Looked and finally bought

[pholt]

Nice looking tractor. Cab looks slick. Something I noticed that I didn't like is that the loader looks very petite. The FEL arms look very thin & light. Maybe they're thicker walled steel to make up for it.

I hope it works out for you!

I think the Loader is SUPER HUGE, it is a Humpeloc they are made in the Czech repulic and they are used on the Zetor, it is MUCH heavier than my Koaker loaders, and would compare in build quality to my MF and Bush Hog loader, The loader is VERY VERY heavy at least 1/4, I will post some better pics, it should be the loader was **** near 5 grand. It is not a Korean or Chineese loader,.

$5,000 savings is a lot of money. I respect a guy who will buy a tractor from Korea or China. I need at least Japan, Europe or USA on mine, but that's just my worthless point of view. I got called a "myopic racist" on another website for saying that.

I hope it works out for you!

Here is how I look at it. I like American too, I drive a Dodge with a Cummins. But until the welders and factory workers in this country change there minds in thinking they have to make $45.00 per hour John Deere and the rest will still build oversees they have no choice. John Deere DOES NOT BUILD ANYTHING UNDER 100 h.p, they dont even touch it. My dad is at the John Deere plant in Iowa as we speak, PS John Deere will paint your tractor any color you want it now, except RED,,, ha ha, that is true. I hate to give my money to other countires, but this machine is built in South Korea and they love america, they always have, Japan hates us, China wants all of us dead, so I am ok with the purchase. My wife does own a Honda and I was not happy about it but Soichiro Honda Loved the US, and the people, now the owners who know they probably want us on a stick. Also did you know Jinma is one of the largest selling tractors IN THE WORLD. I had no idea but they out sell most all the others, except in places they do lots of construction or mining.

 

[pholt]

**** it does not matter anymore, I am American through and through, I try to buy only American, but once John Deere was bought out by Hitachi, it was all over, well it will be all over once Toyota, picks off one of the soon to be dead 3, we will just have to drop a bomb and start over I guess. Off to mow, sorry for the long post guys, just wanted to convey everything I searched and decided on. This is one of the few purchase I have had in a while, that I was happier after I used it.

 

[Builder]

**** it does not matter anymore, I am American through and through, I try to buy only American, but once John Deere was bought out by Hitachi, it was all over, well it will be all over once Toyota, picks off one of the soon to be dead 3, we will just have to drop a bomb and start over I guess. Off to mow, sorry for the long post guys, just wanted to convey everything I searched and decided on. This is one of the few purchase I have had in a while, that I was happier after I used it.

John Deere was "bought out by hitachi"? That's new news to me. I know they did some joint ventures together, but I never knew Hitachi owned John Deere.

That's funny, because one of the majority stockholders in the Deere lives just a few miles from me.

 

[aesanders]

Deere never got bought out by Hitachi.

 

[Builder]

Deere never got bought out by Hitachi.

I didn't think so. I'm pretty absorbed by my work & kid's activities, so sometimes things get past me, but not something like that.

 

[3RRL]

I have a buddy who lives in Montana and he just bought the exact same model as you, a TYM 451. He loves it. I was floored to hear all the standard features he got. He says it's an excellent tractor and an excellent value.

 

[pholt]

Deere never got bought out by Hitachi.

Well it is a he said she said. I also know a "guy" that is a great friend of my dads that is on the top floor at CAT, and he says, Hitachi has a HUGE piece of Deere, so who knows. 90% of there tractors are made over seas anyway, so they are about as American as the rest. There are lots of people in CAT's pockets too, they also JUST about tanked many times in the last 15 years.

Also I was not kidding my dad is at the Deere plant in Iowa right now, or he was at least Saturday, he knows a few of those fellas also. Deere about went under a few years ago, someone bailed them out. But we will never know. Someone infused a ton of money years back, and from the Edgar records, it is not clear who'm bought up the fluff.

It's a mystery!!!. Anything under a 100 h.p is foreign to the bone, so **** nothing is made in the US anymore, Honesty do we make anything anymore? I bet there is not one American Flag made in the US.
It is sad. I am going to learn Arabic so I can fit in.

 

[pholt]

I have a buddy who lives in Montana and he just bought the exact same model as you, a TYM 451. He loves it. I was floored to hear all the standard features he got. He says it's an excellent tractor and an excellent value.

Well I just got back from 5 hours of HARD mowing, I found the FLAW. I started out with a full tank the other day, mowed 5 hours plus 3 the other day, she was empty, I was SCARED, 17 Gallons in 8 hours, OH NO. Well I filled it up, it used 6 gallons, the fuel gauge is screwed I guess, empty with 11 gallons left. That is one **** of a reserve.

It performed wonderfully, put the Gyro on it, it lifted it fine, it was a load though in thick stuff, put the finish mower back on and got it all done, I am very happy so far, and 6 gallons in 8 hours is not bad, and the GRASS around here is INSANE with the 780" of rain we have had.

I wish the seat swiveled. Oh and the rear lift does not go down far enough, I am going to put a turnbuckle on both sides so I can lower it some more.
Off to the shower.

 

[Builder]

Well it is a he said she said. I also know a "guy" that is a great friend of my dads that is on the top floor at CAT, and he says, Hitachi has a HUGE piece of Deere, so who knows. 90% of there tractors are made over seas anyway, so they are about as American as the rest. There are lots of people in CAT's pockets too, they also JUST about tanked many times in the last 15 years.

Also I was not kidding my dad is at the Deere plant in Iowa right now, or he was at least Saturday, he knows a few of those fellas also. Deere about went under a few years ago, someone bailed them out. But we will never know. Someone infused a ton of money years back, and from the Edgar records, it is not clear who'm bought up the fluff.

It's a mystery!!!. Anything under a 100 h.p is foreign to the bone, so **** nothing is made in the US anymore, Honesty do we make anything anymore? I bet there is not one American Flag made in the US.
It is sad. I am going to learn Arabic so I can fit in.

All I could find was that Deere agreed to do some joint ventures with Hitachi. I'd bet that Deere is still an American company.

My Case 580 Super M is under 100HP (95) and is American made. Even the smaller straight 580 M version (82HP) is American made. It has some foreign parts, but the engine is a Consolidated (Cummins) 4BT diesel. The heavy steel has "made in USA" stamped all over it. Has made in Racine, Wis. on it. JCB just opened one of the biggest most automated tractor plants in the world in Georgia (or one of the southern states) to build JCB backhoes here and they're an English company. NH backhoes were made in Italy for many years. I just read they opened a huge plant in the midwest and have started to build them here.

Lots of CUTs have American Perkins diesel engines in them.

I agree most of the small AG stuff has a ton of foreign parts in them, but with some American parts and assembly.

 

[Grizz]

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