John Deere Pride around here
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I would guess most new stuff is all leased and you are stuck with dealer service for the warranty anyway.
https://www.hagerty.com/media/news/john-deere-loses-battle-in-right-to-repair-war/
https://www.hagerty.com/media/news/john-deere-loses-battle-in-right-to-repair-war/
I thought this was going to be about your weekly shower! Dodged that one - for now.
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I love the green and yellow and consider myself a John Deere fan boy. But, it's tough to retain my loyalty and I share the mixed sentiments with others above regarding the current JD.
John Deere and CaseIH (old Steiger plant) might be the only manufacturers left that can claim a few U.S. made models. Most "assemble" tractors here and of course they all use global parts.
Here's my workplace stable of small JD. Tractors sans a JD Gator and a few JD implements. Plus, a few action shots.
John Deere and CaseIH (old Steiger plant) might be the only manufacturers left that can claim a few U.S. made models. Most "assemble" tractors here and of course they all use global parts.
Here's my workplace stable of small JD. Tractors sans a JD Gator and a few JD implements. Plus, a few action shots.
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From reading it's the only Tractor manufacturer that is American owned and manufactured in the USA. Bobcat is owned by a South African company, not sure about New Holland after Ford Sold it. Case International Caterpillar tractors are owned by Fendt now aren't they?
I know next to nothing about farm equipment. What is the brand to buy if someone wanted to start a 1000 acre farm?
Porsche.
I think Mercedes-Benz stopped making their equal-size-wheel tractors in the '90s and is now selling just Unimogs for the same purpose. Of course, the Unimog was originally designed in the late '40s to do work on sloped terrain unsuitable for conventional tractors.
The construction company I left last year was going to stop buying Deere stuff. Its a very expensive and time consuming hassle to put a huge excavator on a low bed and take it 60+ miles to the dealer just to get the ecm cleared after replacing a sensor.
Here's my 1941 "B". Yes, you can still get the basic parts to keep in running from the dealer.
That is not a good graph. It doesn't split out what has been moved from the US to Mexico or elsewhere. The economy in 2002 was poor and they were still coming back up from a major layoff prior to 1997. If you looked at it over the last 50 to 75 years it would be way down.
Deere isn't all made in the US. They have a huge German Indian and Chinese manufacturing base. Several of their smaller implements are all made by someone else.
Bobcat is owned by Doosan which is South Korean.
Ford sold a controlling interest in Ford New Holland to Fiat in 1991. The name was licensed for 10 years. In 1999 Case IH was bought by Fiat and merged with New Holland.
There are no Caterpillar tractors anymore. Aggco bought the tractor line from Cat and renamed it Challenger. They also own Fednt, Massey Ferguson, and several others. Several names are have been consolidated and merged into different brands.
Our neighbor had the Trailfire, which I got to ride quite a bit.
With regard to JD....that's a interesting topic.
I grew up in Case country, I have no dog in the fight...other than my other neighbor is a retired Mechanical Engineer who spent his entire career in that industry. His brief tenure with JD was, his words, putrid.
Caseih and new holland are owned by Fiat.
