Posted by Straw Boss on January 11, 2017 at 00:16:54 from (66.35.124.242):
In Reply to: After IH.... posted by Bill VA on January 10, 2017 at 17:23:52:
After the merger, Case IH offered a boat load of 33 and 3594s painted red at fire sale prices before the Magnums came out. Guess who bought them all up? It wasn't the Case owners. (They already had one.) All of my IH neighbors traded in their 2+2s and 5488s for those 94s and loved them. Oh they grumbled a little bit about the jerky power shift but you knew dam well they thought shifting through 6 gears was heaven after living with the spongy single shift TA which wasn't a real gear shift, just an over running clutch they had to replace every few years. In reality, they just never felt a real POWER shift before but they had to grumble about something just to save face driving a Case tractor. One guy even admitted to IH putting the doors on backwards as the dumbest thing IH ever did but IH wouldn't change their design despite the complaints. He loved that big Case cab and that slow turning, high torque long stroke engine. Easy transition for them to the Magnum after that and everybody was happy from then on except for the cab part. Us Case guys felt cramped in the IH designed Magnum cab with no room to stretch your legs or carry a cooler or log chain let alone a rider but at least they put the doors on the right way. CaseIH eventually fixed all that with the new MX cab which was back up to J.I.Case standards. Once again had some living space with leg and elbow room and glass all the way to the floor.
On another note, these IH guys were firm believers in the cyclo planters, rotary combines and the 490/496 disks among other IH products and weren't about to go green for that reason alone. As far as that goes, most of the Case guys had the same red equipment so most Case guys were quit comfortable with the red dealers anyhow. Despite all the hard feelings some had, it really was a natural fit to merge these two companies. Something that convinced me of that at the time is how many of the die hard IH guys were also buying the large frame Case 94 series 4WDs long before the Steiger purchase instead of going green(Steiger or JD), or to Versatile which were all good tractors.
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