Posted by RodInNS on December 18, 2010 at 14:15:38 from (216.118.158.123):
In Reply to: Re: MFPoor posted by amnion on December 18, 2010 at 09:47:41:
There's a much larger market for those tractors than there is for small combines... so they can spread the design costs over a lot more units. The othter factor is tht perhaps the design costs are much lower on the tractors... bear in mind that you get a MUCH lower specification, older technology tractor for the money you're talking about. NH's for instance... the tractor is a basic spec former 40/TS series tractor whose basic design goes back to 1965 and the Ford 5000 and the main elements that have changed are found in common with what they're selling in other parts of the world today where emissions are not a factor OR they're commonized with the higher spec tractors of today. A styling excercise to make the tractor 'look' a bit more modern doesn't cost them a pile of money. The foundry tooling does... With combines the design is largely the same with the exception of scale... and in all probability the guy that wants the small machine still wants all the features of the big machine... he just doesn't want to pay as much... but there's not a large cost difference in the component cost for materials. There would be a significant cost in design that would then be spread over a smaller number of units... so it would never be cost effective to produce.
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