What a great ad and its true NOTHING RUNS LIKE A DEERE!

The guy at the end whose wife is looking at the garden tractor while he's checking out the undercarriage of the articulated 12 ton monster, that guy is me.

~:D

Looks like a German ad with a voice-over (the houses are too close together for the US - and the German on the dealership wall).

Best John Deere commercial would be a video of that dozer that flattened Rachel Corrie.

It wouldn't be a John Deere commercial, atric.
Caterpillar is what you want for the tough jobs...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDF_Caterpillar_D9

I was going to comment that is was a cute commercial, but jeez guys (atric and DaninVan) - I'm always nervous to send over my leftist friends to this site for education and edification with comments like that.

Because they'll just look at me and say "scratch a rightist and you'll find . . . . "

Oh no; not the tired old Deere vs Caterpillar debate that dominates rural council meetings.

Farmall A, all the way!

Rachel Corrie deliberately placed herself in harms way in an effort to advance the agenda of a terrorist organization. She deserves no sympathy or respect, dead or alive.

That said, I'll ask commentors to stay on topic, please. She isn't.

Oh no; not the old Rachel Corrie debate.

The John Deere place near me also has tons of very cool toys for kids. Metal toys of tractors etc. You just don't see that sort of thing anymore.

Although my favourite tractor is still a Harley Davidson.

Personally, I'm partial to the Cockshutt 40.

But what is Hugo buying?

bah! you guys and your flashy air conditioned, sound-proof, comfy chairs.. nothing like a McCormick 15-30. Real tractors are made of cast iron and run on steel wheels!

...and real cars take leaded full and get 40 rods to the hogshead.

You can be sure that a luddite is not the best person to ask for technology info eh Chris in MB?

Also,

Kate... great find.

"Real tractors are made of cast iron and run on steel wheels!"

Humbug. They run on _STEAM_ and burning chaff.

I'm a Binford man myself . . . tools, vehicles everything.

Tim turned me on to them

Caterpillar- My bad.
Did the job though.

I hadn't realized that a lot of these machines have GPS autosteering mechanisms in them now - my cousins were telling me about it - quite a change in one generation. This particular city mouse really has not a clue about the day to days of farming.

Oh no, not Rachel!
FRIENDS will never be the same........

meanwhile, George (CantStandYa) hooks up with Jenny Craig.

All I could afford was a tractor mailbox painted green/yellow (tryin to stay on thread)

If you want to see more and the newest John Deere equipment, along with all the Cats, and others. Come to the, 2010 World AG Expo, Tulare, California, Feb 9--11. 0900-1700 Tu, Wed, 0900-1600 Thu. You even get to ride on some of this equipment. Good times to be had by all.

Good ad! Too bad though that Deere puts such lousy motors in their smaller tractors.

It doesn't remind me at all of Vitruvius's posting of square dancing tractors. ;) that was a gem too.

I like that they're selling lawnmowers by comparing with their more serious machines, in the same way as I like that Saab (autos/RIP) compared their wares to their more serious offerings too, although for many years now it's a separate company. The three Saab 9000's I owned were the best cars I ever owned.. well perhaps that 65 Olds f-85 holds some pretty good memories as well... except that the back window was concave and not a real treat to scrape back when we had real winters in Regina.
oh wait, Sask. is having a real winter now... uff.

and ditto with The Phantom @ 4.11. I love that wives pull guys to where they need to be.

My uncle had a Cockshutt 40. What a great tractor, indestructible.

Yeah but your Cockshutt 40 couldn't hold a candle to Grampa's Oliver 99 or even his old Minnie U!

My favourite colour...John Deere green.
I musta drove around the world several times already driving a Deere tractor.
Some trivia...The leeping deer logo on the front hood jumping "up" means the machine was made in the new millenium...jumping "down" pre-dates the year 2000.

Ad must be about 1989-90. My 285 lawn tractor was new back then!
The guy could have bought some John Deere yellow paint to remodel his Massey rototiller!

Nothing runs like a 9030.

Best Boat Commercial Ever.
http://www.toughboats.com/video.cfm?fullscreen=1&filename=Toughboats_BubbaCRevLegal

You guys are making me cry. I mourned for six months when I retired and sold my JD 4840, IHC 1086 and 7720 Hydro and now you brought back memories.

But I cheered up when I remembered that my 2305 is resting and waiting in the shop for spring to arrive. Mind, probably will have to use the snow blower at some point.

Young looking Nubian Women beside a digger with the word Layout Hummm!!!!

GW Bush deliberately used the panic following the biggest terrorist attack in US history to launch an unconnected neo-con war in which 1000s of Americans died, playing right into the hands of Al Queda, and so deserves no sympathy or respect, dead or alive.

Fixed it for ya.

