouth a little each time I drive by

I’ve got a 2-135 use it for spraying , planting and just about everything else. Great tractor. Great engine ( Hercules). Just doesn’t run out of power.

In the 70's I spent a lot hours in a White 2-180 with the cat 3208 V8 engine. We definitely had problems keeping the AC working in the TX heat, and the Cat engine blew up no less than three times in two years, other than that, I liked the Tractor.

I own a white 2-105 nice little tractor I really like it only thing I got against it is it's the roughest riding tractor I've ever owned but it's a work horse

Beyond sad. A fine example of superior Engineering and piss poor management from the time Sam White took over. Have a barn full that will whip the snot out of any comparable competitor of the day. If the CVT designed in 72 would have been pursued, there would be no Deere idiots anymore except at a show popping corn.

Love your video,own a 2-70

James Oliver started in the plow business in 1855, 18 years after John Deere. This isn't a who invented it or who is better, it is a point in history. Deere made the first self scouring plow. Oliver made chilled steel plows, which in certain soil was superior to conventional production methods. Oliver plows are quite good and are among the better ones built. Looking back, you could always tell when neighbors helped one another with different brand of plow anyways looking at the field they plowed. Some did a better job of setting theirs than others too.

My 2-135 is a 77, so it's probable these men built my tractor.

its sad the White tractor factory is now a big Parking lot in Charles City, Iowa

Example of Corporate Piracy raided Oliver Allis Chalmers, Minneapolis Moline and just to build their Heavy Road Truck Mfg....

The White man on the land lol

Good tractors could have done without the 3208 cat engine.

welcome to corporate america

"Our heritage is agriculture " yes but it's not ur heritage u stole it from Oliver

Where is there a white dealer in the United States?

3208 was a crap engine it was designed as a throwaway engine 'not designed to rebuild or reman

can't make tractors in this country can't make cars or trucks here. too much political correct&butt pirates