MADE IN CHINA on JD

[specialkkl]

Is this company out of its mind. They have a niche market like Harley Davidson and they put a made in CHINA loader on a small subcompact. I almost died when I seen that. People pay extra for the made in USA and green paint. Anywhere but CHINA.

 

[kennyd]

Yup! Sad but true...
I don't think the whole loader is made in China, just the castings are. But, as a JD employee would tell you (no, I'm not one!) We are a "Global Company)

 

[Dougster]

Is this company out of its mind. They have a niche market like Harley Davidson and they put a made in CHINA loader on a small subcompact. I almost died when I seen that. People pay extra for the made in USA and green paint. Anywhere but CHINA.

Yeah, kind of a shocker the first time you see it. Even more of a shocker when you find out they still want the same sky high prices.

Seems at first like it must be a mistake! Then you point it out to the salesman. Next you find out that the salesmen are all trained to pretend it doesn't matter. "How 'bout them Mets!!!"

Whether it does or doesn't... someone somewhere in JD definitely doesn't get it. Please folks... at least hide the "Made in China" stamps and labels where the customers can't see them!!!

Dougster

 

[wallace]

In ten years lets all look back at this while we are sitting on our new "made in China" tractors

 

[RoyJackson]

Is this company out of its mind. They have a niche market like Harley Davidson and they put a made in CHINA loader on a small subcompact. I almost died when I seen that. People pay extra for the made in USA and green paint. Anywhere but CHINA.

Deere has been global for a long time...at least 20 years (or more).
I don't care for it either...but my 790 is a Yanmar built under Deere specs.

Since you're a policeman, you may well be driving a Ford Crown Victoria. Everyone of them is foreign built too...made in Canada (so I have read).

Anyway, you own a Mahindra...just stopping by the Deere forum to stir some stuff?

You know, one of the reasons manufacturers outsource is so they don't have to comply with environmental and other regulation in the United States. Maybe we need a law that would require imported goods be manufactured under the same envonmental and employment regulations or, they couldn't be imported. Think that would help?

 

[Bob_Young]

Now you've done it, specialk. The JD thought police will be along shortly to deal with your faulty perceptions of this so-called 'issue'. Better start packing for the re-education camp.....and find someone to feed the pets.

What is there about "If JD did it, it's OK." that you don't understand?
Bob

----OOPS! I see my warning came too late.

 

[Builder]

I think it's a disgrace.

If JD wants to make equipment in China, GREAT, but sell it to the Chinese, not us. I'd rather have a Japanese-made Kubota than a Chinese-made Deere.

Seems like everything I buy that's made in China breaks a lot sooner than it was supposed to and ends-up in the county landfill.

 

[Dougster]

In ten years lets all look back at this while we are sitting on our new "made in China" tractors

I pray you are wrong. I fear you are right.

Dougster

 

[hemiguy]

Yes, I noticed that on the main casting on the 200CX loader frame on my 2520. Kinda rubs me the wrong way too, but that's reality in today's world. You do, I'm sure, know that these tractors (at least 2520's) are manufactured at Yanmar in Japan. All their CUT engines have always come from there and I think Yanmar even built the JD650/750/850 series tractors starting in the late 70's.

I think you got to get up into a 50+ HP tractor before you have one mostly made here in the USA. Almost all CUT's from any manufaturer are made somewhere overseas. Regardless where they're made the Deere's are still as good as anything else out there.

 

[specialkkl]

What's wrong with stirring. I just wanted to know what other peoples thoughts on this were. I understand they are all made in Japan,etc. And if i didn't get a smoking divorce deal on my Mahindra I'd be making payments on a made in Japan JD. Just don't see how JD can throw that niche out the door, go to CHINA and become a Honda Davidson without some marketing people cringing. For now it's MADE IN TOMBALL TEXAS with a mitsubishi engine.

 

[specialkkl]

As for Wallace, in Ten years there will be nobody to buy those tractors. WALMART don't pay that good.

