John Deere sold Renault tractors too

WIZZO · May 25, 2015

When JD Manhiem Germany stopped producing the popular 2650/2850 tractors in the early 90's they bought in Renault Ceres tractors and painted them green & yellow. There was huge backlash against JD in Britain, few were sold during the 2 years they were available.

jm. · May 25, 2015

Mother Deer is all about money, they sold a lot of Yanmar units in the us for years without telling the folks.

JD Seller · May 25, 2015

JM that would have been the compact utility tractors, like the 650,750,etc. I don't know where you get that JD did not tell anyone. It is and was very common knowledge that those compacts where built by Yanmar. The small diesels in the JD compacts today are still Yanmar built in a joint owned plant. The premium compacts have been built in Augusta, Georgia since the late 1990s. The value compacts where still Yanmar built, like the 790 and 990.

There is not going to be a value based tractor built in the US with the higher production cost here. So it will not just be JD importing those tractors from Mexico, China, Korea, or India. All the major brand have imported value tractors.

K Effective · May 25, 2015

My coworker, former Deere service manager, and I were just talking about the Yanmar-built Deeres- he said he could not remember an overhaul on a single one of the 770/870/970/1070 or 790/1090 versions. They sold them and never saw most again, a few came back for regular service, but few or no major issues.

I am toying with an update of my Woods zero-turn, a 72" deck under a tractor may actually be faster now that we have far fewer trees to circumnavigate.

rrlund · May 25, 2015

I'll tell you the tractor I'd like to find,SAME built a few tractors for Oliver that were only sold in Europe. Have you ever seen one?

WIZZO · May 25, 2015

(quoted from post at 14:09:49 05/25/15) I'll tell you the tractor I'd like to find,SAME built a few tractors for Oliver that were only sold in Europe. Have you ever seen one?

Oliver were not sold in Britain after WW2, which model did SAME make for Oliver. Got a photo?

SAME is a specialist in orchard & fruitetto & vinyard style tractors. They have made these for several major companies over many years.

Winchester1 · May 25, 2015

The 3000 series compact utility tractor sold today is based on a Renault tractor with a Deere engine.

bison · May 25, 2015

(quoted from post at 15:03:48 05/25/15) The 3000 series compact utility tractor sold today is based on a Renault tractor with a Deere engine.

used to work as mechanic/welder/machinist for a Renault tractor dealer in Holland.
Them were good tractors they had German build MWM air and water cooled diesels as powerplant.

The compact ones with frnt whl assist were popular in the green houses but they had to long a turn radius.
I got the job to figure out how to shorten them up and mount the front axle back 2 feet. I modified around 10-12 of them.
This was 35 years ago.

Dave in Tx · May 25, 2015

I have a 990 with a loader that has close to 3000 hrs on it that has only had the battery and seat changed. On the second set of tires that are close to worn out. I couldn't want for a better tractor. I also care not that it is Yanmar, I can get parts for it.

rrlund · May 25, 2015

I've got a couple of pictures of a model 452. They were made from about 1970 until 1975. The first two numbers of each model indicated the horsepower while the last number meant two or four wheel drive. Mechanically they were identical to the SAME tractors.
The 452/4 was a SAME Aurora. The 562/4 was a SAME Minitauro. The 682/4 was a Corsaro,782/4 was a Saturno. There was a 672/4 too,but I don't know which model SAME that was. The 982/4 was a SAME Drago.

In addition to that,White bought the Italian Arbos combine line and sold them as Oliver Arbos combines Africa and South America as well as in Italy.

jm. · May 25, 2015

Agreed... They never tried to hid it but sure did not brag about it.. I agree about the mounting cost of production here in the states is going to force most be built off shore.

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