A few posts lately got me thinking of some of the anomalies on farms around here that tended to buy all the same color equipment. For example, when I was younger, there were farms with all JD equipment except always a New Holland haybine, or all Ford equipment but always a JD corn planter, all IH equipment except for always a Fox chopper, etc. Anybody care to share their anomalies?
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SadFarmall
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Nearly everything on our farm has been IHC except for these:
Sunshine 10 Disc Sundercut Plough
Sunshine 6B Reaper & Binder
Sunshine Semi-Rigid Tyne Seed Drill
As far as I can tell these were bought just before the Second World War because Sunshine was close and the machines could be ordered and delivered within a couple of days. These three machines were all good, though the plough would have benefitted from better bearings. The Seed Drill is an excellent machine, and although I am basically an IHC lover, the 6B Reaper & Binder is a better machine than the McCormick equivalent (my opinion).
We still run IHC and I have four Farmall tractors and an 844S. The only other make of tractor we have is a Belarus 920, which despite the very heavy work asked of it, has never let us down.
SadFarmall
Sunshine 10 Disc Sundercut Plough
Sunshine 6B Reaper & Binder
Sunshine Semi-Rigid Tyne Seed Drill
As far as I can tell these were bought just before the Second World War because Sunshine was close and the machines could be ordered and delivered within a couple of days. These three machines were all good, though the plough would have benefitted from better bearings. The Seed Drill is an excellent machine, and although I am basically an IHC lover, the 6B Reaper & Binder is a better machine than the McCormick equivalent (my opinion).
We still run IHC and I have four Farmall tractors and an 844S. The only other make of tractor we have is a Belarus 920, which despite the very heavy work asked of it, has never let us down.
SadFarmall
notjustair
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We had IH everything. The exception was the JD grain drill and the JD 4 row planter for milo. It would have been a very cold day before we used any tractor that was not an international.
I'm not really as partial. My fallback is IH, but I will own other makes. I'm looking for the good tractor not the good manufacturer. John Deere 4440 for example. It is a good tractor and comfortable to use. The neighbor that will only buy Deere teases me. "You know, you look pretty good in that green tractor!"
I'm not really as partial. My fallback is IH, but I will own other makes. I'm looking for the good tractor not the good manufacturer. John Deere 4440 for example. It is a good tractor and comfortable to use. The neighbor that will only buy Deere teases me. "You know, you look pretty good in that green tractor!"
BAnNC
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- Western North Carolina
Wasn't much here but horse drawn. So it was weathered gray and rust. A Burns Tiller made its way here with its metallic green color. Still here and on its way to being shiny and working again.
Phil in Pa
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In the 70's it seemed everybody in our area had the JD corn planter and the Fox chopper regardless of what the main color was. And the Gehl silage blower.
Anonymous-0
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a person would like them if they never ran anything else, Dad started with a 36A and never had the desire to ever own a 2 cyl tractor again, just about every farm around here had an A6 Case combine regardless of the tractor that pulled it and most had a jd planter
Gleaner combines in the 1970-80 on red or green farms.
JD 494-7200 planters on red farms. You couldn't give a Cyclo planter away here.
Case 1200+ planters on Green farms. You don't see many of the modern JD planters. Funny how the switch in planters was made from all green to all red.
New Holland hay and forage equipment on green farms in the 1980-2000.
Paul
JD 494-7200 planters on red farms. You couldn't give a Cyclo planter away here.
Case 1200+ planters on Green farms. You don't see many of the modern JD planters. Funny how the switch in planters was made from all green to all red.
New Holland hay and forage equipment on green farms in the 1980-2000.
Paul
Out here in Washington, in early days tractors split pretty well between IH and JD with a few others. combines were always JD until NH came along with a big one. Balers generally IH (55/56) and some 3 ties, later freeman took over. When JD got New Generation out they pretty well took over the tractor scene except for a few IH loyals, also the local IH dealer went out of business.
jwal10
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- Western Oregon
We were all JD but always had IHC disks and field cultivators. Farmhand wheel rakes were popular for hay rakes....James
4020deereboy
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Weve had case a #sh!t ford international and alis Chalmers finally stuck to john deere I'd take a horse over a case
4020deereboy
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New Holland makes good hay equipment just to bad they are now owned buy such a sh**y company I'll have hesston or john deere hay equipment or I will use a pitch fork and a wagon
2 Old 2 care
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When i was a youngin' we were one color. One brand. Massey Harris/Massey Ferguson. That had a lot to do with the fact my grandfather was a dealer. Once the dealership closed, we had more variety of colors than a bad acid trip,
Anonymous-0
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I'm sure you would, do you have one of those sts feed grinders too?
dieselfume
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Growing up as a child we have always had green. only thing that would last. and it continues till this day. The exceptions were the haying equipment. First round baler was a red Hesston, and the rest have been deere's. all the windrowers have been and still are Hesston. The V-rakes have all been red except for one john deere (704) piece of junk.
The only international to grace our place was a loaner unit from the local deere dealer. Everyone kept their tractors in good shape because nobody wanted to use that tractor to do anything.
The only international to grace our place was a loaner unit from the local deere dealer. Everyone kept their tractors in good shape because nobody wanted to use that tractor to do anything.
