Farm Equipment - How many remember these days?

In my area back in the late 70's we had a real good Allis dealer and he switched a number of John Deere farmers into Allis equipment. One of our best neighbors (they let Dad house and milk his cattle in their barns when Dad's barn burned in 76') were all John Deere but bought a new 7040 PS. The farmer loved it and it started better than his 4430 and 4630 so it got the winter chores. I remember his son's, who I idolized, hated this Allis because they were raised on John Deere. I would ride with them (I was 7 years old) in the 7040 in the winter sometimes and they would rev it way up and dump the clutch to try to wreck it. When they went belly up in 1980 the tractor was dented up and the radiator and grill was smashed so it sold cheap but another neighbor bought it and fixed the radiator and then carried on the abuse for another 20 years (he would brag on how he would only change the oil every 4 years and how those new Deutz engines couldn't handle that, he was a frugal Irishman). It's still going today but is used for blowing snow by the second owner's son.

Another farmer who Dad shared rented land with switched almost every piece of equipment he had to Allis. He had a big Allis planter and many other tillage pieces and a 185 (Dad rented the 185 to plant with and it was a nice tractor) and a 7030. This was during the 70's too and he went belly up in the early 80's. It was to the point that the farmer had welded the tie rods on the 185 so that it only turned to the right and the 7030 was skidded up on the trailer after the local technical college bought it at his sale. The planter was missing parts and had broken boxes. I'm pretty sure he purposefully wrecked everything he had so the banks wouldn't get all their money from the forced sale. Those days I'll never forget. I was in my teens.

Saw another neighbor get all his machinery getting loaded up onto semi trailers (all Deere and Steiger) while on the bus on our way to school in the morning. That was right next door to Dad's farm.

Another farmer sold out before losing everything but came out good at almost $3000/acre or so he thought. He sold contract for deed but the new owner went bankrupt and then continued to run the land for 3 years without payment and didn't pay the taxes either. Guess who got to pay the back taxes and had no income for three years. It ruined the guy and he ended up bankrupt himself and he is still pumping gas at the local station now in his late 70's.