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Posted by paul on September 24, 2001 at 09:50:42 from (199.3.9.7):
In Reply to: do it again posted by bcPA on September 24, 2001 at 08:29:39:
With no particular model in mind, let's start a factory to make a reproduction. 1. Whoops, gotta put fenders & a roll bar on it, it's the law. 2. Gotta go 12 volt, no one wants 6 volt any more. 3. Gotta be 3-point, gotta have 1 hydraulics outlet, gotta have live pto & hyd, gotta have power steering. 4. A lot of people prefer diesel engines over gas, runs cheaper. Hard to buy a gas engine to drop in any more, and tooling up an engine plant will bankrupt all of us! Gotta buy a drop-in engine, and it will be diesel. 5. Folks can buy an old tractor for $1000-5000, repair it up themselves for another $1000. We would need to charge $10,000 for ours. So, what do we have? A bigger-end Japaneese compact tractor. Not many of the parts will really interchange with the old stuff. I really, really like your idea. I wish someone would. But it just isn't practical. Wish it was. JD & NH have started 'ecconomy' lines the past decade, to try to capture a bit of the market that doesn't need all the new dodads. That's about as much as we'll get I suppose. --->Paul
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