Posted by 02XLT4X4 on December 20, 2007 at 11:05:49 from (69.63.98.126):
In Reply to: popularity? posted by matthies on December 20, 2007 at 09:03:15:
Nebraska Cowman said: (quoted from post at 11:22:14 12/20/07) And oh yeah IH built the Farmall F12 & 14 from 1932 -1939, over 150,000 units. They were a one horse tractor. In the same time frame Mother Deere built less than half that many Bs.
Well the B didn't come out until 1935, and they made over 66,000 of them counting 1939. Not too bad for just one model of tractor IMO, and it was probably cheaper for them to make rather than having two different models that pretty much did the same thing, that never made much sense to me.
Whatever they did it worked out pretty well, they are not owned by another company yet.
I am a AC guy at heart (Pretty much raised on a JD B though), and while A-C's are still pretty common in my area, the old red and green ones outnumber the orange by a fair margin. It is close enough I don't think I could say between the two of them who had more back in the day, I wasn't there. The new John Deere's are by far more common, mainly because all the other dealers died out.
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