4020deereboy
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Its not that I think case is that bad just can't stand the dealer anymore I even worked for the dealer for awhile during college . We've had two Ford 8n a ford 5000 half breed several different alis chlamers and an IH 1586 don't remember the case it was white and black seemed like a nice tractor . Never really seen a tractor I couldn't like something about
4020deereboy
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And no a 2388 and tr98 and a 7700 all of which can grind feed with the best of em if you ain't smart enuff to set em up
MARK ROBKE
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I have no idea why, but dad and my uncle had an allis chalmers hay rake. They started with an 8n ford and matching ford equipment. They were on a waiting list for their baler, an ih/mccormick deering 50t. They started with tractors in 1948. Also had a cunningham hay conditioner, ih manure spreader, and ez flow fertilizer spreader. Later they moved to 300 utility, and then also 340 utility, always keeping their last 8n, a 52 model. The last new purchase was a woods 72 rotary mower. Mark
Thats the way it is here. Almost everything ag wise is Ford or New Holland, except for the bush hog and square baler. Bush Hog is bush hog brand, mainly due to durability and the square baler, oh that is a saga. Had a new NH picked out to get at the end of the season last year. 336 Deere was old, used hard and worn almost out. Broke a knotter frame with 30 acres in the windrow near the end of the season and found a nice 336 local to put in the field the same day for the cost of a knotter and installation.
As to the whys; I like my dealer and I understand the engineering philosophy. If I nickle and dime accross a dozen dealers and brands Im just another farmer broke down and in a hurry. With one dealer, Im a sizable book of business .
As to the whys; I like my dealer and I understand the engineering philosophy. If I nickle and dime accross a dozen dealers and brands Im just another farmer broke down and in a hurry. With one dealer, Im a sizable book of business .
Tony Bunniss
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I think it all depended on the strength of the dealer. I was the head mechanic at a JD dealership in the 60's (G&S Implement in Balaton MN.) We were right next door to an IH dealer, and even serviced IH tractors (there weren’t many of them because it seemed like most everything was JD.) Even today if I get a cut, my wife claims she is surprised that my blood isn't GREEN.
We had about a 50 mile radius around our shop that we serviced. I would go out on a service call and drive past all the other dealers shops, even other JD dealers.
Not to blow my own horn but farmers know where they can get things fixed and don't have to worry about getting screwed.
My old boss is dead and gone now but he was the most honest guy I ever knew. His name was Mel Goltz and I've always lived my life by asking the question "What would Mel do?"
His advise to me when I started working at the shop as a snot nose kid was "go the extra mile." He said "if a machine comes in with nails or baling wire where it should be a cotter pin, replace it but don't bother putting it on the bill." Of course they all came in that way, not that farmers didn't know it was supposed to be a cotter, but they did what needed to be done to keep going. The weather waits for no-one.
I went on to do other things in my life, but I learned my lesson well and never worried about the small favors. I think that attitude has served me well and wish more people thought that way.
Tony
We had about a 50 mile radius around our shop that we serviced. I would go out on a service call and drive past all the other dealers shops, even other JD dealers.
Not to blow my own horn but farmers know where they can get things fixed and don't have to worry about getting screwed.
My old boss is dead and gone now but he was the most honest guy I ever knew. His name was Mel Goltz and I've always lived my life by asking the question "What would Mel do?"
His advise to me when I started working at the shop as a snot nose kid was "go the extra mile." He said "if a machine comes in with nails or baling wire where it should be a cotter pin, replace it but don't bother putting it on the bill." Of course they all came in that way, not that farmers didn't know it was supposed to be a cotter, but they did what needed to be done to keep going. The weather waits for no-one.
I went on to do other things in my life, but I learned my lesson well and never worried about the small favors. I think that attitude has served me well and wish more people thought that way.
Tony
T in NE
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- Cambridge, Nebraska
We had NH hay equipment (except for the IH 16 rake), til we went to the 881 CIH chopper, then back to NH once we wore that out. Gehl round baler. JD planter and drill. Mostly IH and Brillion tillage equipment. All red tractors except the D19 which we sold and replaced with the 190. My uncle used them on the round baler because of the dependent PTO and hand clutch, you could turn the baler backwards without having to do it by hand.
My boss now, his family was JD from the beginning, but he bought a 7250 a few years ago, and his dad liked it so much he went and bought one, too. Now they've got 2 Steigers, 3 Magnums, and his dad plans on buying a Magnum 305 in a few years to run til he can't run one no more, plus the old JD's that are relegated to chore (easy-use) tractors.
I never ran a 4020 til I came to work here. It's not a 966, but I really don't mind it. I'd rather use it than any of the others around for anything it is capable of doing.
My boss now, his family was JD from the beginning, but he bought a 7250 a few years ago, and his dad liked it so much he went and bought one, too. Now they've got 2 Steigers, 3 Magnums, and his dad plans on buying a Magnum 305 in a few years to run til he can't run one no more, plus the old JD's that are relegated to chore (easy-use) tractors.
I never ran a 4020 til I came to work here. It's not a 966, but I really don't mind it. I'd rather use it than any of the others around for anything it is capable of doing.
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