Straw Boss
Well-known Member
Someone posted a nice picture on Tractor Talk.
Got me to wondering why Case didn't make a 1660 pull-type.
A 1030 or 1200 would have handled it just fine.
No demand? Would it have cut into SP sales?
Not enough R & D money?
By the 1980s, didn't most brands make a pull-type out of their biggest SP machines?
Straight heads can only get so big on a pull-type and corn heads are not practical but
a smaller pickup head for the big wheat country from the Dakotas on up through Canada would
have been ideal sales territory for big capacity machines where not a lot of corn or straight
cutting is done. Fun to think about what could have been. Any thoughts?
Got me to wondering why Case didn't make a 1660 pull-type.
A 1030 or 1200 would have handled it just fine.
No demand? Would it have cut into SP sales?
Not enough R & D money?
By the 1980s, didn't most brands make a pull-type out of their biggest SP machines?
Straight heads can only get so big on a pull-type and corn heads are not practical but
a smaller pickup head for the big wheat country from the Dakotas on up through Canada would
have been ideal sales territory for big capacity machines where not a lot of corn or straight
cutting is done. Fun to think about what could have been. Any thoughts?