jacspath
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My experience in 'comparing colors' was very instructive. My bro and I were on the verge of taking over the farm [owned by my dad but farmed by his bro, our uncle who was slowly retiring]. We needed a new 30-40 hp machine and my dad somehow talked local dealers to 'lend' us a JD and a Ford for what turned out to be a 4 month [most of the summer], head to head by us bros [we already had an older MF and very old Oliver 77 which was on its last legs]. Both my bro and I were clearly biased toward the JD so every time the dealer showed up to try to close the deal we put in our bids for that one but dad always pointed out several points we were not taking into consideration and the bro and I started waffling because we could see dads points. In the end we went with the Ford and were never sorry. The Ford was slightly cheaper but the the real issues were that it was also just slightly better at almost everything where we could compare them directly head to head [plowing using the same plow for example] and the dealership was much better which was a great help to us greenhorns. AND the damn thing is still working [on a cousins farm] 45 years later.
If you can get the dealers to do that kind of head to head it is a lot of trouble until you make the call but it can't be beat to get a machine you will love.
If you can get the dealers to do that kind of head to head it is a lot of trouble until you make the call but it can't be beat to get a machine you will love.