Re: Re: John Deere still own company,huh?

Posted by John Deere social responsibility on October 26, 1998 at 12:33:42:

In Reply to: Re: John Deere still own company,huh? posted by JR2 on June 19, 1998 at 07:51:40:

: : Our 86 J.D. 2150, ( although I'am a I.H. fan )
: : I still like it. However, if J.D. is still so american,
: : how come this thing is made in germany , motor
: : made in france? Didn't we win WW2 ?

: Red Man, it's sometimes hard to tell who won the war in some ways. I mean, the Germans finally got the Jeep! I wanted to buy american. Luck you say, and you're right. So I bought a John Deere 1050 a few years ago. I discovered it had a Yanmar engine in it pretty quickly. Then one day I was attending a home improvement show and I saw some little orange looking tractors that looked a lot like my 1050. They were my 1050! The whole tractor is a Yanmar! I'll add, it has been a good one but you're hard pressed sometimes to know what you are buying. At a recent tractor show I saw a chart that showed John Deere as the only manufacturer of tractors and farm equipment whose "line" went straight through. All the others had been dropped, replaced, joined or some other calamity. Though John Deere still has, as one put it, a "presence" in foreign countries, it is the only one that still remains as it basically was when it started, according to the chart. I was asking for some pipe fittings the other day and was asked if I wanted American or foreign. I told him right quick I wanted American! I asked him to put them out on the counter and I'd be over in my Toyota Land Cruiser in a few minutes to pick them up. Have a good day. John

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