BOBM25 said: (quoted from post at 20:05:40 01/31/12) Wish I was but a fly on the wall in that IH boardroom back in '84-'85. They were SOOOOOO close to the best tractor ever built, IMHO. Would have saved the company?!? What do you guys think?
I'm not sure one series of tractors would have saved them. It had been building for a while and it no doubt would have taken a while to get it back. I keep thinking of the draft control we were working on for IH that would have been in the series following the 460-560s. To show the difference it made, we tested with a gas 460U and pulled a 4x16" semi-mounted plow... have any of you ever seen a 460 pull that much... I've plowed with it in some nasty alkaline soil and I know it would do it. IH engineers loved it, but I heard their managment thought it too expensive. JMO, but I think it would have taken something like that to save them. It was years before IH or anyone else had a system to compare.
This post was edited by IH fan at 17:25:25 01/31/12.
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