G & T Truck Repair

we got some tractors on the table here uh alice chalmers we we were the agco dealer for many years so that kind of covered how did that product support look like from like uh alice chalmers is no longer in business

Yeah, they actually got bought out by Deutz-Fahr.

Deutz-Fahr.

So then it became Deutz-Alice, which was that guy there.

And originally, they were kind of a lime green color.

The Deutz tractors were.

I got them all.

I didn't bring any

He had a tractor over there.

He had a 5080 Deutz that a customer called and had been sitting for a little while.

And when they got it going, they were having some issues with it on the electrical side.

It was giving them some codes that they were getting some EGR problems.

He got over there, looked at it, seen the exact same thing, and was really questioning the EGR valve in it at all, but he finally got all the exhaust tore off of it, and somebody had been in there and broke the end off of the clip, and it was actually just barely plugged in, and so he was able to fix that one.

We have a new plug coming for him, but he's going to do that on the next trip when he's over there in eastern Colorado again.

He had to work on an 8280 Deutz over there that was having a... upstream sensor on the DPF that was, or I'm sorry, upstream on the, the DOC that was giving him some problems.

Uh, we had to send him a sensor so he could get that done.

So they were trying to build world-class horsepower, but they met their demise because first in a series of mainline manufacturers to be sold or merged with others was happening.

Um, their new owner became Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz, and they did not continue the Allis-Chalmers line as it stood in North America.

But before Allis-Chalmers was gone, they were a pioneer of the industrial age in the United States.

Besides tractors, what did they bring us? The first rotary cement kiln.

Where you kinda had a good sense for it.

About, oh, shoot, less than a year before Deutz took over.

Oh, okay, so it wasn't a ver- very long lead up.

No, no.

Baloney.

I said, "You said they wouldn't, they wouldn't come due." So anyway, so I canceled.

And actually, the last check I got from paying me back, 'cause they had to sell my parts, but it did come from Deutz-Allis.

Oh, wow.

We did get a new addition behind you.

This is a Deutz.

Yeah,

yeah.

So the Deutz line is a little, you know, we talked about Agco a little bit.

When this location started in the early 90s, we were a Deutz alice dealer, right? Yep, yep.

And so you sold Mark Hoekstra a Deutz Alice, and he got this pedal tractor.

He didn't want it no more, so he brought it back here.

And in the end, for Bonaire, it was basically a sad story because, um, it was just not possible to continue the station in a kind of commercial way, mainly because the price per hour would be too high because we had to generate all the electricity ourselves.

We had five huge Deutz, um, generators, but in the end, the price per hour-

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... was just too high for any commercial customer.

For a shop, guys, a shop update, we've got quite a few things that are going on in the shop right now.

We finished, if you listen to one of our last podcasts, we had a big 8280 Deutz in there that we did a lot of talk on.

And that tractor is out and back on the farm working and doing good.

We had that big Magnum in there that we got out a while ago.

But the new round of stuff that's in there, we have a 6175 Deutz that's come in from over on eastern Colorado, way over on the Kansas border.

And that 6175 tractor has a real, I don't know, it's kind of a bad situation for everybody.

The customer... has the tractor on a lease.

And when they worked on it, either they worked on it or somebody else worked on it, or you could actually even say there's a manufacturer failure there.