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Post by Jon B on Jul 26, 2002 1:30:32 GMT 1
If you have Ford New Holland Genesis tractors in the United Kingdom now (which is 100% likely), and they are popular enough, I can guarentee that you will be able to get the Buhler version. The Genesis is too good of a tractor not to have in a sizeable marketplace like the United Kingdom.
By the way, am I the only one who thinks that the Buhler version, with the red and almond white, almost looks better then the blue New Holland version. I'm surprised how good it looks despite the color change.
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Post by pudding on Jul 27, 2002 18:12:12 GMT 1
Just one more thing, people at forums usually claim the Quadtrack design is the best rubber track system for big tractors...  yeap, couldn't agree more, our quadtrac is the best field tractor i have driven so far.........i like it over our JD 9400......mind you i think i am hooked on the stieger craze!.......our 9170 and the 9180 we borrowed are both great machines too.......and i haven't run our 8630 JD yet, at the moment it is siting in the shop with no backend bearings has buhler made any inroads into establishing a dealer net work yet?.......i thought that would be a priority over tinkering with an old prototype laters pudding |
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Post by kevanos on Jul 28, 2002 0:02:03 GMT 1
Their website says they have over 100 dealers, and will soon have about 250. It doesn't mention if these are all US & Canada, or if they are working overseas.
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Post by Red_Painter on Jul 28, 2002 17:52:09 GMT 1
The last time I could read their dealer list they had dealers in the prairie provinces and plains and some of the traditional big four wheel drive corn belt areas where Versatile was established for years like Minnesota and Illinois. Seems to me I read that they don't plan on having as many dealers as in the old days. I guess they want a smaller number of key dealers to cover larger areas than in former times in some places due to cost. Most dealers were New Holland dealers but a few were old Versatile dealers that lost franchises after New Holland took over. They were still working on dealer organization in areas like eastern corn belt and northwest U S. They didn't mention Australia or Europe, but at that time they had less than 100 dealers and had more to go. I would expect them to sell tractors over seas and maybe South America.
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Post by pudding on Jul 28, 2002 19:22:45 GMT 1
i didn't know they had that many dealers
there market presence has been some what quite......but that is only what i seen.........there is no local dealer here that i know of, except the ford dealers ........versitile has a big presence here......the neighbour has a 9882 and a 976, and 946?......we had two or three 1156 on this farm.......one burnt out.....there is a pic floating round the net of it
i would hope buhler furnishes a market with there existing products before the concentrate on new products....but then again a new product promotion will bring buhler to the market fast, especially a unique yet common machine such as a ag crawler........
laters
pudding...
ps wonder if buhler will plan on attacting the 'bi-di' market in the future ..........maybe a reverse drive 8670?....like a moffett.....that would be cool
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Post by Red_Painter on Jul 28, 2002 21:21:27 GMT 1
If I remember right on their dealer list there were few Buhler dealers down south of the Ohio River and east of Texas or Indiana at that time though that probably has changed as the dealer organization developes. There were two dealers in Arkansas and one in Louisiana Rice country at that time if I remember right. I wouldn't expect to see too many four wheel drives in or close to cotton country unless practices have changed since planters seemed to use large Deere or CIH two wheel drive or front assists for their main tractors not too many years back. In the areas where Versatile was strong in the early days (late 60's and 70's) there are more dealers (plains and some corn belt states where big 4x4 tractors have been used since the 60's.)
I know that in the early 80's Versatile claimed they were going to push their tractor harder in more periferal states where they had less representation. Probably FNH bought more Versatiles into more southerly areas and traditional 2 wheel drive markets than Versatile itself as farm and tractor size have increased considerably in many areas since the early 80's after Ford New Holland bought Versatile. Buhler said once that some states may have only 2 or 3 dealers. They are planning on about 250 dealers though I'm not sure what countries that includes.
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Post by pudding on Jul 30, 2002 2:27:45 GMT 1
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