It’s not just China and Mexico that are taking US jobs… Now, thanks to Barack Obama, Cuba will be building American tractors.
Posted on 02/15/2016 11:53:44 AM PST by Nachum
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It’s not just China and Mexico that are taking US jobs… Now, thanks to Barack Obama, Cuba will be building American tractors.
Cleber Tractors is building a tractor plant in Cuba.
USA Today reported:
The Obama administration approved the first U.S. factory to be built and operated in Cuba in more than 50 years, in the latest sign of the rapidly changing relationship between the United States and the communist nation.
Cleber LLC, an Alabama-based company that builds tractors for small farms, was notified by the Treasury Department that it could open a facility in Cuba. Co-founder Saul Berenthal said the company’s attorney was in Havana on Monday to start the lengthy process of finalizing the agreement with the Cuban government and hopes to start production by early 2017.
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That’s what I was wondering. I’m not a farmer but have never heard of this company or seen a contraption like the one shown..
That makes sense; Allis Chalmers G’s were built in Alabama.
But the fact is that they stopped making them over 60 years ago and there are much better, more modern tractors available on the market for less than the cost of reproducing one of those antiques.
I smell dead fish.
Thank you. I’ve never seen anything like that machine. Looks more like a go-cart frame...
Nice catch.
About 30 years ago, the Ag Engineers at Iowa State had a project to design a tractor that a village blacksmith could make most of the repairs on. That’s what this looks like to me.
Did look up the old ones had 10 horse to draw-bar not as much power as i thought the new ones have 20 and the starting price is under $10,000 most small modern tractors start at about twice that
But for the same money, you can buy, say, a Ford 2910 or a John Deere 5200 and have a much more modern, powerful and better in every way tractor.
What’s the advantage of one of these things over a horse or an ox?
Where I have seen them used is the truck gardens the Mennonites will plant big ones in the range of 3-4 acres of beans alone with one of these they are light so do not compact ground and you can plant and till much faster than by hand and to try that with horses or oxen would be slower and a lot more problems
are they perfect for all farming no but they fill a small special spot and there its all you need
That would appear to be cost justified for a 60 year old Allis Chalmers G, it doesn’t appear to make sense for a new tractor.
I can see it would have some useful applications, with hydraulics, pto, and many attachments that could be offered, but I think there would be small machines that would be cheaper and more efficient.
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Deal would be quashed in a split second if the tractor people insisted on paying the workers directly.
When he visits the Castro brothers next month, will they kiss or bow? A.total disgrace. Will he get to see the Potemkin villages, or just party, gawk at fancy cars, and forget the concentration camps for political and social dissidents, evangelical Christians and homosexuals.
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