Posted by Mark on January 21, 2010 at 09:54:10 from (75.117.220.199):
My posts rarely exist long enough to garner any realistic responses...but I thought perhaps I"d try once more.
Do any of you think a major tractor maker will ever reintroduce an offset cultivating model again?
I feel it was economics, rather than liability that killed the new offset market close to 25 years ago. However, with the big push by the Greenies and health food nuts against chemical herbicides and fertilizers, it would seem to me that small crop cultivation would be on the rebound.
Attrition is taking its toll on the old Farmall"s and similar tractors traditionally used for these purposes and I am satisfied that many people would be willing to invest in new machines.....IF they could buy them.
Some claim that liability killed the offset and tricycle configurations, but I contend it was simply economics.....a corporate financial decision to get out of a stale market. However, that happened 25 years ago......when there was a glut of still serviceable "old" tractors still in the field. Another quarter century of use has elapsed and I think the market is ready to absorb new production. I know I would buy one, if only I could.
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