Michael Porter

I think it's day and age.

Yeah, it's hard to keep secrets anymore.

Especially when you want to go around and get testing hours and stuff on stuff.

So put one on a truck and you cross your fingers.

No one's got a cell phone that sees it and knows what it is and takes a picture.

But you're wrong every time.

Yeah, it's been in the works for a really long time.

I mean, we were trying to pay kind of exactly when maybe this exact one was probably developed, but it's six to 10 years ago.

Some of the design work and stuff started happening and feasibility builds.

But yeah, I mean, the thought has always been there.

The row crops continue to get bigger.

This exact kind of machine form finally started to take shape when we talked to customers.

And the cool part about it is

Seeing the customers who've been with it from the get-go get to see them finally see it for the first time and hear about what they asked for and some of those is a cool part of it.

So yeah, it's been a long time in the making.

If we haven't said it, it's 8R440, 8R490, and the 8R540.

So again, those customers that have been out there saying, I need something bigger, but I don't want to go to a four-wheel drive in the articulated, or I am using a four-wheel drive articulated, but would love to have a row crop tractor and...

I think the maybe the cooler part is what isn't different about it which is you know the turning radius and all these other things so it's uh it's been a really cool project so couldn't you have just put a bigger motor in the same frame that you have no no the answer actually is no so hood frame uh chassis and I mean just getting you could put a big engine in something that doesn't mean you're gonna get traction right it's not you gotta get the power to the ground I mean you can

You can have probably, you name the number horsepower tractor, it doesn't mean it's going to deliver on that.

And that's the big part is the number of the sticker doesn't matter if you can't get it to the ground.