Perfect! Obama Moves Tractor Factory to Cuba

The Gateway Pundit ^ | 2/15/16 | Jim Hoft

[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.

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.

[JBW1949]

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

[onedoug]

Where are the cigars?

[higgmeister]

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.

[SZonian]

Sounds tasty...

[higgmeister]

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.

[Fungi]

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.

[SZonian]

Thanks, I appreciate the tip and the recipe.

[lacrew]

“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.

[mouser]

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

[ozzymandus]

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?

[nascarnation]

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

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

[lewislynn]

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"?

[griswold3]

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!

[John S Mosby]

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.

[John S Mosby]

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.

[rey]

“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.

[John S Mosby]

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

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

[mouser]

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

[mouser]

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

[Tucker39]

That’s an IN-YOUR-FACE to Trump.