Posted by Hugh MacKay on January 02, 2008 at 08:20:29 from (209.226.106.39):
In Reply to: Re: 656 posted by Steven f/AZ on January 02, 2008 at 06:12:30:
Steven: I forgot to mention, having monitored YT for close to 8 years now, most of growling about 560 rear ends came from the US Mid West Corn Belt. Those were the guys that managed to destroy 560 rear ends doing less than 500 hours per year.
If you had great numbers of 560 out on the western plains, very likely 560 affected much less than the 50,000 customers I earlier suggested.
I have to sit back and chuckle when I read these books written by professor types outlining the reasons for the IH down fall. Most of them missed the boat by about ten years. 8 years after Cockshutt and Oliver, IH introduced IPTO in the MTA in 1954. Harry Ferguson won the hitch war before IH sold their first fast hitch. IH flogged fast hitch on 40+ hp tractors for 8 years. Those two items cost IH hundreds of thousands of customers, customers that never returned even when IH saw the light.
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