Posted on 03/08/2009 12:41:46 PM PDT by SandRat
ArmaTrac is Turkish AFAIK.
Source of tractors:
Turkey-
“Erkunt develops, manufactures, markets and services ArmaTrac tractors, and is one of the leading tractor manufacturers in Turkey.”
“Erkunt was founded in 2003 and production started in September 2004. However its historic roots go back to 1953.”
Hey, I could use one of them.
Yeah, really great allies in freeing Iraq weren't they???
What is wrong with giving some nice green John Deeres?
The problem would be that everybody would want a John Deere.In a couple of years,after all the cheap third world junk tractors fell apart-the Deeres would stll be working.
That’s what I was thinking. After 9/11 when I went through a rough patch and had to sell everything to survive no one gave me a tractor.
Who paid for theirs?
Yea, I know, I did and you did.
Don’t know why this irritates me so much. I hope they do well. It would be nice to think it made a difference for them.
Got an Old ‘48 8n,rebuilding the engine now.
But look at this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEdXc1i7P00
Were I the one to be giving these, I would select machines for which parts are fairly readily available. I doubt there are many Deere dealers in the Fertile Crescent.
That is the point - we need to build up our own export markets. Nobody else will for us..
Bingo. You’ve nailed it.
When we were farming, we had three makes of tractors:
- NH 8670, a great design, but NH was bought up by Fiat.
- A Fiat-Hesston 160-90, great on fuel, good reliability, but parts had to come from Italy
- JD 4440 and JD 4640, both of which used more fuel, were less comfortable, but which got used the most because I could get parts at 50% off from tear-down yards all over the US.
In that power range, Deere’s tractors are made in Mexico, Europe or Japan.
Only the “big iron” is made here in the US — like 120HP and up.
I’ll add this:
If you don’t have computers, electronics and emissions BS festooned all over a diesel engine, they’re simple to fix and keep running.
The Perkins diesels in these are probably modern, but not computerized, diesels.
The last thing these guys need is a load of EU/EPA BS emissions nonsense.
It’s got a Perkins diesel. Can’t be a bad machine.
Sorry, I don’t do YouTube.
I have a ‘48 Farmall M, a ‘41 Farmall A, a ‘58 Minneapolis Moline 445 and a ‘62 Massey Ferguson 204, plus some David Bradley stuff (read: junk) and a couple AC garden tractors from the early ‘70s when they really made them...not like this Craftsman (and other) junk of today.
John Deere = Japanese.
As far as I’m concerned it’s not a Deere unless it was built in Waterloo,Iowa.Although the Deeres from Mannheim aren’t too bad.
John Deers of that size are built in china. LOL
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