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New player in the subcompact tractor market

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Doug-Iowa

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Happened across these little tractors on FBM. Built in India, assembled in Oklahoma with Titan tires (Des Moines Iowa plant). Looks like sales will be handled thru farm fleet type stores. I would think the compact market is already saturated with LS, TYM, Mahindra, along with the traditional names. I recall Cabela's had a 3 year run with a rebranded TYM a while back, and Northern Tool still has their Daewoo tractors I think.
Summit
 
Atwoods is like a sister chain to the Eastern chain Rural King. Atwoods is west of the Mississippi and Rural King west for a time they both sold Harvest King Oil and several other brands common to both chains. Rural king has tried 4 diffrent tractor marketing plans none of which really ever was a success. This may work out but that market is already crowded , some folks only look at price and never look down the road to what they are going to have in 8 to 10 years. I have seen a lot of them come and go in the last 30 years.
 
Doug. Thanks for the post. I saved as a favorite. Im know enough to know that the extras cost but nice to know that a lot of the add ons that I wish I had on my 2012 Kubota come standard on the Summit. Not to say Im running out to buy one~~~ Im just saying. Wingnut
 
India would make a fair machine I would think.

As always with the other you mentioned, parts supply scares people away, and rightly so. Then if you buy one, depreciation is a very steep drop.

Not really because its a bad machine, but buyers are beware of it all.

Oh yea Menards tried the same a decade or two ago, had import tractors. They promised to have parts supply for 10 years. I think they sold them what, 5-6 years, then did they have some sort of liquidation of what was left?

Similar to Cabelas I believe.

Paul
 
Was hard to find their locations, nothing showed on the tractor company map nor Atwoods map, got the text listings tho. Arkansas to Texas to Missouri it looks like.

Paul
 
Well i got to say, i am usually a critic,but it looks like they put some thought into it. My neighbor has a Bobcat tractor,and he asked me to help hm put in a new battery, which is also in front, but it was a job,getting it all back together,the right way, so we will see how it sells, and works out, i don't plan on buying any brand i don't need one!
 
Not looking at the link. Just more foreign junk with no parts support like all those short line companies of foreign stuff. I'll keep my old Farm tractors from 40-70 years ago. So far I can still get parts and most of the models we have still have a lot of them for parts.
 
Looks like a nice little compact. You would think by now they would all be a cloned with little difference in the mechanical parts.

Most that would buy one will put 75 hr on it the first year and struggle to put 20 a year on it afterwords. 10 years 275 hr I would hope not much parts support needed.

At 75 hr my Bota hydro trans crashed it took 3 mo of pushing them to even start to repair it. This was a common tractor with a common problem. Dealer support is not worth much if they don't have the capability to repair it.
 
My Case IH /Kubota dealer in Terre Haute has been in business since 1967.. I don't see Case IH or Kubota going out of business in my lifetime.

It was a big disappointment when I learned Terramite went out of business. Sold everything.

No way would I buy another tractor without an established local dealer support.
 
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