I'll give a couple cases in point to show how bad it was for me with IH. Before I delve into that I will say that my enthusiasm has picked up over the last several years for IH. I remember back in 1976 the nearest IH dealer brought out a used 1466 with 5 bottom plow to rent with maybe buying it. That tractor needed fuel filters or air filters as the power was lacking. We went between 2nd and 3rd low which seemed to be a little slow according to our IH loving neighbor. The dealer responded that the tractor was fine. Further, the tractor's appearance was not what we expected for what should have been 5 years old at the most at that time. The rubber was around 50 percent . I believe that they wanted around 20,000 dollars for that tractor which we figured was several thousand dollars too high. All in all it seemed like this dealer did not want our business even though we had bought a number of things from them over the last dozen years. At the same time it seemed about everybody else wanted our business. Fast forward to the late 1990's when I joined a club that was not officially themed but had a number of IH guys. I had my 986 by this time. For the most part I got dirty looks and insults from a lot of the IH guys when they found out our farm was not all red. Never mind the fact that between the guys who actually farmed and those who previously farmed but retired my family's farm had more IH stuff than they did. In some cases quite a bit more. It boiled down to that I did not have as many IH tractors as some but the JD dealers took better care of us from the time of the 1466 incident until the mid-1990's. I could not get that simple point across to most of these guys. It mellowed a little as time went by but the club was in decline due to age and poor health of a lot of the members.
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