Posted by jd dave on September 14, 2020 at 16:57:06 from (69.121.251.184):
In Reply to: Harvestor Company posted by mb58 on September 14, 2020 at 07:32:30:
Despite the first two letters of my handle I'm also sad. Until 1976 we had all IH equipment. Harvester had a strong presence in New Jersey in the 40's, 50's and 60's. Oliver had a chance with the potato growers but John Deere was near non-existent around here during that time. Then, - my uncle, - who had actually worked for the IH dealer in the 1950's and came to partner with my dad, said in 1976, - "That's it, we're going to Deere. The first green here was in the form of a 2640 for the pto orchard sprayer. The rest is history. The story I got about Harvester was that they ended up like General Motors in the 1990's with a lot of red-tape, higher-up, over-paid, fat-cat managers and the company just simply couldn't support that culture.
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