Memories from nearly 40 years ago...
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Topic: Memories from nearly 40 years ago...
Posted By: tbran
Subject: Memories from nearly 40 years ago...
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2024 at 2:59pm
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.... posted this on facebook - thought I would share. We had a tech, Dennis, who had gone thru a divorce and wanted to 'get away' . I got him a job with AC in Az under Marvin Prible in the mid '80's -another 'proving ground'. He reported all the jobs he was assigned. Any vendor who wanted to change a product like a starter or alternator or pump would have to have it tested. His job was to swap these parts and see what happened. When the plant thought a metal or rubber line would cut cost or improve reliability - it had to be changed. He called, collect, one day and was so excited I had to slow him down. He told about the new tractors that had Komatsu engines. When asked why he was told AC had to cut cost and improve efficiency and buying engines might be the best way out. Gleaner engineers were pushing this hard as well for various reasons. Dennis called, collect again, in early 1985 almost in tears "It's over, he said (he had worked from 1969 to present 1985 on AC tractors and Gleaners) it is over. We are gone. " when I ask him to explain he said that the word had come down to shut everything down. Pack it up - destroy everything - and go home. This was before anything was public about the sale to Deutz. I ask him if he could bring anything back. His boss said absolutely not, but there was a U-HAUL dealer a few miles away and he was going to be gone a couple of days to a meeting. Dennis arrived 'back home' a month later with a severely overloaded truck and trailer. 8095 planetaries, pumps, injectors, clutches, hyd lines and tubes, Agri-tronic 8000 stuff and can't remember what else. We were not surprised when we got the "letter". Just some memories from almost 40 years ago. ------------- When told "it's not the money,it's the principle", remember, it's always the money.. |
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Posted By: exSW
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2024 at 3:34pm
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I was a Junior at UT Martin. Working for Tony Coleman. Was in and out of your dealership a couple of times. Usually when I tore up the brushog. Or was it a Woods? ------------- Learning AC...slowly |
Posted By: Unit3
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2024 at 4:27pm
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Oh what could have been. I am so glad for the Orange Spectator. It keeps the brand alive for all of us. ------------- 2-8070FWA PS/8050PS/7080/7045PS/200/D15-II/2-WD45/WD/3-WC/UC/C |
Posted By: RedHeeler79
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2024 at 6:17pm
| Thanks for sharing. I always like to hear stories from “those who were there”! A-C sure has a great legacy and I’m glad that it has continued on despite the company going under when i was just a kid. |
Posted By: Daehler
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2024 at 7:04pm
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tbran, is any of the stuff still around that was brought back? I would purchase it all to go with the prototypes for when a get a museum created in the future. Ive just picked up more pieces from the tractors. Trying to round up every surviving piece i can before who knows what is done with them. ------------- 8070FWA,7080 BlackBelly, 7045,2 200s,D19,D17,G, WD,45,UC,7 AC mowers and lots more! "IT TAKES 3 JD's TO OUT DO AN ALLIS, 2 TO MATCH IT IN THE FIELD AND 1 FOR PARTS!" |
Posted By: tbran
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2024 at 8:14am
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lost it all in the fire... sorry. We had probably 100 hydraulic lines for 8000's - don't even want to think about it. Even had the pictures he sent back...gone. Think we saved the axle stand and homemade tool to facilitate axle/axle seal changes. They went through a lot with the spinner plows - deep tillage. ------------- When told "it's not the money,it's the principle", remember, it's always the money.. |
Posted By: tbran
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2024 at 8:16am
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exSW - how did you wind up north there.. ? ------------- When told "it's not the money,it's the principle", remember, it's always the money.. |
Posted By: Daehler
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2024 at 8:35am
Dang, i figured so. Was the agri data the updated one? There is a wire one serial 1003 8095 that goes to where bottom 3pt arem hooks. Kinda odd deal ------------- 8070FWA,7080 BlackBelly, 7045,2 200s,D19,D17,G, WD,45,UC,7 AC mowers and lots more! "IT TAKES 3 JD's TO OUT DO AN ALLIS, 2 TO MATCH IT IN THE FIELD AND 1 FOR PARTS!" |
tbran wrote:Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2024 at 4:38pm
| So how was Dealers informed of the Deutz buyout? Just a letter ? This was before email of coarse,, |