Comparing the orange forums to the green forums.

[Dargo]

Roy! Get outa the Kubota forum! Somebody's gonna sneak by your house and paint your tractor orange if you don't watch out! I've already had to separate my tractors to different barns. You've seen a picture of them; you know they can't possibly co-exist in the same barn!

 

[RoyJackson]

Roy! Get outa the Kubota forum! Somebody's gonna sneak by your house and paint your tractor orange if you don't watch out! I've already had to separate my tractors to different barns. You've seen a picture of them; you know they can't possibly co-exist in the same barn!

Orange...rather then Rustoleum?
No prob!

 

[LBrown59]

I have owned 2 JD tractors(4300 and 4320cab). Before I bought them I was color blind as to which brand to buy. My local JD dealer beat MF, KB, and the NH dealers "with same comparable tractors" HANDS down. I've never needed any service/warranty work as of yet but I know my dealer is a man of his word and his reputation is excellent. Where I'm from the "pay more for green" statement is absolutely false. I've paid less for green both times. It took some customer product buying wisdom and about 3 days of price discussion to get the JD's at a better price. The money I saved was well worth it. If I could have got a better deal for the same comparable tractor at another dealer I would have gave them my business. *The "Green cost more than others" statement is ridicules.


ArkLaTexSam

in some cases perhaps but not always.

 

[LBrown59]

Thank God for JD, its been great meeting my neighbors in their fields and towing their Deere ( with my Kubota ) over to my Barn/shop to repair a failed component. Deere has a great parts network ( compare them to the CAT house) and engineering to back them up too. Funny, I've got Deeres to left, Deeres to the right and I'm stuck in the middle with 6 Kubotas'.

You got me beat.
I only have 1 and 2 on the way.

 

[chetlenox]

Not sure why I have the urge to jump into this hornets nest, but just a couple of comments:

1) I liked jcmseven's reasonable, even response.
2) My JD 4520 was built in Georgia (engine built in Moline)
3) I don't see any appreciable "tone" difference in the forums.
4) Both Kubota and JD tractor seem to be well-built machines to me.

Ahh... see, now I feel better.

Chet.

 

[ducati996]

A thread like this dosent last in the Deere forum especially when orange isnt painted in the brightest of colors. But I see this thread still carrying on months later? why? because there is a clear bias for Kubota IMHO - unfortunate to say the least

 

[ovrszd]

A thread like this dosent last in the Deere forum especially when orange isnt painted in the brightest of colors. But I see this thread still carrying on months later? why? because there is a clear bias for Kubota IMHO - unfortunate to say the least

Would you suggest that bias is any way unfounded or discriminatory??

 

[ducati996]

Would you suggest that bias is any way unfounded or discriminatory??

A bias is a prejudice in a general or specific sense, usually in the sense for having a preference to one particular point of view or ideological perspective. However, one is generally only said to be biased if one's powers of judgment are influenced by the biases one holds, to the extent that one's views could not be taken as being neutral or objective, but instead as subjective. A bias could, for example, lead one to accept or deny the truth of a claim, not on the basis of the strength of the arguments in support of the claim themselves, but because of the extent of the claim's correspondence with one's own preconceived ideas. This is called confirmation bias.

 

[Killer_B]

A thread like this dosent last in the Deere forum especially when orange isnt painted in the brightest of colors. But I see this thread still carrying on months later? why? because there is a clear bias for Kubota IMHO - unfortunate to say the least

All else being equal, a thread should last twice as long in the Kub forum as the JD, because there are twice as many people (presumably Kub owners) posting in that forum. 9,011 post in the JD vs. 18,305 in Kub at this moment.

 

[ducati996]

All else being equal, a thread should last twice as long in the Kub forum as the JD, because there are twice as many people (presumably Kub owners) posting in that forum. 9,011 post in the JD vs. 18,305 in Kub at this moment.

I see many Deere owners posting in the kubota forums, myself included - contributing to the threads - so there is much cross pollination