[AT] Germany-long

[Chuck Saunders]

Gee, all anyone ever offers me is "You'll find more room if you push away
from the dinner table"
Chuck

On 2/26/07, Dave Ernst <shop at cccomm.net> wrote:
>
> The Tulare International Farm Show is quite an adventure. Approximately
> 100
> acres + of every farm dealer/implement display imaginable. A good friend
> and
> local farmer here bought a new JD last year to pull his big bale retriever
> and was in the JD pavillion and started talking with one of the
> representatives there regarding the pros and cons of his tractor. During
> the
> extensive conversation the representative said He'd be more interested in
> about what Ronnie didn't like about the cab and controls. Now Ronny is a
> big
> man, like about 6'6" and 250 lbs so movement in the cab is somewhat
> limited
> so the gave that rep an earful. Turns out other JD guru's were listening
> and
> one of them asked him if he would be interested in going to the factory
> and
> talking with their design engineers. Turns out that after the growing
> season
> was over last fall Ronnie took off by himself, drove from Nevada to Iowa
> and
> toured the Waterloo plant. He told the JD reps that he'd just been there
> and
> they said, no we have a facility and design engineers in Meineikin(sp?)
> Germany.  He leaves on the 10th of March for a week, all expensed paid....
> Lucky guy
> Dave
>
>
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