On Saturday, March 24, 2012 04:04:37 PM Jon Elson did opine: > Dave wrote: > > Obviously you are not a John Deere lover. I have been at farm > > auctions and one 4 bottom plow by Allis Chalmers will go for $200, > > the next plow is a 4 bottom John Deere of similar specs - it sells > > for $800. Seriously. Some John Deere fans are more like John Deere > > fanatics. > > Ummm, where do you get Allis Chalmers parts? > > Jon > Somebody still has a web page Jon, see:
<http://www.allischalmers.com/sources/index.aspx> I can recall they were selling a few large car engines back in the 70's but it didn't take long for lots of truckers to get tired of the breakage & swap to something else. The 650HP was nice, till it munched a pair of rear ends, or busted its crankshaft from poor vibration dampers. Both of which were expensive enough it only happened once per trucker. Usually in the first 7500 miles. Lots of lawsuits according to what I heard while keeping lots of their CB's on the air when I was working part time for Vi Bernstraugh at Norfolk 2-way Radio in the 70's. I worked on the radio in a KWobbler that had that engine & it shook that tractors cab into an old china bowl in 25k miles. That was what was wrong with the radio too, the pcb had broken from the vibration. He had started out with a Johnson whiteface, but it kept shaking the tubes out of their sockets. I didn't tell the Owner-operator, but the only place I would have driven it would have been to the salvage yard to weigh it & get a check. You don't say such things to somebody who's $125,000 in debt to buy it. But I think he knew it. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. -- Richard Bach, "Illusions" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
