No Ford trucks, no Kubota no mahindras

Went to the next town over this week.
Not one new Ford truck on the Ford dealer.
Only 3 tractors on the Kubota dealer.
Only 2 Mahindra tractors on the mahindra lot but now they sell bad boy mowers and I saw small Bad Boy tractors. Never saw a bad boy tractor before.

Kubota dealers here are short on inventory to. We were looking for an RTV for around the farm and there's nothing at the 2 dealers I normally go to. One salesman said if we ordered an RTV today we would have it sometime in January

"Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan

Local Ram Dealer has 6 duall Wheeled cab and chassis and some with dump boxes already installed. Some are 3500 and 1 is a 5500. Only dealer around that has 1ton or bigger dual Wheeled trucks.

check the warranties very carefully on those Mahinders...

He who says there is no evil has already deceived himself
The truth is the truth, sugar coated or not. Trawler II says, "Remember that."

window guy (BIG firm in Ontario..) says used to be 6-8 weeks for windows, now 6-8 MONTHS as they can't get parts from the folks that gace used Covid-19, the CHINESE

3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112
Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor)

Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water

Chrysler is using bad chips (have a buddy who's MIL works at a plant here in Texas) and hoping that they'll work until the warranty runs out.

Even semi disk break drums are getting hard to find.

You'll never convince me this isn't coordinated.

humour me guys...

If (IF) there's such a huge shortage of 'parts' , why aren't there HUGE, MASSIVE layoffs at all the companies making cars, and tractors and widgets ???

Also heard Kubota will have a 12 % surcharge on tractors by end of year, 20% on implements...so if you want it, you'll pay through the nose.... surcharge is just a fancy name for price INCREASE, and of course up her ethe guv get 13% on top of that !!!

3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112
Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor)

Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water

The local Lumber yard ( the one I frequent most) had to hire extra inside and yard help to get through this.
It was getting to the point it was hard to find a place to park.
Now the past couple weeks you may be the only customer there.
That’s makin me nervous.
We have 4 big houses and my crew has 2 rental cabins under construction as we speak.
I seriously wonder how long this boom will last?

Had meetings last night. Went by the Ford dealer last night and saw 4 or 5 new Chevy/GMC trucks but no Fords.

I’ve seen on Facebook that many dealerships are adding a ‘market adjustment’ to the retail price of the few new vehicles that they have. I’m also hearing that many times a 2-4 year old used vehicles with 100K plus on the odometer in good cosmetic condition is selling for the same price as it sold for new.
Makes me wonder if what we’re going to see market wise in the next few years will compare to rationing during WW2...

"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian." Henry Ford

The new GM trucks I saw were on the Ford lot.
We don’t have a GM dealer anymore

Originally posted by Brian Jasper co. Ia

Brian Jasper co. Ia wrote:

I’ve seen on Facebook that many dealerships are adding a ‘market adjustment’ to the retail price of the few new vehicles that they have. I’m also hearing that many times a 2-4 year old used vehicles with 100K plus on the odometer in good cosmetic condition is selling for the same price as it sold for new.
Makes me wonder if what we’re going to see market wise in the next few years will compare to rationing during WW2...

Absolutely. We've had car salesmen in town literally come up to people cold call style and ask if they want to sell their vehicle. Or know of an extra vehicle somebody has and offer lucrative money for them just to move some product. Three dealerships in town have all taken this opportunity to seal coat their lots, not many cars to shuffle around!

In the case of my vehicle, there was 1 used one available in 2 weeks, it was being fixed in the body shop, 2 year lease turn in. There was a new one, fairly similar equipment, available in a month. The new one was $541 more than the used one. 2 more years of warranty and over the life of the loan CHEAPER due to lower interest rates on new versus used.

Scott B wrote:

I just sold a 2018 Ford Taurus for $2500 more than I paid for it 2 years ago. Bought a Jeep the Dealer had incoming. Used car prices are crazy! Have a 2016 f250 power stroke, no planning to sell but it doesn’t seem to carry the used car price craze

Scott a coworker had a 2016 power stroke. He’s kept it nice. Has around 100000 miles. He was recently offered $10000 more than he gave for it. He was gonna sell but he’s been unable to find a decent rig to buy if he sells. He finally decided to keep it.

Another point to go along with this Driver Shortage, local Scrap Yards are now witnessing the loss of their delivery drivers, one turned me away yesterday(08/30) as yard is FULL driver retired last month, second yard further out similar situation yet still accepted the tonnage I had to drop off. Their drivers BOTH retired within a week of each other, both in late sixties as was the other yard's driver. NO responses to ads for employment for a MONTH, made some calls where several yards are just closed, suspicion is Same reason and scrap is high again at $200 for tins, $215 for Prepared and $.28/lb for unprepared aluminum or copper.

Not gonna do anyone any good if cannot get scrap to markets as that supply chain also breaks down, scrap will skyrocket yet be worthless as immobile.

Edited by DMiller - 31 Aug 2021 at 6:11am

And the news said that all refinories in Alabama are closed do it huricane so lookout fuel prices.

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