Poseyville: New Holland/AGCO Dealer

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The dealer on the south side of Poseyville has about every brand except John Deere and CaseIH.

I noticed that equipment is shipped in pieces and that the dealer has to do final assembly. The dealer I talked to mentioned that they have an overhead crane in their shop to help with the assembly. Note the vertical gray bars holding the folding wings on top of the base units. The unit on the right has just one wing and folds in half. The wider unit on the left has a wing on each side that folds up.

The truck also carries a bunch of miscellaneous parts.

I was reminded that AGCO acquired the Massey-Ferguson brand and New Holland acquired the Ford and Versatile brands.

The Ford is in for repairs. It is not only used to mow grass, the PTO (Power Take Off) makes it useful as a portable engine for chores such as powering a grain elevator. To the right is an example of an older, smaller tractor being used as a portable engine. Note that the building with a square copula on top is a corn crib.

This dealer is mainly an implement dealer. It had only one new tractor on the lot. Fortunately the side with the diesel exhaust treatment equipment was the sunny side.

The dealer pointed out to me that the planter in their shop planted two rows close together so that they can both can be harvested by a regular corn head. That explains why there were two air-seed-delivery hoses per position in the planter.










He handed me a brochure for the Great Plains Yield-Pro Planters. The brochure indicates that the planter is 60-feet wide.

If you wanted hay bailing equipment, this was the dealer you went to. They had a square bailer, two small round bailers and a large round bailer. And they had three 3-point hitch mounted mowers.









The Great Plains seed drill had a new design for road transport -- the wings folded forward. I include a close-up of one of the fold joints.









They had multiple brands of tillage equipment. I'll use the detailed pictures in other posts. I'll include just an overview of the equipment here. The round shop building helps oriented the location of the pictures.

I asked the dealer about ARGO when I meant to say AGCO. It turns out ARGO is a company, and he mentioned that they had one of their amphibious ATVs in the shop. I asked if he would escort me into the shop so that I could take a picture. He did. Then I realized my mistake concerning AGCO. He pointed out that they had a Gleaner combine in the shop. I then remembered that Gleaner is the "G" in AGCO.