Marc, sometimes they pull, sometimes they hit. :)

Anyway, when I was a kid most of the farms around here had their own combine. They looked -big-. County fair time the local dealers would have two or three lined up and us kids would climb up and "drive" them. Vroom vroom.

These days it looks to me like there's maybe five or six combines in all of Haldimand county. The one they used near my place was so big the cutter head was wider than the road, they towed it behind the machine on a trailer.

But having lived in Minnesota, I know what a BIG combine looks like. The really hughnormous ones (yes, hughnormous IS TOO a word) have tracks on the front instead of tires. Keeps the weight distribution down to something reasonable, they tell me.

I'm a wretched outcast though, all I have is a Ransoms mower with an 8' cut. On the good side, its green. And diesel.

Over the years i have operated pretty much every brand of tractors - from the smallest(lamborghini, ferrari, Yanmar to the hugest farm tractors - JD, Cat, Versatile, Case and from natural gas to Coal (i.e. Steam) to diesel from turn of the century to my brother in laws brand spanky-new mid-size JD loader- from cheap Belarus to mid-priced Kubota to super-lux fendts, steyrs and Mercs - well over a hundred i suspect.

Anecdotally they all have their pros and cons and JD is no different, many were fabulous - even memorable in their toughness the "R" and the 8260 come to mind to ridiculously bad - there is a 70's era rototiller that may be the machine i hate the most of any i have dealt with.

The key difference and I think the reason why John Deere has grown to dominate the ag tractor market and be amoung the top three in pretty-much all other sectors is that unlike ALL of their competitors they stuck to just one brand - they did not buy up any other makers and then try and consolidate them into a JD group (in the very early days when JD was itself just forming that wasn't the case, but that was almost a century ago). this purity of corporate culture has helped them stand the test of time whilst others have not even during the very leanest of times.

another firm that has done likewise you may also be familiar with:

Toyota

Yeah Phantom but I guarantee you'll see one of them around Baker Road near La Salette come harvest time. Or maybe Windham Centre.

Hicks!

Phantom:

This is the mower of your dreams:

http://www.toro.com/intl/ca_en/grounds/mower/sports/gm3505/3505.html

Hydrostatic drives, 35 hp diesel kubota, rotary highspeed cutters that are superlow maintenance with a cut 95% as nice as a reel (i've seen them used as golfcourse fairway mowers)and zero-radius manuverability means almost zero whipper-snipping.

If you live on an acreage they are the cats-meow - they even have cupholders. shop around and you can get a very good used for about 9 to ten grand, maybe even less.

Oh and they mulch too.

Jon Deere

best green cheyekneez tractors built:-))))

their small stuff is junk, their farm size, pretty good, just not as good as they used to be

http://www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/letters/Bombardier+CSeries+rumours+flying+high/2414057/story.html

Bombardier CSeries rumours flying high

We need Canadian company such as Bombardier to built better train air craft air lines and ship for passenger and business or under water ship to go fast from one location to others and creat more job too.

MONTREAL – The actual nuts-and-bolts business of building aircraft may be in a slump these days, but the rumour mill is compensating for the lack of economic activity.
One rumour is the speculation yesterday by a Wall St. analyst that Bombardier Inc. is quietly, even stealthily, working on a 150-seat version of its planned CSeries family of airliners.
)))))

http://rjjago.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/picture-of-the-day-5/comment-page-1/#comment-12117

Hey qwerty1 and Joe,

While searching for some CD's for my Dad after he bought his new car, I bought him a disc by 'The Ukrainian Oldtimers', featuring the tune, 'The Cockshutt Polka' amoung others!

Oh and by the way, it ain't a real tractor unless it's a John Deere Model D! We had a 1953 JD model 40 (first JD with a foot clutch) on the farm as well as the '57 Chevy of all tractors, the John Deere 4020! Ah, good times! Dad currently owns an old 1928 Model D with a ceased engine. It's got a couple of gallons of kerosene poured into it and it may take a couple of years, but eventually you can un-cease them and get them running again. It's got steel wheels too!

Unlike the Farmalls, Cockshutts, Masseys, IH's, Minneapolis-Moiles and a plethora of others, you can still get (some) parts for these old two cylinder John Deeres! Forget classic cars, classic tractor restorations is where it's at!

I had the opportunity to tour several of John Deere's factories and their corporate headquarters in Des Moines and Waterloo, Iowa and Moiline, Illinois and it was an incredible experience. Recently a cable channel ran different programs showcasing different manufacturer's factories. There was BMW, Caterpillar, Chevrolet and the Johne Deere Harverster Works in Moline where they build the combines. I saw this very JD operation that was on the show in person back in 1986 and the tv didn't do it justice. Over 100 acres under roof and amazing technology. They were using lasers to cut sheet metal even back then.

Oh and Gord, I'd argue that why John Deere was so successful is because they pumped billions into research and development and marketed their products on their quality,, not a low price point which probably let to the demise of their competitors. Even priced higher, they still maintained market dominance. John Deere formed in 1837.

