| dieseldan123 |
05-26-2011 12:34 AM |
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Originally Posted by ad356
(Post 74874)
one thing that really annoys me about mtd, they slap the cub cadet name on everything. cheap weedwackers, throw away lawnmowers, gator-like atv things, zero turns. most people dont even know what cub cadet really means. IH had a smaller farm tractor called the "cub". they built a garden tractor for use in the yard using an transaxle out of the cub farm tractor, and cub cadet was born. the cub was the larger tractor and the cadet was the smaller tractor. the name had meaning, now it means nothing
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I completely agree! Case IH has revamped the Farmall and Scout names. The Farmall of today is nothing like the "rugged do everything tractor" of yester year. Farmall letter series and number series still perform lots of work done on farms today, simply because you have to be a tech inorder to work on new "Farmall" tractors, and the price tag. The Scout is now a side beside four wheeler thing. They are nice since i have rode in one, but every time i hear the name scout i think about the 4x4 trucks that IH made. Go anywhere and you were getting home that night as hardly anything can stop a scout and they go hand in hand with the Farmalls.
Im not against Case IH, love them like i do IH, but the sad truth is there will never be a true IH machine ever made again. And the names to these legends will once again be restamped on machines that will not outlive the originals. Not just for Case IH, but John Deere, and every manufaturer out there today will do it and do it again. Just my two cents. |
