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| You will find the combines to have similar superior engineering, design, and durability compared to CNH/JD. There is little if anything not to love about the shear performance of these machines, it is what sets them apart in a league of their own if performance is important to you. Plenty of people over-hype the resale card (see much of the jibber-jabber below) and want to only cherry-pick that criteria and confuse it for machine total cost of ownership. While resale is one factor, it is not the only one, nor is it typically the most significant. But every 'expert' likes to focus on it, so fine. Plenty of cheap red and green combines get auctioned every day in the current market. Anyone really going to brag that up, anyone.... anyone??? Listen, total cost of ownership takes projected/estimated resale into account, but also factors machine performance in terms of repairs, scheduled rebuild costs, fuel consumption, and, most importantly, crop savings generated year after year. These combined far outweigh the differences in machine values (which can vary with respect to region, marketing outlet, etc.) but nobody likes to talk about it - rather every old discussion like this gets pulled back into resale and glorified 'coffee shop talk' rather than focusing on the truly important attributes of the machine cost of ownership... so go ahead and we can keep beating the dead horse here and those guys will continue to trip over dollars to pick up dimes. The truly significant numbers come from the performance and durability of the machine, this is where they shine and where the Lexion guys 'get it'.
Are they perfect - no way. But they are a whole (*^% of a lot closer than anything else! | |
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Good, Bad, Ugly of CAT Lexion combines???
