Last year in the late summer I went to an auction in Northern Missouri. It was a retirement sale. There where several CIH combines on the sale. I went looking at other things they had listed. Anyway the BIG combine they had did not sell worth a darn. It was a CIH 9420 on tracks with 4wd and only 800 separator hours. They sold a CIH 8420 right before it and it almost out sold the bigger machine. I bought the CIH 9240 just because it was a good deal. I figured on holding it until fall or even after harvest last year and then resell it. Well when we got it home my sons got to looking it over and decided to find a corn head for it and try it out. Long story short we ended up shelling the majority of our corn last year with it. That left the two JD 9760s to run soybeans. That turned out to really help us get done in a timely manner with the wet fall last year.
Last winter we found a Drago 16x30 folding corn head for the CIH 9420. We plant 16 row and had ran a 12 row last fall. So with finding the 16 row header we where set for running corn for this year.
About 6-8 weeks ago the local CIH dealership owner stopped by to talk to me. He knew we had liked the CIH machine. He told us he would be interested in doing some combine trading with us. He said he had some customers interested in our JD 9760s. He had a list of options of machines to trade on. Well w really did not get too excited about doing anything then. There is not much difference in the CIH and JD combines. They both do a good job and are nice too run. So we thought about it but really did not plan act on it much.
About one month ago the local JD dealership hired a new service manager. He is all gung ho JD. Really drank the coolaid. He did/does not like the fact my sons do a fair amount of repair work. So he started running his mouth and starting/spreading rumors. One of which was we are in tough financial shape and can not even get a Farm plan account so we have to pay for our parts when we get them. I posted a year or more ago about how the local store dropped all their internal accounts. So you have to use Farm Plan or Credit/debt cards if you want parts left out and such. We just use a debt card for the few parts we buy off that store anymore. A very good friend of mine told me about the rumors that the service manager was spreading. We went to the store manager about it. He was useless. Just told me it was all just hear say and that none of his employee would ever do anything like that. We closed all of our account with that dealership chain right then. I will gladly drive the 30 miles to another dealership group for parts.
I was so mad when I got home that I was ready to explode. My sons where hot too. Well this got us to talking about how we would proceed without dealing with the local JD dealership.
Here is what we are doing. The two JD 9760s and 8 row cornheads are getting traded in on a lease return CIH 9420 with only 700 separator hours. The CIH dealership will switch over our two Macdon 45 foot flex draper heads over to work on the CIH 9240s. We signed all the final paperwork this morning. We are paying some boot but not that much.
So I guess that for now JD is out of our harvest picture. Well I am a little wrong about that. I will still run my steep ground with my JD 6620 titian II Sidehill combine but that is under 250 acres.
This change may not be the last of JD going down the road with me/us. Pretty tired of treatment that JD and these MEGA dealerships are doing to us farmers.
Last winter we found a Drago 16x30 folding corn head for the CIH 9420. We plant 16 row and had ran a 12 row last fall. So with finding the 16 row header we where set for running corn for this year.
About 6-8 weeks ago the local CIH dealership owner stopped by to talk to me. He knew we had liked the CIH machine. He told us he would be interested in doing some combine trading with us. He said he had some customers interested in our JD 9760s. He had a list of options of machines to trade on. Well w really did not get too excited about doing anything then. There is not much difference in the CIH and JD combines. They both do a good job and are nice too run. So we thought about it but really did not plan act on it much.
About one month ago the local JD dealership hired a new service manager. He is all gung ho JD. Really drank the coolaid. He did/does not like the fact my sons do a fair amount of repair work. So he started running his mouth and starting/spreading rumors. One of which was we are in tough financial shape and can not even get a Farm plan account so we have to pay for our parts when we get them. I posted a year or more ago about how the local store dropped all their internal accounts. So you have to use Farm Plan or Credit/debt cards if you want parts left out and such. We just use a debt card for the few parts we buy off that store anymore. A very good friend of mine told me about the rumors that the service manager was spreading. We went to the store manager about it. He was useless. Just told me it was all just hear say and that none of his employee would ever do anything like that. We closed all of our account with that dealership chain right then. I will gladly drive the 30 miles to another dealership group for parts.
I was so mad when I got home that I was ready to explode. My sons where hot too. Well this got us to talking about how we would proceed without dealing with the local JD dealership.
Here is what we are doing. The two JD 9760s and 8 row cornheads are getting traded in on a lease return CIH 9420 with only 700 separator hours. The CIH dealership will switch over our two Macdon 45 foot flex draper heads over to work on the CIH 9240s. We signed all the final paperwork this morning. We are paying some boot but not that much.
So I guess that for now JD is out of our harvest picture. Well I am a little wrong about that. I will still run my steep ground with my JD 6620 titian II Sidehill combine but that is under 250 acres.
This change may not be the last of JD going down the road with me/us. Pretty tired of treatment that JD and these MEGA dealerships are doing to us farmers.