Re: what happend to fast hitch

Posted by Allan In NE on March 16, 2006 at 03:56:16 from (148.78.243.24):

In Reply to: what happend to fast hitch posted by Joe werner on March 15, 2006 at 18:33:13:

Joe,

I'm with Hugh on this one.

They were just simply a "bad" idea. If IH had gone with a four-point lift like John Deere had during those patient-war years, they would probably still be in business today.

That fast hitch was doomed from the start because of its inherent lifting limitation.

By the time IH woke up and smelled the coffee, by the time they realized that the whole industry had then moved towards the 3-point standard, they had lost market share and was never able to catch back up even tho they were producing superior tractors.

In later years, when they finally did get on the 3-point bandwagon, all their faithful red farmers had to switch complete lines of machinery or buy their adaptor packages for each and every machine. This left kind of a bad taste in those collective farmers' mouths and they took their money elsewhere.

Very, very bad call on IH's part. Too darned bad too, because even to this day IH's draft sensing, telescoping 3-point hitches are second to none in "smart" design.

Allan

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