American Made Tractor

[EddieWalker]

You would have to design and then build a brand new type of diesel engine. To be made in the USA, it couldn't be what another company makes. Same thing with the transmission. Which means figuring out how to do this without coping what others have invented. With all the requirements for smog, I don't think it's possible to do this and make a profit. Even if you bought a closed down engine factory, it would have to be retooled to create this brand new type of diesel engine that doesn't already exist, then make enough of them to pay for the factory and employees. How many would you have to sell just to break even? How many years would that take?

Tesla has been trying to do something like this with their electric vehicles, and because of political connections, they get billions is subsidies, and they are still losing money.

Better idea would be to find a diesel engine that already exists that you can buy for a fair price, then do the same with the transmission, and most of the other parts. Build what you can, and call it partially built in America. Then over time, try to do more and more of it here. But you still have to problem of getting people to buy enough of them to make a profit. It would have to be a lot cheaper then what is already out there, or so advanced that everyone wanted one really bad.

 

[Newby first timer]

WOW!! $30K for insurance on a Patent? Never had a patent, no clue it would cost like that.

Ya
it was for an Trailer Hitch Attachment that no body but me wanted.
Tried to license it to the big Manufacturers and they came back with I built it to good and that it would not Fail.
That is the American Corporations point of view sale Crap so it breaks and you have to buy more Crap from them.

Sorry for my Rant and getting off topic.

 

[NoTrespassing]

I hope you take this as a compliment -- you think like an economist.*

Steve

* At least on this issue.

I do, thank you very much.

 

[Creamer]

Ya
it was for an Trailer Hitch Attachment that no body but me wanted.
Tried to license it to the big Manufacturers and they came back with I built it to good and that it would not Fail.
That is the American Corporations point of view sale Crap so it breaks and you have to buy more Crap from them.

Sorry for my Rant and getting off topic.

So start your marketing right here and now. the internet can be your friend and opens up a lot of options for individuals that pre-internet just weren't there. Don't give up because if you wanted so did others. Managers at corporations have a lot of NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) and it is one of the worst diseases out there.

 

[RSKY]

Part of the problem may be that tractors are a relatively long lived product. People are still using tractors built in the fifties. So relative to the amount of investment needed to build a factory to produce a complete unit the business is low volume. If they are not capable of lasting decades then they will not sell.

Hope I got the idea across.

RSKY