Re: (ET) Elec-trak Digest, Vol 3, Issue 109

["Tim Humphrey" <hump evgrin com>]

Of Course, tastes vary. But in my opinion, if someone were to make a "new"
Elec-Trak, styled somewhat like the 40's and 50's John Deere farm
tractors, and they were priced "with deck" at less than 3k, I think they
would have a hard time keeping up with demand.

Of course, we all know what opinions are like.....

everyone has one and they all stink,....... except mine  :-)





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>
>
John Darwin Powers
>
> I visited the Edmond site.  It looks like an MTD.  Personally, I like the
> appearance of the GE/Wheel Horse version.  Remember how nice the Cub 
> Cadet
> tractor with the cast iron grill looked?  These two designs are nice and
> clean.  I can't but wonder how much it costs to make the sheet-metal dies
> or
> the molds for the "bulbus" looking plastic hood components, and these
> costs
> are of course conveyed to the buyer.
> Somewhere in time, the designers of mowers had to follow the car
> manufactures in "curving" their designs  (some of this was done to 
> control
> engine noise emission with "unitized" hood designs).  You could also 
> watch
> the construction equipment manufactures follow the same trend.  Though 
> the
> sphere is the most efficient use of space, I have never seen a spherical
> battery to fit the same space, so it would seem that it would be better
> for
> form to follow function.  I wonder what it would cost in manufacturing
> terms
> to duplicate the E-20 for current production?  For any given year plus
> fifteen more, there will always be more GE's around than the MTD that
> would
> be fifteen years old (make sense?).  Longevity ... the best measure of
> design, but it does not sell mowers.  By the way ... what does a New Idea
> Tractor look like?
> Anyone out there have a link?  Oh, and one other thing ... maybe it would
> be
> nice to find a designer who works for MTD and who would join the group as
> a
> "guest" contributor on "current" design attitudes.
>
> John
>
>
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