Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Perfect! Obama Moves Tractor Factory to Cuba
The Gateway Pundit ^ | 2/15/16 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 02/15/2016 11:53:44 AM PST by Nachum

Si Se Puede!
It’s not just China and Mexico that are taking US jobs… Now, thanks to Barack Obama, Cuba will be building American tractors.
cuba 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.


(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...


TOPICS: Cuba; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cleber; cuba; factory; giantsuckingsound; manufacturing; tractor
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-73 next last
To: Timpanagos1

Yep...They sure are...
Just like all the American money invested in Cuba pre-1959...


41 posted on 02/15/2016 12:35:28 PM PST by JBW1949
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: Nachum

Where are the cigars?


42 posted on 02/15/2016 12:38:54 PM PST by onedoug
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Nachum
The tractor in the photograph looks like an Allis Chalmers model G made in the 1950's. My father started working there as a key punch operator in the computer room the year I was born.
43 posted on 02/15/2016 12:40:49 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! Trump 2016 - and Dude, Cruz ain't bona fide either)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Fungi

Sounds tasty...


44 posted on 02/15/2016 12:43:18 PM PST by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 39 | View Replies]

To: Nachum
Holly smokes!

It is!

Clemmons and Berenthal have hired an engineering firm to build the first tractors based on the simple designs of the Allis-Chalmers G model that was made in the United States from 1948 to 1955. It was specially tailored to the type of small family farms that have mostly disappeared in the United States, but remain the standard in Cuba.
I am shocked. I love that tractor but I would only have the original built in the town I was born, Gadsden, Alabama, in the year I was born.
45 posted on 02/15/2016 12:44:55 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! Trump 2016 - and Dude, Cruz ain't bona fide either)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SZonian

My recipe, made it once off the cuff and turned out fantastic! Have not made it since. Make it one cup on the sherry, almost to cover the meat.


46 posted on 02/15/2016 12:47:27 PM PST by Fungi
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 44 | View Replies]

To: Fungi

Thanks, I appreciate the tip and the recipe.


47 posted on 02/15/2016 12:50:21 PM PST by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 46 | View Replies]

To: JohnBrowdie

“the law of unintended consequences strikes again.”

I don’t think this was unintended at all...I wonder what under the table incentives were given to this company to build in Cuba, of all places.


48 posted on 02/15/2016 12:56:15 PM PST by lacrew
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Mr. Lucky
Its a copy of a Allis-Chalmers G model late 40’s to mid 50’s it was used on small farms and truck gardens about 30 horsepower still a bit of market for them

One reason for making in cuba I would guess is they can make them using old engine design and not worry about the polluting stuff and all that for small farms and gardens will work great

49 posted on 02/15/2016 1:15:38 PM PST by mouser (Run the rats out its the only chance we have)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: mouser

More like about 10 HP. Modern garden tractors (lawn mowers) have 25 HP easily. This thing didn’t sell 60 years ago, so why would it sell now?


50 posted on 02/15/2016 1:25:32 PM PST by ozzymandus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 49 | View Replies]

To: mouser

You would think more modern stuff cheap from China would be what the folks want.

China is Cuba’s #2 trade partner after Venezuela.


51 posted on 02/15/2016 1:30:01 PM PST by nascarnation (RIP Scalia. Godspeed)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 49 | View Replies]

To: Timpanagos1
The tractor company from Alabama is assuming that risk on their own free will.
Maybe, but what do you want to bet the taxpayers and other local citizens subsidized the company's profits through property tax breaks, utility rates etc. so they would be able to "risk on their own free will"?
52 posted on 02/15/2016 1:32:18 PM PST by lewislynn (Ted Cruz: " I'll never have 'a plane with my name" …(or a Presidential seal))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: JBW1949

I’m sure Hugo Chavez taught them a thing or two. Wait until you see the profits begin THEN move in. For the common good, of course. After all, they didn’t build that!


53 posted on 02/15/2016 1:34:26 PM PST by griswold3 (Just another unlicensed nonconformist in am dangerous Liberal world.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: Nachum

That’s not a tractor— it’s a go-cart with large wheels. Have a question about the powertrain, PTO, HP and much else.

The “investment” owners background should, of course, be immediately suspect, as to their political baksheesh kickback to the dhimorats.

Alabama? Really- they couldn’t sell or make enough in Alabama. Not vs. guarenteed US paid for advance orders. LOL.


54 posted on 02/15/2016 1:48:50 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ASOC

Incredible. I know Tuff-Bilt. This ripoff took some balls— the design is Tuff-Bilts.

Someone, an attorney needs to sue the crap out of the “investor” lying dhimorats from San Francisco who have stolen the design.

Patents for the Tuff- Bilt? Don’t know. If this man is getting ripped off for his life’s work— it is SOOOO typical of these lying liberal weenies. Who rip off high tech companies also— it’s what weasels do.


55 posted on 02/15/2016 1:53:59 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: Osage Orange

“Oh, then that makes it okay!!! /s”

That’s right. Because you know you live in a free country when your government can tell you what you can build, where you can build it, and to whom you may sell it.


56 posted on 02/15/2016 1:54:53 PM PST by rey
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: ASOC

The Allis Chalmers 1948 G Model, which Tuff=Bilt copied?

http://www.tractordata.com/farm-tractors/000/0/0/6-allis-chalmers-g.html


57 posted on 02/15/2016 1:56:54 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: ozzymandus
the reason it did not sell was it is built around a hanging piece of equipment in front of the driver Everything else was made to pull with a draw-bar and it has no pro to run balers and such stuff for what it was designed it did quite well it was made for small orchard and truck garden farms a spot it filled just too small a market And yes in some ways today's larger lawn tractors fill this place
58 posted on 02/15/2016 2:02:34 PM PST by mouser (Run the rats out its the only chance we have)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 50 | View Replies]

To: nascarnation
The more modern stuff will probably cost more but who knows hopefully they looked into this before they started

its a very small tractor by today's standards for small farming and it might find a spot in the market in that part of the world

59 posted on 02/15/2016 2:07:11 PM PST by mouser (Run the rats out its the only chance we have)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]

To: Nachum

That’s an IN-YOUR-FACE to Trump.


60 posted on 02/15/2016 2:11:54 PM PST by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-73 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson