robertm
Veteran Member
I was searching for some info on line last night when I came across a video by some tractor dealer in Ohio trying to bash the Kubota BX 80-Series, while praising the Green contender. Actually, they were trying to perform a simple demonstration, but let me just say, Mutt and Jeff obviously shouldn't be operating ANY motorized equipment.
What frosts my backside is that the information they put out there is so skewed, it's just WRONG! Plain wrong. Now, any person who knows anything about tractors would see the errors in the two dipsticks demonstration, but it's just crazy that they could actually post something like they did while believing they proved their point.
First, they cycle loaders for raise and lower times, side by side. At 2000rpm, and idle. I've never sat around the manure pile bashing my neighbors tractor because his loader is slower raising or lowering, but who cares. The BX and 1-Family are not commercial units designed for racing productivity. Does speed matter with residential units? Maybe. Then, they do the same test at idle. Really? When is this likely? I can say, if I'm doing delicate work like backfilling petunias or scraping bird dung off my aluminum siding with the FEL, I'd rather have my slow-at-idle BX. Then, most every time, Mutt had his loader already raising or lowering before Jeff had a clue and the signal went from his eyes, to brain, to hand to move the joystick. Yes, I know the 1-Family (sounds like a Chinese dish) has a faster loader, but not a selling point for me.
The selling point is with removal of the loader. Mutt initiates the race by dropping the green stand, and backing away a foot, while Jeff has absolutely NO IDEA how the stand on his borrowed 80-Series works. He fumbles for 20 seconds and can't get the stand to engage because he has no idea that curling the bucket and releasing a lever does the trick. Mutt, all proud his loader is dismounted, gets off to pull up on Jeff's loader stand to accentuate it doesn't work. Absolutely comical. They never get Jeff's loader right, and NEVER show the real difference by Mutt getting off the Chinese Dinner Dish to uncouple and cap all four hydraulic couplers. Then again, Jeff probably would stare at the 80-Series one QD hydraulic disconnect, and never figure it out.
Then, Mutt and Jeff stand back and Mutt says what they feel is "the clear advantage in taking the loader off". Really? They never actually took both loaders off!
I think the growing corn in Ohio is taking all the oxygen. I'd gladly operate the 80-Series next to Mutt on the Happy Family, and show him why he shouldn't be selling equipment with false information.
I know it's a rant, but has anyone else gotten sick of skewed information by sales people? Moreover, salespeople who don't even know the equipment THEY sell?
What frosts my backside is that the information they put out there is so skewed, it's just WRONG! Plain wrong. Now, any person who knows anything about tractors would see the errors in the two dipsticks demonstration, but it's just crazy that they could actually post something like they did while believing they proved their point.
First, they cycle loaders for raise and lower times, side by side. At 2000rpm, and idle. I've never sat around the manure pile bashing my neighbors tractor because his loader is slower raising or lowering, but who cares. The BX and 1-Family are not commercial units designed for racing productivity. Does speed matter with residential units? Maybe. Then, they do the same test at idle. Really? When is this likely? I can say, if I'm doing delicate work like backfilling petunias or scraping bird dung off my aluminum siding with the FEL, I'd rather have my slow-at-idle BX. Then, most every time, Mutt had his loader already raising or lowering before Jeff had a clue and the signal went from his eyes, to brain, to hand to move the joystick. Yes, I know the 1-Family (sounds like a Chinese dish) has a faster loader, but not a selling point for me.
The selling point is with removal of the loader. Mutt initiates the race by dropping the green stand, and backing away a foot, while Jeff has absolutely NO IDEA how the stand on his borrowed 80-Series works. He fumbles for 20 seconds and can't get the stand to engage because he has no idea that curling the bucket and releasing a lever does the trick. Mutt, all proud his loader is dismounted, gets off to pull up on Jeff's loader stand to accentuate it doesn't work. Absolutely comical. They never get Jeff's loader right, and NEVER show the real difference by Mutt getting off the Chinese Dinner Dish to uncouple and cap all four hydraulic couplers. Then again, Jeff probably would stare at the 80-Series one QD hydraulic disconnect, and never figure it out.
Then, Mutt and Jeff stand back and Mutt says what they feel is "the clear advantage in taking the loader off". Really? They never actually took both loaders off!
I think the growing corn in Ohio is taking all the oxygen. I'd gladly operate the 80-Series next to Mutt on the Happy Family, and show him why he shouldn't be selling equipment with false information.
I know it's a rant, but has anyone else gotten sick of skewed information by sales people? Moreover, salespeople who don't even know the equipment THEY sell?
