Posted by NY 986 on December 17, 2010 at 11:06:37 from (69.171.163.8):
In Reply to: Re: MFPoor posted by pete 23 on December 17, 2010 at 10:13:44:
The 1420's did well here for the number of combines sold in general back in the day. Problem with the 1420/1620 combines is they had a lot of parts that were unique to them versus the larger 1400/1600 series combines so the overhead to build was comparatively high. The older IH's just did not cut it and a lot of red guys here had Gleanor or Deere machines. In regards to RR Lund's comment about the AC combines they were extremely popular up till the 1980's here with AC having a number of strong dealers here in NY. In the last decade and change a lot of those farmers have just turned the page on buying silver and either buying Deere or CaseIH so I don't know how well the recon combine business would do. AGCO was supposed to dust off the blue prints of the F3 and start building some updated version but I don't think it ever came to fruition. In the end JDemaris and others are right that if there were sufficient economic motivation some manufacturer would respond to the demand. I do worry about used stuff for my size operation getting extremely scarce because some of those sizes have not been built in some time. I've heard for some time that any of the manufacturers that build 6 row corn planters have considered discontinuing that size (groan).
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