Zetor Tractor

I don't know but this is supposed to be a complete list.

Zetor builds John Deere so if you think a Deere is ok you should be satisfied with the Zetor.

When Tratka took over the plants the supply picked back up and we can get parts here.

Zetor still builds the larger John Deere on contract for John Deere. Yanmar builds the smaller John Deere, Massey and Fords.

They are pretty fair tractors but they are not cheap here in the states. The Zetor is between a Ford NH and a Massey price wise in my area.

Americans do not care who builds a tractor as long as the American franchised dealer can supply financing and paint it green or red.

I don't know what inovative ideas John Deere demanded on a Zetor built John Deere, but all the parts will interchange on some models so the new idea must have been to use thicker green paint maybe??

I would imagine JD is slipping them in through Zetor in South America. Our combines and combine parts still say JD on the box but they are shipped in from Argentina. Cheaper for business in America now, but the consumer still pays more..

We don't have any domestic equipment unless you call painted green and red tractors domestic.

Ursus is building the mid range Massey now. I priced a Landini 70hp and it was almost twice what a Ford cost. Sad part is that the Ford is a Iseki made in Japan out of Tiawan metals.

Mercedes Benz has a plant in Alabama now. I always thought a M-B was top of the line, but how can they claim old world craftsmanship if it's made in Alabama????

I'm not knocking Alabama, they do the best they can I guess, but they are'nt world famous for automobile technology and dang sure can't build a coo-coo clock.

I had a Benz sedan years ago that I wore out I wish I had kept it and restored it.

To my way of thinking, buying a Benz made in Alabama would make about as much sense as buying a fine dinner wine from pygmies..

Where are you located I stayed in A-burg for a while many moons ago.

Older Zetor's do not have the best reputation. JD has added some specs & such to upgrade their manufaturing tolerences a little bit. Kind of like saying Japanese cars are well built - now yes, but not 30 years ago!

--->Paul

I don't know where the actual point of manufacture is or was, but the tags on the side of these JD cowling here at the farm says Buenos Aires. The Fords say Iseki-Japan amd the Masseys say Ursa-Poland.

The American companies including Deere still have parts and equipment made in Japan and even Tiawan and China. It gets shipped to Buenos Aires and makes it's way into the states. Thanks to our wonderful NAFTA agreements.

I mean who would want a skilled American to have to make his living on a descent wage to build tractors that we can pay more for that are made by feriners. If we trade tractor parts with Czecks and Chinese we can all draw welfare and complain about not having enough work here in the states.

Plus that now we can wait 2-3 weeks for a JD or Ford part while Hung Pharr Low and his brother One Hung Low stamp them out in a forge without a EPA or OSHA man breathing down their necks????

Where is Iseki, Georgia??? The data plates on these Ford and JD injector pumps both have Iseki stamped in them. That Iseki, Georgia must be down stream from Buenos Aires, Tennessee beside the Mazda plants.

Thes JD combine heads have had Buenos Aires on the crates since at least 83 or so. Even these Brouser Fords we have for turf harvesters are made in Canada.

It looks like some of theis equipment we have made in the states could be better quality than Howse and International.

One of the last good American products we have is Bushhog and now they use Tiawan steel and Chinese bearings.

And this is the true, american companies, who bought german plant's in the past try to get the american system of working to Germany, but this doesn't fit, we got an other mentality about working, and the Managers didn' realise this. All over the world the management is wrong, not the craftsmen.
so long
Bernhard