My grandfather was on the Research and design research and design team for IH for the 1440 model. Always showed him this video. He passed away Monday and now I watch this video brings a tear to me now.
I remember when these came out and John Deere said they would never work and never sell ( LOL) and that John Deere would never build a rotary combine. (LOL). We were running a IH 915 at the time.
Yeah makes ya wonder why did IH not withstand the crisis in the 80’s? Was it because they forced farm equipment dealers to stock and sell their goofy departure into the appliance business? Was it their construction equipment line that wasn’t ever a real player in the construction business? Was it the gas turbine business that obviously they knew nothing about? They had well over 50% of the market share on ag tractors and Ag equipment when times were good. Was it the lack of r&d that gave the company a huge black eye in the public’s opinion with the 60 series debacle? Was it a lack of customer faith? Was it the negative publicity of getting caught red handed so to speak at literally copying John Deere’s patent on adjustable row spacing Deere had on its new corn head in 1970 only to have a federal judge find IH was guilty of copying the Deere design piece by piece thus awarding Deere $28 million dollars in damages for (as the court out it) “an exceptional case of willful infringement “. These are the facts. It isn’t a bunch of so and so said this and blah blah blah. Deere dominated the combine market share with the simple and dependable 6600 model combine. IH never came close to the sales Deere had with that machine. You can be first to the public with whatever idea is the next best thing but if you’re in a hurry and don’t take the time to test, then retest and rethink and design changes any little possible window where error might happen... well you get plant closures, butt hurt customers, a bruised ego, ya have to swallow your pride and share what little ya have left with some other guys who ya don’t really like to begin with and eventually all your money is going overseas to company’s so strange and different then speak languages you don’t understand... things get real ugly real quick.
interman 77 Seems to me Deere set the fuel economy record then broke its own record again and again and again with these “primitive backwards” as you put it Two-Cylinder design... guess I can say this ... Never once heard of a 21 million dollar factory recall on any Deere tractors due to incompetence and poor design. Let’s look at the facts. Rush those 60 series out the door as fast as possible! They obviously didn’t even test the piles of crap if bull gears were failing after 50 hours of heavy use. Although it took Deere almost 7 years of designing testing and research before they rolled out the New Generation of Power, they did it right! Recalls= bad. Closed center hydraulics= supremely good!!!
I kinda laught remembering back in the day when I worked at a caseih dealer. jd bad mouthed the rotor combine,and the cyclo air planter. guess it wasn't to bad.
Yet John Deere was first to develop it!! They had the patent for it in 1962, IH had their patents in 1966. talk.newagtalk.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=208224&DisplayType=flat
Yet not original to IH, John Deere developed this technology and never used it. I do not remember how IH obtained the design from JD. The video is very misleading about IH "break through technology" !! talk.newagtalk.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=208224&DisplayType=flat
Sorry to say but when Deere came out with the 20 series combines that had better controls and features plus header options that's when I seen which combine was best I bought a 7720 and it was the best combine I ever owned
Alan They eventually copied IHC after they realized how good the rotary was ,all Jd do is copy everybody else when they know it's a safe bet ,even the 7700 ,8800 series were copied off MASSEY.
@@interman7715 They bought a IHC Axial Flow test combine, before they released them. IHC didn't have the money to take deere to court, so when the patents expired, what do you know, deere comes out with a rotary.
