[AT] Rewinch batteries

[Dave Rotigel]

Well said Greg! And as you so well point out this applies to almost everything in life--except, of course, pick up trucks. In that case it's self evident that Ford is far and away THE BEST!
	Dave

On Feb 24, 2014, at 10:26 PM, Greg Hass wrote:

> 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
> 
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