tbran
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To wit: n1. The engineers sold the idea of one combine fits all needs to mgmt. - Mgmt has a new face, that is changing. n2. Engineering mentality - if it is not my idea it will not work. - that is also changing but at a slower rate n3. They are petrified to find a kernal of grain on the ground. Thus the idea is to back the material up and beat it to death to get every kernal out and separated. That has changed with the CDF cylinder. n4. Change takes money and development time and energy and testing. This is not good return , short term to stockholders. longer range vision now exists. n5. Much energy has been expended to bring the MF up to snuff , we feel at the expense of the R series, that is my feelings and my opinion. n6. MAny of the things we do are for corn and soybeans, Wheat is what has driven the sales in the past. That is changing. n7. The R85 and MF equiv. has been a consuming project. In flat lands the 85 might be usefull. However in rolling hills the lack of accelerator rolls and the advent of the cdf cylinder plus our 'tweaks' will put the R75 at an equal to the 85 if it had the bigger bin. n8. lack of dealers in the south and mid south. This is where the demand or necessity for the hyper mods are mandatory. The hyperization makes the units perform over the stock machine. Here in our territory in green stem beans (I am talking dry 50 bu soybeans with 60% green leaves and stalks that will yield water when twisted) stock machine will not run. Thus the hyper mods. n9. All this has finally 'sunk in' to the folks at Duluth. Change is slowly on the way. n10 can't post - infringes on letterman's top ten list