[AT] Re: Chinese Iron

Fri Dec 2 19:57:05 PST 2005

   A little ol lady pulled out in front of me while I was delivering a hog 
to the butcher shop.  I was driving my uncles 79 chev shortbed P/U truck. 
now this has been back abt 88 when accident happened.
  Right off the bat ins company wanted it totaled, but it was my uncles 
truck.  So I said we got to get it fixed.
Anyway to make a long story short.  Had it  towed out to the butcher, unload 
hog. ( he was shot an stuck before loading ) Then had truck towed to local 
chev- GMC dealer to be fixed.  It needed windshield , hood, bumper, frame 
straightened, and whatever else I cant rember.
  At the dealer we were introduced to a slick talking dude tellin abt how 
they used new parts, for used part price.
One thing he never mentioned was, these new parts were made in china. We 
still have and use the truck alot, but the hood went first.  Just rusted 
holes in it until it was crumbling the underhood supports were gone. Ant 
this New hood had only been on 3-4 years  I got another at harpers an that 
fixed that, next the radiator supports and headlight brackets have kinda 
evaporated. Leaving us a day truck at best.  Rob wilson seems to have the 
cure for these type of problems,  If he can get the info out around his 
waggin tonge Er may be he has bit the waggin tonge
so bad that we will have to wait for his recovery.   I hope he  has a good 
waggin whit a tung tha says made in the USA.  An not just a reproduction

   I AM PROUD OF MY HAROR FREIGHT JUNK tools thats around here, an if they 
break O Well time to git another order together

rob what you mean by this?
>>>history of theWe have only
ourselves to blame. As for lazy Americans I think you need to take a
great big bite out of your tongue. It's the lazy Americans that made
this country the strongest, richest, free nation in the history of the
world.
world.

My Grandma says you reap what you sow. Well we better start
planting locally.
Rob

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at cox.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 8:27 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Re: Chinese Iron

> Hi Larry,
>
> Personally I hate talking to a Indian tech or customer service rep on the 
> phone.  Primarily because I just can't understand them.  However, using 
> those offshore resources is simply a market decision just like buying the 
> winch that started this thread.  In time, (not soon enough to satify me) 
> things will change.  The Asian economies will shift and you will see some 
> of those jobs move back to the US.  I'm not so sure about the 
> manufacturing jobs.  Unless the Gov't does something to mediate the high 
> cost of environmental and regulatory requirements in this country, we 
> might never see many new heavy industrial jobs come back.  I'm not saying 
> our environmental and regulatory laws are necessarily bad.  I am saying 
> that our competition in Asia doesn't have to live up to those standards.
>
> Meanwhile everytime we buy a bag of cement to work on our tractor shops we 
> are paying a highly inflated price because China is buying up the worlds 
> supply of cement to build infrastructure that we are paying for.  That 
> goes for the high price of fuel as well.
>
> By the way.  There is a Chineese car company that has teamed up with that 
> fellow Bricklin that is famous in the auto industry.  They are building a 
> car for export to the US that is supposed to be world class quality 
> comparable to BMW and Benz that will compete in the market for folks that 
> buy Lexus, etc and will sell in the price range of Chevy, Ford and Toyota. 
> That is according to Bricklin in a TV interview I saw a couple of weeks 
> ago. We will see how it turns out.
>
> I guess some made in China replacement fenders and hoods for our antique 
> tractors wouldn't be such a bad thing.  LOL
>
> Charlie
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Larry Sikes" <larry at rockridgefarm.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 8:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Re: Chinese Iron
>
>
>>I work for a large mutual fund company that Outsourced
>> most of our IS function to India and the hardware care and
>> feeding to Canada. It was supposed to save big bucks.
>> Now we have 5 times as many people doing the job half
>> as well. The interesting thing is that the wages in India
>> are doing what wages did here in the 70/80's. It is only a
>> mater of time till they will end up costing 5 to 10 times as
>> much as the people we got rid of with lower quality. Even
>> more interesting is to hear the upper management
>> constantly telling us what a great success this move was.
>> Time will tell but I think America will suffer greatly in the
>> next 20 years from all the importing and outsourcing.
>> We will become a dependent country.
>> We have a greedy upper class who wants to put as much
>> difference between themselves and the rest of us that it
>> will eventually destroy the American way.
>> We need to somehow form a viable third party to take
>> on the other 2 parties.
>> Tractor reference - All my old tractors were made in the
>> USA. My New Holland was made in Italy.
>>
>> Larry Sikes
>> Rock Ridge Farm
>> http://rockridgefarm.com
>> mailto:larry at rockridgefarm.com
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