 

[widmn]

Frankly, I think its embarrassing and a disgrace to our culture, our gubmint, and the US. We have lost our manufacturing and much of our service sectors to China and India.
My 7 year old daughter asked me the other day why everything was Made in China. I couldn't/didn't want to answer her and I fear for her future. I have lost faith in our corrupt gubmint. I can't even use the word goverment anymore. They don't deserve it.

 

[RoyJackson]

What's wrong with stirring. I just wanted to know what other peoples thoughts on this were. I understand they are all made in Japan,etc. And if i didn't get a smoking divorce deal on my Mahindra I'd be making payments on a made in Japan JD. Just don't see how JD can throw that niche out the door, go to CHINA and become a Honda Davidson without some marketing people cringing. For now it's MADE IN TOMBALL TEXAS with a mitsubishi engine.

Just add salt as you're stirring...

You can joke about Honda Davidson. I've heard Harley is going to build a plant in China. They have a facility in Brazil (for the South American market) but those bikes are built in the US, knocked down, shipped and built back up in Brazil. As aggressive as China is, I doubt if they'd allow such limited manufacture.

I do know HD is buying some parts in China. I knew one of the HD Buyers who went there.

So, there goes at least one of the HD plants in the US.

Of course, most "made in China" threads go political sooner or later (in my first post, I wrote a comment that could be construed as "political"). TBN shuts these threads down pretty quickly (thank goodness!).

Anyway...look at all the money it's going to save parents...you don't need to send your kid to college to learn "Would you like fries with that, Sir?"

 

[JDCAN]

Sometimes made in china is the only option, meaning allot of north American companies just out right refuse to make some of the things the Asians are willing to make. In other words North American people just couldn't be bothered to manufacture it so they outsource to others that are willing to make it. Not saying this is the case with John Deere but something to think about.

Careful what you wish for, one day China might get fed up with making cheap consumer goods for us rich north Americans and then what are we going to do? Rely on factories that are not willing to make us the goods we need to buy?

If it makes anyone feel better the front end loader on my JD 2520 is made in Canada at the Welland Ontario Plant.

 

[jeepinator]

In 10 years, China's reputation for making junk might be mostly "old school" thinking.
They don't make junk because it is all they can make. They make junk because we ask them to. With their industrial complex and economy going berzerk, you can bet someone is thinking about their image problem.

 

[jcmseven]

I agree with JDCAN, we cannot seem to make much of anything ourselves anymore. We have graduated--if this is the correct term--from a nation of production to one of design, with production going overseas. I have nothing against the "global economy" but we cannot continue to outsource more and more of our production and still have a strong manufacturing base. I understand why JD outsources some of these components and I know their philosophy is to make the best they can for the least, to maintain good profit margins to keep the American icon going. I though, must admit, was disappointed when I saw my JD 300cx loader with "Made in China" castings for the mounting posts.

John M

 

[mjncad]

I can hardly wait to hear Boeing's excuses when one of Chinese made tail sections on their jets fails and causes a crash resulting in a few hundred deaths.

I am so sick of seeing "Made in China" on stuff because I know it fails quickly, is shoddily made by workers making maybe 6-cents on the dollar compared to an American, Japanese or European worker.

Whenever something fails with the "Made in China" label, I gripe via email to the manufacturer. I know I may as well be spitting into a hurricane; but if we don't gripe in force, the manufacturers won't take notice.

I'd like to see stiff tariffs on Chinese made junk to offset the dumping of goods on the market at or below cost.

 

[shvl73]

For now it's MADE IN TOMBALL TEXAS with a mitsubishi engine.

It more accurately, made in Japan with minor final assembly in Texas. That is a Mitsubishi tractor, not just the engine.

 

[Roadkill95]

Try your GM vehicle, I see the parts boxes and parts made in CHINA. Keep that great GM feeling with genuine GM parts

 

[KrumpsBrother]

The loader on my off-brand Farmtrac is made in the good old USA

KB