[AT] Statistics In Tractor Manufacturing

[Brian Lesh]

I don't know about your Tractor but I worked with a kid from Chickasha 
in the mid 70's at a fertilizer Co.   I think his name was Glen 
Thompson.  As far as buying something from a tractor salesman,  we try 
not to.

Brian




On 9/15/2019 1:54 PM, Cecil Bearden wrote:
> Phil I agree completely.  the dealer I bought this tractor from was in 
> Chickasha where I spent  large part of my youth.  I knew this dealer 
> and had traded with them since the present owner's Dad had started the 
> dealership working with short lines out of the back door of his 
> house.  For many years he was the Allis and IHC dealership.  He did 
> business on a handshake, and would not bid against another farmer if 
> he was at a sale.  He was just a real fine gentleman.  Unfortunately 
> he died of cancer and his son took over.  His son was also a good 
> fellow.   The salesman I dealt with was a shirttail relative of a 
> friend of mine, and we thought he was ok.  The story was that the 
> former owner only used the tractor to feed cattle with and take care 
> of his place.  He was supposed to be about 70yrs old and had a couple 
> of oil wells and needed to trade.  This was a typical scenario in that 
> part of OKlahoma with the oil play there.
> I think the tractor came from the annual sale at Norman where the 
> dealers get rid of trades and it was cleaned up and I ended up with 
> it.  I had a CIH JX85 that was just not enough tractor for my use.  I 
> had spent $7000 for a new loader and this dealer installed it.  I had 
> paid extra for the joystick control instead of plugging into the 
> remotes.  My new Holland used the remotes that were connected to the 
> joystick.  I have to disconnect hte loader to use the remotes.  It was 
> a nice tractor and worked great for the first 40 hours, then the 
> injector pump trashed apart inside.  It took a complete new pump.  No 
> warranty.  1240 hours were showing.  at 2500 it sucked the valve.  I 
> thought it was the drive plate in the transmission as that is where 
> the noise was coming from.  The NH dealership at Chickasha tore it 
> down installed a new drive plate and then told me that it was a 
> dropped valve.  They broke the windshield while they had it and lost 
> the $125 bracket on the hood.  They did not fasten the fuel tank up 
> properly and I found it before it it nearly drug off.  They also 
> screwed up the fuel intake in the fuel tank and the fuel gauge no 
> longer works.   I have re-plumped the fuel lines so it will start 
> without dying, but the fuel gauge sending unit leaks when the tank is 
> over half full.  The NH dealership did the most damage...   I want to 
> note that the NH dealer was not the one I got the tractor from.
>
> This is the reason I like the Belarus tractors.  The dealership does 
> not help me a bit.  The dealership on my MTZ Belarus is in Canada.   
> If I have problems, I email what the problem is they send me the parts 
> and I bill them for the time to fix.  Next year the warranty is out, 
> but I still have better service than the dealers here.    I think just 
> this past month I found a dealership that has a good mechanic and I am 
> going to try them on my TS110 to reprogram the transmission.  It is 
> making a funny noise like a chatter when going from fwd to rev.  The 
> mechanic said it sounded like a solenoid.  Sometimes it does not like 
> to go into reverse, and that may be the solenoid.  They have been very 
> good about parts and information the past year, so I am going to try 
> them when I get all my wheat sowed.