1/64th Short Line Survey
By: Nate Sawyer
I asked a while back for you the reader to take part in a 1/64th short line survey. The poll was open for a month. I asked you to give me your top three short line company and implements. Not knowing how many would vote and just what the public would say made the results an an impossible guess.
The poll included 32 people casting 96 votes. Every region, state, county, farm is different from the next. As you know there are lots of short lines that concentrate on certain categories of agriculture such as tillage, planting, harvesting, and grain and so on. Choosing a small short line company is not just a random job. There are grain farmers, dairy farmers, vegetable farmers, sugar beet farmers, cotton farmers and more.
All together some companies and their product stand out from the rest because of popularity. This is how the poll fell accordingly.
1. Sunflower tillage-(12.5%)
2. Kruase Tillage- (10.4%)
3. Gehl Hay and Forage-(9.3%)
4. Great Plains Drill-(7.2%)
5. Richardson Dump Wagon-(3.1%)
6. Ties; A. White planter, B. Great Plains Tillage, C. Brillion Tillage, D. Hesston Hay and Forage, E Willrich Tillage, F. Nuhn Slurry tank, G. DMI tillage, Hardy pull-type sprayer, I. Pull-type Bean Combine. –(18.7%, 2 votes each)
7. Other- (38.5%, 1 vote each)
Some of the items submitted did not surprise me. Collectors on Toy Talk are always asking for Sunflower and Krause Tillage, Great Plains seeders, Ghel choppers, Hesston Big Balers, White corn planters , DMI tillage equipment for the STX and TJ 4wds. What I was surprised by was that we did not have any votes for Claas self-propelled choppers or any type of telehandler.
Thank you all who participated and I hope you too like the outcome of this poll. I presented this poll to Mr. Bill Walters an Ertl representative at the National toy show this November. He too liked this idea very much and was excited to work on something. He said he would take the top four and do a poll himself . But that is all he could comment as to he just received this survey. I will let you know in the future if this goes anywhere. You can e-mail me at Sawyer64@toytractortimes.com .
Lets keep pushing for 1/64 implements.
Thanks again
Nate Sawyer
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