tydp said:
What I've leaned form this thread: in this age of "tractor political correctness", the worst possible thing you can do is make a disparaging remark about a minority tractor brand. It will release a firestorm of personal criticism and result in highly offended minority brand tractor owners. Of course you can say anything you want about the Big 3 or 4 with no worries about retribution or being call a "tractor racist".
Don said:
You must have missed the thread(s) from 'Ramon', a disgruntled Kubota
L3130 owner that felt the tractor was severly underpowered.
Donnyj said:
Whats wrong with a little bit of fun? A picture is worth alot.
Here is my take on this part of the thread. First it is no longer productive. Second, while there is some humor being injected by some folks, there is also some mis-direction.
Ramon was simply unreasonable and proved himself to be so in the eyes of Kubota owners because he didn't know what to expect from a tractor and therefore expected things to perform differently than they did. However, unlike some of the issues brought up in this thread, his tractor was not broken, it was just his opinion that it should have been different.
As for the photo. It should be made pretty clear to everyone that there are a couple diffrent types of tractors out in the real world and contract manufacturering is a common practice, but posting that photo does not mean that a Daedong (Kioti) is a Deere anymore than a Yanmar is a Deere. Take a look at Ebay and look for Yanmars and show me the Yanmars that have the designs of a Deere. They don't exist. Yanmar, like Daedong, is a 'contract' manufacturer for Deere for specific models for specific markets. A typical contract manufacturer (Daedong) is typically forbidden from using the technology or designs of their customer (Deere) in their own product lines. Further, it is typcial that the customer (Deere) would have its own designs and quality control in place. Other companies that do this, where a company will have another manufacturer build to their specs would include Case, Massy, etc.
This is dramatically different than the "badge engineered" brands such as some models of Cub Cadet, Branson, Century, Montana or Mahindra with buy some (or all, depending on the brand) of their tractors from other companies and the models are virtually identical except for color.
However, all that said, the fact that Deere chose Daedong to act as a contract manufacturer for some specific Asian market tractors does show there is some level of confidence in Daedong's ability to build a quality product.
