Scale Models? That's another topic. Mike Pennimen, Lytton Farm Equipment, Lytton Iowa, told me the 'Toy" companies like Ertl charge the machine manufacture $50,000 to make the dies.
This area was just full of Kelly Ryan/Blair feed wagons in the sixties, and seventies, but you will not see a single scale model.
I think he was talking about smaller models of equipment. Like the old pull behind combine, where you didnt have the extra maintenance of another powertrain, or pull behind 3 row chopper, things like that. Combines the size of the old JD4420, yeah it took a little longer, but new equipment cost so much it's frequently better for financials to hire a custom operator. And anybody that has farmed knows how big of a pain in the ass it is to get a custom operator when you need them because everyone else is needing them at the same time. Thats how i took it anyways.
