bubs
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Hello Farmertony!I hope you found a ticket to SA in your stocking. A farmer report of the activity there would be welcomed. There will surely be some heads rolling with the JD engine issue. They must not know the how, where, when, and maybe not who, on their failures. I have a friend or two that have had no problems at 400 hrs. but also know a couple that had to pick up the pieces. As one fellow stated, "The tractor stops suddenly when the pieces blow out on the front tires." I take no pleasure in JD's grief, but know we all buy from the same mentality of competition. The last couple of years, Big Red smelled like "poop."We now have a moment of healing but as usual we are probably on a roller coaster. Tier 3 engines will bring a whole new kid on the block. Bigger radiators, more HP, MORE FUEl, excess heat to disapate.FIRE,FIRE,FIRE. I invite new and better inventions but I am also a realist and know that a price will be paid, often in the field of use. Too many of our,present day engineers, have never held a wheat straw in their teeth, a corn cob in their hand as they went to the bushes, or spent time with their arm and sharp knife extended into the belly of a silent beast pulling and cutting blindly at the tangled mass of material that the machine has refused to thresh. I really would like to buy a product that concentrates more on the job at hand and not so much on a feature that tickles my butt a thousand times a minute or that will shut my combine down if I raise up to scratch the unknown distrubance. Young farmers should have a sweetie at home to share their tickle and old farmers,---well, they probably just need to scratch. It is a great time of year.Beans are now a bit over six bucks---hope for a little more, but they are now better than a while back. Watch greed-it has stolen more profit than the BOT. Pray for rain in Texas and OK.