Les, if you didn't cut of the first part of his statement, it would be completely obvious. The part you convieniently forgot to paste is vital to the statement. He stated: " an 8000T is a track tractor that, if you buy one, you have to be two things." eddiedry - 2/20/2010 10:28 you have to be extremely, super committed to owning anything that is John Deere. On what do you base that? Deere seems to build equipment that is as reliable as any manufacturers that are out there. As far as I know the Deere machines ride as good as any out there. Is the statement made thinking that Deere is going to be bought by some other company, have their name changed, or drop the Deere green color that is so synonymous with agriculture? Most of the sales reports indicate that by and large the Deere line maintains its value as well as any manufacturers lineup, a lot better than some. Is your statement based on the fact that Deere is the only ag manufacturer in the states with a pure unbroken heritage from inception to current date? Deere does have some problems from time to time, but they've always corrected them for us anyway. I'd tend to think others have design and manufacturing hiccups from time to time as well, maybe they don't. Again, please explain the premise and intent of the above phrase, I'm extremely curious now! Now, to explain the obvious, you have to be extremely committed to owning a track tractor, because the 8000T wasn't that great of a machine, even in comparison to the wheeled models.... and you have to be extrememly committed to owning anything Deere, because even the first generation yellow ones, in spite of their significant shortcomings, were so obviously better machines then the T's in substantial ways, and then the MT's raised the bar considerably from there... up until the Deere models which are just now available, which seem to have (finally) closed the gap up some...there really wasn't much of a logical reason to own a green row crop track save for pure blind brand loyalty once the MT became available. All the crap you posted has nothing to do with track tractors. Just more blah blah blah about how great John Deere is...makes about as much sense as the pumpkin guys getting all worked up because they aren't going to paint Masseys orange anymore.
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