Sad Day

[Destroked 450]

Our local NH dealer is closing March 31
They are in the process of clearing out inventory and any parts or manuals they don’t want to transfer to their other stores is being tossed in dumpsters to go to land fill
No one is allowed to pick through or purchase any of it, they are offering 15% discount on any parts they are keeping

I was talking to the parts manager this morning and he was telling me about some new flat top fenders that were tossed in the dumpster and purposely bent so no one would pull them back out
It’s sad they are not offering that unwanted inventory for sell to any one
They have several stores in south central Ky
I’ll be purchasing my parts from a dealer in southern Indiana, about a 40 mile drive but much nicer people to deal with

 

[Bern]

Our local dealer has service bulletins back to 1965. Last I checked they were still there on a bookshelf. It will be a sad day indeed if they ever get tossed.

 

[DoubleO7]

@Destroked 450

Did you find where the dumpsters are going?
If parts are going to a scrapper, maybe they will sell you stuff.

 

[TractorDad3]

Our local NH dealer is closing March 31
They are in the process of clearing out inventory and any parts or manuals they don’t want to transfer to their other stores is being tossed in dumpsters to go to land fill
No one is allowed to pick through or purchase any of it, they are offering 15% discount on any parts they are keeping

I was talking to the parts manager this morning and he was telling me about some new flat top fenders that were tossed in the dumpster and purposely bent so no one would pull them back out
It’s sad they are not offering that unwanted inventory for sell to any one
They have several stores in south central Ky
I’ll be purchasing my parts from a dealer in southern Indiana, about a 40 mile drive but much nicer people to deal with

This is the most ridiculous and maddening thing I’ve read in a while. Especially for those of us that save pennies and spend countless hours hunting up parts needed. Regardless of if they’re easy to find elsewhere, what a complete waste

 

[495man]

Makes no sense to trash stuff. I saw a dealer closeout that just made up pallets of stuff and you bid on it. They didn't have to pay to dispose and you carried it away.

 

[flying belgian]

This is the most ridiculous and maddening thing I’ve read in a while. Especially for those of us that save pennies and spend countless hours hunting up parts needed. Regardless of if they’re easy to find elsewhere, what a complete waste

Makes no sense to me. Who makes that decision? Is it a corporate thing?

 

[mtf]

Is this HDR you are referring to closing?

 

[Destroked 450]

I heard it went to a land fill
The owner passed away and his son is running things, he’s the one there making the decisions on what to keep and what to trash
This is not their home store, they acquired it 10-12 years ago when NH was forcing dealers to expand or sell, they acquired it owner we had then didn’t want to expand so they sold to this dealer. This will be the 3rd or 4th store they’ve close since they had expanded to 9 stores

 

[Destroked 450]

Is this HDR you are referring to closing?

 

[mtf]

I did not know this. Yes Steve died a year or two ago and Junior is not the business man his father was. I often wonder when our long time parts manager retires if they will close our store.(The first location). They have lost so much customer base to green in the last 10 years.

The way they handled the Glasgow Barren County market was such a bad decision in my opinion. There was so much potential there and they could not capitalize.

The H family farm is just two hollars over from one of mine.

 

[John P.]

Our NH Dealer closed this past fall.

 

[SkipperII]

Our local dealer has service bulletins back to 1965. Last I checked they were still there on a bookshelf. It will be a sad day indeed if they ever get tossed.

When PSE got rid of our fleet shops, there were Motors, Chilton, and factory manuals/electrical diagrams for Ford and Chevrolet trucks, back to the early 60s. They sent in a crew from the main fleet shop, and wiped out the entire library.

 

[Destroked 450]

I did not know this. Yes Steve died a year or two ago and Junior is not the business man his father was. I often wonder when our long time parts manager retires if they will close our store.(The first location). They have lost so much customer base to green in the last 10 years.

The way they handled the Glasgow Barren County market was such a bad decision in my opinion. There was so much potential there and they could not capitalize.

