[AT] Rewinch batteries

[Greg Hass]

I always laugh to myself when people  start arguing about which product 
is better. My purpose here is not to start a fight, but to make some 
observations so I hope everyone takes this with a grain of salt as I 
don't intend anyone to take this personally. A few years ago I needed a 
fairly large battery for one of my diesel tractors. I always buy my 
batteries at the same place because, although we have at least a dozen  
places that sell them, this is the only place where if you have a 
problem you can stop there and within ten minutes they can completely  
test the battery; including a load test. As they were looking for the 
battery, I mentioned that I have had good luck with CROWN batteries and 
would like one of them if available. Just then he found the battery and 
put it on the bench. He then reached on the shelf and was going through 
some papers. Before I knew what was happening , he found the paper he 
wanted, pulled the backing off and slapped it on the battery 
saying"that's what you got" ; it was a CROWN decal!  Back when we had 
cattle, we had 3 self unloading wagons: an international, a Gehl and a 
Kaston. Which was better; well they were all the same wagon with 
different names. When my sister was in college she worked part time in a 
potato chip factory. She said it was funny listening to her roommates 
argue about the best tasting chips. She said, in reality, when they were 
bagging and the bags ran out they just grabbed another brand and kept on 
bagging off the same conveyor belt.  When I bought our chest freezer; in 
the back of the instruction book  one page said they would like to thank 
their private labels. Turns out, that freezer  was sold under 26 
different names.  I don't intend to make light of differences as many 
brands are different but more and more in our economy many things are 
sold under different names. I sort of long for the old days when by and 
large IH was IH , John Deere was John Deere, Oliver  was Oliver, etc. etc.
  Greg Hass in ice cold Michigan