And yes, I used to work for JD! (Summer jobs in the parts department!)

A few years back, before he passed away, I asked my Dad what the greatest thing invented in his farming lifetime was. His answer was the farm tractor. It had luxury of lights on it and you didn't have to worry any more about the darkness falling and being caught out in the pitch black.

Eskimo I helped my uncle unseize an Oliver 99. It had been sitting for about ten years. We fille the radiator, checked the oil, poured in five gallons of gas in the tank and hooked up a logging chain to another tractor. We dragged the old girl almost 1/4 mile engaging and disengaging the clutch with the transmission in high gear. After the 1/4 mile not only did the engine loosen up it fired up and ran smoothly. We used the old beast the rest of the afternoon.

That commercial really dated itself when it quoted the price of a JD combine at $100,000. How about 5 times that price now!

We too had a Cockshutt 40 on our farm - no cab. Did copious acres of summerfallow on that thing. I'd go to bed at night with the whine in my head that 3rd gear gave you all day long.

Every two years had to grind the valves on that baby.

I want the 730 my Dad had, with the little V-4 gasoline pup engine starter, standard wheels and full fenders - and the chance to use it without all the internal moping I did as a teenager because I thought my time could have been better spent elsewhere.

On a related note, I once helped a friend of my father un-seize his International Farmall by rocking it back and forth (in gear), alternating with beating on the stuck piston with a block of wood and a sledge hammer. The old girl ran like a charm when she went back together.

Nothing putt-putts like a Deere.

However, I was more of a red tractor kind of guy.

On a similar string, now that the Global Warming issue has been put to rest for a few minutes, in BC they are calling for restaurants to be made to list calories, fat and sodium counts on all menus, and that all pesticides, herbicides etc. used for "decorative" purposes, in yards etc. be banned. The Ministry responsible would like to put it to the people for their take, but the Cancer agency doesn't think our input necessary. Not saying it isn't worth looking into, just don't like the nanny like threats being made. Trust us, it's for your own good!

Yeah the Cockshutt 40....Buda 6 gas motor....yeah 3rd gear did whine a lot....it blew up, down and sideways in '62....
The Ag-Museum at Milton On. had a complete collection of all the Cockshutts (built in Brantford). Funny the 40 didn't seem as big as it used to....or the 560 for that matter.
I put ARPS half-tracks on an M.....a conversation piece....still have the tracks....
I kept another souvenier....for blowing snow and setch...a 1974 MUIR-HILL 121.....
Yeah.......what the hell is a MUIR-HILL.
7 tons ballasted, 18.4 X 30....all way round....4X4 non-articulated....
no problemo if ya back inta the ditch blowing the gateway...good recovery vehicle too.
Buddy has a GPS auto-steer.....and a mortgage....

larben @ 9:43 They just don't quit, do they.

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do with the approval of their own conscience.”
C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock (Eerdmans)

By the way, John Deere paid dividends during the 1930s and even had a stock split or two.

Deere me, clearly I am not a man!

Delightful!

Last summer at my boyfriend's farm we decided to transplant a day lilly bed. It was a large bunch and I had the wheel barrow out and was walking across the lawn with a shovel. He told me to hold on a minute because he had something that would work better than the shovel I had.

A few minutes later he drove up with a backhoe!!

The pictures I have are priceless.

Kas

Regular poster boy

I really can't relate to that..."leftist friends"....??????

Gord Tulk, that's a very nice little 3 head mower.

Mine has 5 heads plus a cab. It ain't a Deere, but it still runs. :)

Example of the type: www.adoos.ca/post/2948572/ransomes_ar250_turbo_mower

Or here's a utube of some really goofy looking guy driving one with some kind of bizarre Bimini top looking thing on it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpRhoykwaRA

Phantom: very cool there is a five head version of the toro too. I have always had great luck with TORO stuff (including irrigation equipment) and some ransomes as well. Toro's commercial self-propelled walk behind mower is the best there is... 1600 new I got a very lightly used one for 140.

@ Kate, "LAYOUT" is there because this is the basic advertisement produced by the company. It will be modified for other areas by changing the storefront at the end from German to English or vica versa. At least that's what what they called it in my father's publishing business, those years ago....

I did over 10 hours on an 8440 and 4240 JD Dad's old AR lasted 35 years Best in the west.

There's nothing like a good tractor thread to separate real Saskatchewan blogs from the wannabes....

Ya know what they say about a bad tractor...that it is just like a bad woman...ya gotta get it out of the area to get rid of it.

What about the comment that you can get a push mower for under $2000. Wow what a deal for green paint. A good Craftsman will run you $750. Had one for 10 years, never a problem.

I listed your ad along with 9 others here: 10 Clever Commercials

Where else are you going to see guys bragging their five cutter diesel lawnmowers?