Posted by big tee on June 02, 2017 at 05:37:59 from (199.120.66.137):
Farmed for 40+ years and never had a brand new tractor. So when the wife came home from work a couple of weeks ago and asked if I wanted to go on a Gold Key Tour I jumped at it. The tour is when you buy a new piece of equipment from Deere you get to drive it off the assembly line. The county bought a new 700 Deere crawler. Some of the county road crew, the county engineer and two of the supervisors-my wife-and me went on the factory tour in Dubuque Ia. where they make Deere crawlers, skid loaders and backhoes. VERY interesting. The building where they build this stuff is a mile long and I pictured three lines like you seen in the old Henry Ford pictures a mile long. They didn't want us to take pictures because they said it might offend some employs?? Instead of a long lines they have carts the machines ride on and stations where groups of employs put on different parts. I took pics. of the last station where they put on the tracks and getting ready to drive it outside. The outside pics, are of the crew, the salesman and the supervisors. The one pic. is of the guy who will run it---smiling like a skunk eating s---. Deere used to make the smaller two cylinder tractors here and the one pic. is the very first one-the M. Had to get a pic. of it. My Dad bought a new 420 back in 57. Had a real good time, I just tagged along, Deere fed us a very good noon meal with CLOTH napkins and treated us all VERY good.---Tee
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