The H family farm is just two hollars over from one of mine.

This store has been on the down turn for 10 years or more
My brother was parts manager there and had been parts manager there for different owners of the dealership since the 80’s. I’m not going to get into details but Steve came to the store 8-10 years ago and accused my brother of stealing
Several o-rings, some gaskets and a few short line attachments were missing from a inventory list
At that time the service manager had full access to parts and keep a separate list of parts they removed, I personally seen mechanics walk into the parts room to pull a part a walk back to the shop, for some crazy reason short line attachments like bale spears and loader buckets were run though parts instead of sales, if a salesman tossed in a bale spears and loader to finalize a tractor with loader deal it would show up short in parts of the salesman didn’t mention it to parts sales
Shortly after my brother left the store manager, service manager and top mechanic all went across to street to work for the green dealer
The new store manager they hired wouldn’t got to the bathroom without the home store’s permission
I tried for a year to trade my 2012 BR 7070 baler for a used 2015 450 silage baler they had, all he ever said was he’d have to talk to the home store to get a price, I stopped by one day and the baler was gone
A neighbor went there to purchase a new NH 120 hp tractor, after a few days of the same answer I got he went across the street and purchased a green tractor that day
For about the past 5 years or more their web home page was changed from from New Holland to Kubota with no mention of NH in parts look up or anything else
Our local store have over a dozen orange tractor plus equipment and only 2 blue tractors, a couple mowers, a speed rake and one 450 utility baler, no used tractors any only a few pieces of used equipment
I’m not surprised the store is closing and the location is already sold to become a machine shop
I’m just sad all those parts are being trashed for no good reason, they could have auctioned them off and made money from it instead of paying land fill fees to dispose them them

 

[Jim L WA]

You can't fix stupid.

 

[Sean in PA]

I thought my local New Holland dealer had closed about 5 years ago as the store went empty, but apparently they relocated and didn't do much in the way of letting people know. I hadn't needed any parts at the time, but a couple of years later when I did need some parts I went to the New Holland site to find another dealer close by and when I put in my zip code the old dealership name popped up but with a different address.

 

[ford4610]

Makes no sense to me. Who makes that decision? Is it a corporate thing?

yes. probably a corporate guy making millions a year with huge bonuses!

 

[Recoil]

Makes no sense to me. Who makes that decision? Is it a corporate thing?

Corporations are so hell bent on profits that they won't even give away something they are going to throw away. It's absolutely ridiculous. Years ago when I was a teenager, I worked at a fast food place and they did the same thing with food. If the food sat under the warmers for more than 30 minutes, it was thrown away instead of just given away. Heartbreaking to say the least.

 

[trackrat]

all ouur local nh dealer wants to sell are lawn mowers and construction equipment needed a sickle bushing for a 488 haybine was told no such thing on that machine power star 75 pto is out told that they have nobody in shop to fix it by the way its still under warranty

 

[paul]

Corporations are so hell bent on profits that they won't even give away something they are going to throw away. It's absolutely ridiculous. Years ago when I was a teenager, I worked at a fast food place and they did the same thing with food. If the food sat under the warmers for more than 30 minutes, it was thrown away instead of just given away. Heartbreaking to say the least.

Well it’s worse than that, they are spending money to wreck fenders that are getting thrown away.

Into the 2000’s the small Massey and Ford dealerships that closed around here would have auctions. It was difficult to buy much as they sold a shelf at a time, mostly, but at least the parts were there, the literature was still there for someone, etc.

Paul

 

[Welding man]

Our local dealer has service bulletins back to 1965. Last I checked they were still there on a bookshelf. It will be a sad day indeed if they ever get tossed.

I got lucky. When our local Ford dealer got his franchise pulled because he wouldn't expand, I got all the Ford tools from the N series up through the 10 series., service bulletins, shop manuals, flat rate manuals and a lot of Sperry New Holland manuals. The owner and I were good friends and he really treated me right on the stuff. A lot of it I have never used and probably never will.