Re: Canadian John Deere

Posted by Hugh MacKay on April 08, 2005 at 04:07:58 from (216.208.58.121):

In Reply to: Re: Canadian John Deere posted by buickanddeere on April 07, 2005 at 22:09:58:

buickanddeere: I don't think it's any secret, for the past 30 years John Deere have had a cheapie lineup in 30 to 60 hp tractors. Now being an IH man, I'm not very familiar with the exact models. I can say I've heard the model number 1630 from numerous sources, and have never heard many good things about it.

My neighbor and he is in fact a former neighbor since we have each moved since retirement. This guy would compare favorably with the JD experts here at YT. He had heart problems later in life, had to have a pacemaker. He was always having problems with the pacemaker, always growling about the damn thing. A group of us were having a discussion one day, when my neighbors health came into the discussion. Amoung us the John Deere dealer, who suggested he may have to encourage John Deere to come out with line of pacemakers. We all agreed that such a happening would cure all our friend's health problems. So now you get the picture, re the type of JD expert, my neighbor was.

I was helping a guy with harvest, about 5 years ago. Blueberry harvesters on the east coast, these normally require 40 to 50 hp for level terrain, but most will have one larger tractor anyhow to do hills and for other heavy work. they use all 4x4 tractors for this. He had traded a Ford 4610 for a new 5xxx Deere. I was operating the large tractor a 90 hp Kubota. The oldest unit was a 45 hp IH. That new Deere was down 60% of the time, most of it transmission-rearend problems. The operator would put that tractor in park, and if much presure one way, he couldn't get it out of park. One of the other tractors would have to hook with chain to get him out of park. In an operation such as this each tractor harvester picks about 100 acres of berries per year. They have about 30 days to do this, thus they want no tractor sidelined, even for a half day. These harvesters are side mounted on tractor with platform on 3 point for cleaning and boxes of berries. You don't change these harvesters from one tractor to another very quickly. After the harvest was over he traded that Deere for another new Deere, same hp, but a lot more money.

You tell me, where does the name Yanmar come into this picture?

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