[AT] Bringing tractor production to the USA

[Cecil Bearden]

There was not enough profit in Ag equipment for Cat.   The new Cat is 
not your fat her's Cat!!!!    To paraphrase an old Oldsmobile 
advertisement....   My contractor friend is working on a project SW of 
OKC about 70 miles.   It is literally in the middle of nowhere...   A 
325 Cat trackhoe was throwing an engine code.   The machine has only 270 
hours on it, but is out of warranty.  They had to call Cat to repair 
it.  Cat serviceman spends about 2 hours on the machine and replaces a 
$100 sensor. Service time cost was $200, travel cost was $400 !!!!  This 
one of those that can diagnose and transmit the problem via smartphone..

My old E110B  just has a very annoying buzzer that I push a button to 
silence.......
Cecil

On 10/17/2019 11:21 PM, James Peck wrote:
> Cat sold the whole ag equipment product line.
>
> https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1008629432213684440
>
> [ Carl Gogol] I had thought that Agco had built challenger for Cat-  could be wrong.
>
> [James] When Agco bought the Challenger brand from Caterpillar, they expanded the plant in Jackson and moved tracked Challenger production there. Assembling the wheeled tractors at Jackson required another plant expansion.
>
> [ Jason] Most manufacturing plants are located these days where the largest market for those exists. From there they are shipped around the world. Large frame tractors are built in the US for Deere, CaseIH and New Holland.  It makes sense for Agco do to the same.
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