Japanese made tractor?

fivestring · Jan 23, 2004

Companion to the American made tractor thread.
Since it appears that the majority of ours is built or assembled from parts from there......

Are there any Japanese made tractors?
Are Kubs, Isekis, Yannies, etc. 100% Japanese?

BillyP · Jan 23, 2004

The way the world market is today, I doubt it.

Von · Jan 23, 2004

I think everything but the ROPS on my B2710 is made in Japan The loader and snowblower read Made in USA, but the mower deck is Japan.

rdam · Jan 23, 2004

My LA723 Loader says "Made in the USA" !!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

AndyM · Jan 24, 2004

Nowdays, the Japanese companies have discovered cheap factory labor in China and Malaysia, putting factory workers in their own country out of work. It sure sounds familiar!

As someone pointed out in a previous thread, the Japanese companies have also discovered that it is cheaper to produce tractors and automobiles in this country, lately in Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia.

PineRidge · Jan 24, 2004

Andy I think it may be that if all goods were made here in the USA then a lot of us would have to do without them because of the higher costs involved with production & labor.

AndyM · Jan 24, 2004

There was a time when ALL manufactured goods that were used domesticly were produced in this country. As foreign competitors came in, the U.S. companies either had to compete by making their products less expensive. This happened by either making a cheaper quality or moving production where there are cheaper labor costs (or both).

A local manufacturing company in our area is consolidating operations to lower overhead (I'm sure you saw it in the local paper yesterday). Much of our production has been moved off shore in the past few years, but we are trying to do our best to be able to compete with everything that we have remaining. We are selling products for the same price we sold them for 25 years ago. The cost of making them goes up, but we have been forced to maintain prices to stay in business.

( Andy I think it may be that if all goods were made here in the USA then a lot of us would have to do without them because of the higher costs involved with production & labor. )

I don't think we would have to do without, we just wouldn't be able to buy the products for the prices we have learned to EXPECT to buy them for. That $299 Hoover vacuum cleaner is now $80 and the $349 color tv is now $99. Our society wants it cheaper, and it is given to them, and no one thinks of the future consequences. If everyone is eventually out of work, who will be able to buy the foreign products that are coming here?

PineRidge · Jan 24, 2004

Well its easy to see how its happening. We all demand lower prices and WalMart delivers. WalMart then dictates to the manufacturers what they will pay for a particular item. Most companies caught in the middle like Tupperware and Levi's can't compete with the imports and as a result are hurt badly.

But if you sit in the parking lot of any WalMart you will see and endless sea of people filling their trunks with merchandise of all types. I wonder if the shoppers think about how they may be affecting their very own jobs? No, I guess not. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

The very same goes for automobiles and equipment such as tractors. Just imagine for a minute if WalMart got hold of the John Deere line like Home Depot did. What a disaster that would be!

fivestring · Jan 27, 2004

"Just imagine for a minute if WalMart got hold of the John Deere line like Home Depot did."

Just imagine.....
What would happen if Walmart decided to shut down?

AndyM · Jan 27, 2004

( Just imagine.....
What would happen if Walmart decided to shut down?)

I find that these kind of things run in cycles. Walmart may have a great management team running their company today, but who's to say they won't be like Kmart in another 20 years.

110 years ago, Montgomery Wards was one of the largest companies in the country. If you told someone back then that they would be out of business by 2002, they would never belive you. If you said 100 years ago there would be no Sears catalog today, people would laugh! As recently as the 1970's, the great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company had 1000's of grocery stores in nearly every state. Today, A&P is down to a handful of stores in a few states.

For several years in the 1910's, Studebaker was the second best selling car, behind Ford. There were a couple of years in the early 1960's that Rambler was third in automobile production, behind Chevrolet and Ford. There were also a few years in the early to mid 1980's that Oldsmobile ranked third.

Oldsmobile from third in auto sales to a non-existent division of GM within 20 years? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif Walmart has made tremendous changes in American lifestyle, economy, and the way day to day business is done in general in the past 20 years. Who's to say where Walmart will be in 20 years? For all we know, Microsoft could have started their own brand of stores by then! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif