The Path to One Color......

Bill VA · Feb 19, 2016

Started with
MF50 Diesel - Red
MF32 Sickle Mower - Red
JD 350 rake - Green
New Holland 68 baler - Red

Then added
New Holland 156 tedder - Red
JD 5055d diesel - Green
Hesston 1110 haybine - Orange
JD 348 baler - Green

4 red - 3 green - 1 orange. None of the above were bought with a particular brand/color in mind. Doubt it will ever be 100% one brand/color in my fleet, but definitely of late, trending JD/green.

Anyone started out one brand, like 100% AC/orange (as an example) years ago and without consideration for brand loyalty, found themselves with barn full of one brand, i.e. JD/green, etc?

In my case, the brand/color changes/additions really had nothing brand, but available offerings that fit the need and budget - however, there is one dealer, while I'll use them if I have a need, given their propensity to screw the customer, shed no tear when I bring home equipment not sold by them. I'm sure a lot of color changes over the years came when a dealer stuck it to the farmer and lost a generation of sales.

rrlund · Feb 19, 2016

I had gone pretty much all Deere at one time,yes. The local dealer also handled Gehl,so the exception was the Gehl stuff that I had,but,we all know what happened then don't we?
Now it's a combination of mostly Agco brands and short line stuff that the Agco dealer has handled. Gehl,Kuhn, and a bunch of Agco derivatives,Oliver,White,Massey,New Idea.

Bruce from Can. · Feb 19, 2016

I started out with J.I.Case Tractor and IH equipment . Because that was what was handy . Then went to IH/CaseIH tractors and equipment cause that is what I knew. Got a bit fed up and tired Ford/NH . All of these units had good and bad. I now have 3 J.I.Case tractors , 1 IH tractor and 2 Kubota tractors. My Case/IH dealer became a Kubota dealer , that is what led me this way ,and a few other things. I hold no stock in any tractor company , and will buy whatever brand will fill my needs , and meet my budget. Bruce

Bob Bancroft · Feb 19, 2016

Before my time, my family started out pretty much all JD. Waterloo Boy, D, A, AR, B, etc. and all JD implements. There were several dealers nearby. One was family. Then a well liked neighbor started selling for an AC dealer. 1950 they bought a new AC WD, wide front, and some time in there, a roto-baler. The baler was gone before my recollection. But my cousin still has the WD. So after the WD there has been some AC around here. I have an assortment.

tracto-man · Feb 19, 2016

I'm a ford tractor guy, but I can't stand the cars and trucks. My First tractor was my Grandpa's '39 9N and I've kinda been a Ford tractor guy ever since. Only have 1 tractor that's not a ford, a MF 65 diesel.

notjustair · Feb 19, 2016

The only thing we had when I was growing up that wasn't IH was the drill and planter. Those were both Deere. I started out with IH and still have every one I've bought, but quickly transitioned to Deere when I began to farm full time. The only decent dealer around here is Deere and they are a small town feel even though they have four locations. I know the owner and respect him.

Most implements are now green and the combine and four tractors are green. I have my 886 I use for chores but use only green for field work. I think they make some great products and I think they make some junk. Pretty much like every other maker has ever been.

Oh, and I have a little 8N for around the barnyard. It's a handy little sucker that I bought because I learned to drive tractor with one. It was the one tractor I had driven and been around that wasn't IH up until I started farming. Dad loved that little Ford. Grandpa wouldn't tolerate it. His Ford experience amounted to an early select-o-speed, and we know how that turned out.

Welding man · Feb 19, 2016

When I grew up, there wasn't much of a choice, in my area.It was a Ford or nothing, that was the only dealer we had for miles. Then in the early 70's we got a Massey-Ferguson dealer. He did very well.Then we had 2 choices. The Deeres really didn't come along until the 80's. We saw very few Farmalls or Internationals and never an Oliver or a White. After all these years the Fords are still the dominate tractor.I have 6 and don't even farm. The biggest dairy farmer in the county has 8, all the way up to a TW25 and they get used 7 days a week. Kubotas are getting popular. The Green has a small presence but they are not #1 in my neck of the woods by any means.

JayinNY · Feb 19, 2016

For me with tractors it's older Fords, 4600 and 4610 just real reliable tractors and easy on fuel, I would never take a new New Holland over those older Fords, I was so a Chevy truck man, then went to Ford trucks too..I do have an farm all H but that's just novelty more than anything very useful,

Donald Lehman · Feb 19, 2016

Pop started out with a Allis WC and a Farmall M. Since then it has been Oliver and JD, with an old Cockshutt 30 thrown in for good measure. Equipment has been about everything under the sun.

Ted in NE-OH · Feb 19, 2016

100% AC Orange 14 tractors

centash · Feb 19, 2016

Have 3 JD tractors, but every colour of the rainbow in equipment. We were well serviced with dealers in this area, so each got some of my business over the years.

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Benj R · Feb 19, 2016

Our first Tractor came in the fall of 1948, a used 1947 2n. This was our only tractor till the early 60s, after that came several Massey Harris tractors one D case and a slew of Fords,Ferguson,and 2 Massey Ferguson. I only have 10 acres left but still have the original 2n and 11 more Fords and Ferguson. So our colors would be several shades of gray, red, yellow, orange,and blue. The equipment was all colors.

flying H · Feb 19, 2016

If I have the facts correct. Dad's first tractor was a Case CC (Gray) but when he went to trade up to a newer tractor the dealer insisted he take the cultivator with the tractor. Dad wasn't going to buy the cultivator until he needed it and refused to deal for both. The salesman would have none of it and so Dad went down the street to the AC dealer and bought the WD. Later he got the cultivator, a mounted plow, mounted corn picker,mounted 2 row lister. The wd was his go to tractor for almost 40 years. The others came and went Farmall F 20, M, 400, and in the 60's Two 656's. We'd most likely been Case all the way if the salesman would have just traded tractors and forgot the cultivator for a while.

sms · Feb 20, 2016

My dad had two cylinder JD crawlers and an MT tractor, also a 1010 crawler later. When I set up my sawmill and needed a power unit I saw an ad for the 800 cubic inch MM cheap and bought it. Then researched the company thought they built some cool innovative stuff and started collecting them with some other colors thrown in.

vscummins · Feb 20, 2016

Dads first tractor was a McCormick I think I'll find the Picture latter than he went to allis charmers then bought another ih threw a rod threw the block the first day got rid of it and got another allis charmers then we went to John Deere been with em ever since John Deere tractors and ih implements I

Pair-a-dice farm · Feb 20, 2016

I started out with all 30 series Case tractors and NH hay equipment. I gradually have got a pretty good mix of just about everything now. IH, Ford, JD, NH, AC and about everything in between.]

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