John Deere wasting their $$$

[riptides]

It's hard not to think that quality is a given in all businesses today. JD, Kubota or any other major tractor company.

I don't understand prices being so different but when the delta is so big it just seems natural to buy the cheaper model.

I am not following you on this, I think IMHO that control is more difficult these days when it comes to end product. With global markets, global suppliers, farmed distribution and assembly. Quality is good enough to the specifications, but when it comes to overall product, that one critical part or point can doom your "control".

I find it interesting that some manufactures boast (too harsh a word) about how much of their product is actually totally under their roof. I *think* that *could* be a good thing. "Controlling" your supply chain can get expensive.

-Mike Z.

 

[DiezNutz]

Also explains why we don't see any Japanese posters on TBN (I don't know, is there a Japanese TBN?) Who better to extoll the virtues of that Orange stuff we just can't get enough of.

 

[Fug1000]

Getting back to the ad at the top of the page in question.

Why would you ever want to haul a tree and grade the (flat) lawn at the same time because that's what it looks like he is doing.

 

[BillyP]

As far as ads go, where would be a better place to have a John Deere ad than the Kubota forum LMFAO

 

[dannydan3]

Getting back to the ad at the top of the page in question.

Why would you ever want to haul a tree and grade the (flat) lawn at the same time because that's what it looks like he is doing.

Anyone silly enough to pay that much for greene paint!

 

[BrianW]

As far as ads go, where would be a better place to have a John Deere ad than the Kubota forum LMFAO

At a Harley, Mercedes, BMW, Lexus, ect. dealership!

 

[BillyP]

At a Harley, Mercedes, BMW, Lexus, ect. dealership!

Hey... That would be a good idea, since John Deere is supposedly the "Cadillac" (myth that some people have a hard time dealing with) of tractors. Not sure though that those companies would support TBN? Harley might but I doubt the rest would? What do you think?

 

[Northland]

Buy a Deere over a 'Bota???

At this John Deere dealer, I don't think you're allowed to buy a Deere!!

That dealer is actually NorthShore Tractor in Northern Ontario who I bought a BX23 from last fall- I sent it back- long story and bought a B7800 from a great dealer in Michigan.

They don't sell too many Deere products

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[Taiser]

I can't even get a CUT Deere here (I looked) and this is a 100,000 + town. They still service them, but the nearest dealer was going to be about 300 km away if I wanted to buy a deere and I would not have hesitated had the right one come along.

The Deere's sold here now are all industrial bush machines. I was told the market was not that good for the CUT's here by the Deere dealer and the dude that took care of the CUT sales retired so they dropped the line...funny the Kubota's are doing fine, so is the Cub dealer. I'm guessing the Deere prices were making it hard for sales here.

Most CUT's here are not sold for commercial use (the odd one is) so if the average life span of a good diesel CUT is 4-5000 hours (maybe a lot more) than ANY good CUT will last your lifetime, maybe even your kids as a hand-me-down too for average home use. Why spend the extra $$$$. I doubt that once all my landscaping is done and my B7800 becomes a overkill lawnmower/garden machine that it will see more than 60-100 hours a year. That's a LOOOONNNNNNNGGGGG life span!

 

[ArtVandelay]

I can't even get a CUT Deere here (I looked) and this is a 100,000 + town. They still service them, but the nearest dealer was going to be about 300 km away if I wanted to buy a deere and I would not have hesitated had the right one come along.

The Deere's sold here now are all industrial bush machines. I was told the market was not that good for the CUT's here by the Deere dealer and the dude that took care of the CUT sales retired so they dropped the line...funny the Kubota's are doing fine, so is the Cub dealer. I'm guessing the Deere prices were making it hard for sales here.

Most CUT's here are not sold for commercial use (the odd one is) so if the average life span of a good diesel CUT is 4-5000 hours (maybe a lot more) than ANY good CUT will last your lifetime, maybe even your kids as a hand-me-down too for average home use. Why spend the extra $$$$. I doubt that once all my landscaping is done and my B7800 becomes a overkill lawnmower/garden machine that it will see more than 60-100 hours a year. That's a LOOOONNNNNNNGGGGG life span!

Kubota simply makes better CUTs than Deere, and consumers know this. That's why the Deere CUTs aren't selling as well.


Buy American? NO THANKS!

 

[radman1]

Kubota simply makes better CUTs than Deere, and consumers know this. That's why the Deere CUTs aren't selling as well.


Buy American? NO THANKS!

For a guy who probably has about 10 hours on his new kubota, you seem to have most of the answers on CUT's. I have owned Kubota's (3710, B1700), JD's (3720, 5300), Case/IH (DX29) CUT's and I have opinions about each brand but I still don't know enough to make the broad statements you do.

 

[JerryG]

For a guy who probably has about 10 hours on his new kubota, you seem to have most of the answers on CUT's. I have owned Kubota's (3710, B1700), JD's (3720, 5300), Case/IH (DX29) CUT's and I have opinions about each brand but I still don't know enough to make the broad statements you do.

Holy smokes. You mean he has actually got that thing now?