JD Combines

**passingthru69** · 05.06.2012

Take a drive down to Waterloo and see if Warren has any on their yard..

Go under cover of course, drive in with the door signs that say Midwest.. That will get them riled up..

**cpape** · 05.06.2012

I believe Molinaro finally retired and the mothership bought the rest of the company. I am sure ATS will let them keep doing things their own way as long as they make money. Their open deck deck division is struggling to find contractors.

**passingthru69** · 05.06.2012

Warren or Midwest?

I needed to put a deck insert in my trl. several years back in Waterloo. I asked about going there to have it done. Was kinda like asking for somebodies first born.
Was told, call a wrecker and do not go to their yard.. Ok..

**cpape** · 05.06.2012

Warren.

I don't know much about Midwest...except both of them are owned by ATS.

**passingthru69** · 05.06.2012

Yes, I know they owned both of them
Warren for years. And from my understanding let them run the show from Waterloo.

I pick at them some calling them the little andys from Ia. Most kinda laugh, but a few get real mad about it. No sense of humor.
I do know when they bought out Midwest there were some o/o's there not happy and they left..
But again I believe they do their own thing.
Me,I'm not privy to those type of things. I understand why as I'm not an owner or big chief up the ladder.. haha

**cpape** · 05.06.2012

My understanding is that ATS let's both operate completely independently.

**passingthru69** · 05.06.2012

Yep, they do that with all the compainies they own. Funny thing is even their International div. is run seprate and the trucking end has to bid on their hauls for them in the U.S.

**Cluck Cluck** · 05.06.2012

We drug those from mn to ok back up to nd and back to mn yes I was 19-21 I didn't know any better

**cpape** · 05.07.2012

FYI--below is the message I received from the site manager at JD Harvester regarding combines on step decks.

No commercial carriers will not be loaded with step decks. I am unsure if will call carriers have ever been loaded with combines, but would imagine they would be close to 15’ H loaded, if not higher.