Jack, I work the harvest in 73. With the big crews that we were around all of em were JD or MF equiped. Plus living at Ft Riley Ks 3 different times (74-76) (78-80) and (93-96) I never saw a large custom crew move through with anything in the 74-80 time frame that wasn't JD or MF. In the 93-96 era you saw some of the crews with CaseIH. I'm not talking about farmer doing some custom work here. I'm talking about guys who made most if not all of their money working the trail
IH did not survive, they were bought out and the only reason Case kept the IH name was brand loyalty.
Most of the Farmers in our area though of the AC's as being a poor 2nd choice and even though the dealership in Parkers was great they were not well liked up here after they changed over to the D series. I know of one farmer north of Alexandria, one near Wadena and my BIL currently farming with AC's. I know of one hobby farmer with a WD45. There were a fair number of Gleaners around. I do know my BIL who has always had IH isn't happy with his 8030 MFW and after owner it for about 18 months is wishing he's have spent a little more to get something else (the Parkers dealer sold out and his replacement sucks).
I did notice that the last time I went from the cities to SD that west of the cites is an area where there were a lot of AC's. Must of had one heck of a dealer/dealers in the area.
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