Hugh MacKay said: (quoted from post at 19:16:39 09/04/08) kopeck: we all know how brilliant the engineers at IH were. Cockshutt and Oliver had be selling IPTO, 8 years when the SMTA appeared on the scene.
Have a little story for you. Canibul lady went to the butcher shop, wanted a pound of brains. Butcher said, "we have oridinary brains $1. per # and engineer brains, $10. per #." The customer figured this was ridiculous, engineer brains were not worth $10 per #. Butcher said, "Lady if you onlt knew how many engineers we have to catch for a # of brains, you would begrudge us the $10."
Actually when I first heard that ECONOMISTS were tha subject of discussion.
Heh, I like that.
You are right though, the fact that it took them so long to start putting IPTOs on tractors must have been (and still is) frustrating. It's a feature with such obvious upside. That and they're smaller tractors never got the IPTO treatment.
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