Are John Deere Riding Tractors Next At Home Depot??

[jonspolaris]

i see in the most recent Home depot flyer that they carry John Deere push mowers. Has anyone compaired ther price to the price that a JD dealer would sell them for??
does anybody know what the JD dealers think about HD selling there Product??

Now how Long before HD sells John deere Riding tractors??

thanks

[lee b]

Home Depot already sells John Deere built lawn and garden tractors. There sold under the Scott's brand name, but I doubt you'll see the green and yellow ones there.

[jonspolaris]

i know they have the Scotts brand at HD. i thought that Scotts was a "watered-down" version of a JD. i was surprised to see a full blown John deere push mower at HD. so if they would sell a JD push mower, why not a Riding mower or Tractor???

[Richard Martin]

The tractor, Scotts, that they currently sell at The Home Depot is the bottom of the line John Deere. There are very few features that a John Deere, or for that matter a Sabre, and a Scotts share. I wholeheartedly encourage my competitors to continue buying these fine mowers.

[steve]

Over the next few years John Deere will be selling all they're lawn & garden equip at Home Depot. Also they are going to make they're dealers train the home depot employees how to sell JD.

Where do you get service??? Your local JD service center (your former JD dealer)

I think the JD dealers will be dropping JD over the next couple years!

[cajuncutter]

RICHARD!!!
ME TOO!!!!
The more of those ridding belly mowers those guys get the more work I get. Those things tear yards up!!

[Rodg]

Exxxcuse me for being rude-but I run a walker and also one of those JD "belly mowers." Sorry to burst your bubble, but a lot of my people have a preference as to which rider I use on their lawn...and it isn't the walker! John Deere builds a good machine-anybody who thinks differently should drive down the block and see how many John Deere dealers they run into compared to "other" mowers. John Deere runs and runs and keeps on running! Can't say that about my walker! It gives me more trouble in one month than my JD has given me in 3 years!

[lee b]

What have ya'll been smoking????? Deere dealers are gonna drop the Deere line!!!!! What horseschitt is that. Deere dealers make a killing off the Deere lawn and garden tractors because they sell so many of them. There the most popular lawn tractor built. Even the cheapo's that buy murrays dream of owning a Deere tractor oneday. Deere dealers that I know ain't about to give-up a moneymaker. Did you really hear this somewhere, or just make it up?

[steve]

I heard it somewhere

[Skookum]

Our local Lowes is just like a Home Depot and they sold the JD Sabre (Lime green color) models for a few years. The JD dealer was ticked because he sold it as well but not at the same low price as the Lowes. The JD dealer quit having any in the showroom right after the salesman told me that.

Our Walmarts our now selling the same Snapper 21" that I use. I do not see too many being sold though at $580.00 I bought mine a few years back at about $620.00 from the dealer. Just seems too much money for a Walmart item.

Several years ago our Sam's club was selling a commercial walkbehind and a ztr. I believe they were made by Black Rock Manufacturing. They were called gold eagle or something like that. Good prices on them too.

[GPDesign1]

Yes, Home Depot is going to carry the Deere tractor line.

FWIW, Scotts is Murray, not JD.

Gary

[lee b]

Scotts brand tractors ARE NOT built by murray. Don't believe me? Then go to the Deere website and see for yourself http/www.deere.com/

[MikeGA]

Look on the back of the Scotts build starting I think two years ago, maybe the year before. They have a serial plate which I Believe says JONH DEERE and in the model # is SCOTT. Also Look at the belts DEPOT has for the Scott. They say DEERE with a DEERE part # on them stuck in a SCOTT sleeve.
My Brother bought a Scott Two years ago when I bought my Crapsman (by the way for the ones reading my lease to friend thread, I am selling the guy the Crapsman). He compared the DEEREs and the SCOTTS and one of the DEERE models was, he said, IDENTICAL to the one he bought with the 25hp Kohler 52" or 54" deck and 2 pedal hydro transmission. The Scott was something like $1000 to $1200 less than the DEERE. The 25hp Kohler bent a ??push rod?? I think, and he took it to the Deere dealer we do our AG business with and they did the repair work UNDER WARRENTY!!
I talked to the Parts man over at DEERE last week and asked him about the weed eaters at home depot and he didn't know. he then said if they were going to cary them then he guessed he didn't need to carry them also. I picked up a book of Deere power tools and showed him, "right there are the ones at Home Depot." He didn't know anything about THE DEPOT carrying the DEERE equipment. The weed eaters he had on display were yellow and black instead of green, but they were probably last years or the year before that. He also had on display the homelite weed eaters.
My prediction for the future of DEERE and DEPOT is, in the near future (later this year or at least in the next two years) the Scotts will be dropped and DEPOT will carry the Green and Yellow DEERE. you will still have the choice of where to buy your DEERE and the dealer will have to get more competetive but you will get full service at your DEERE Dealer. BUT DEPOT will not be carrying the comercial line of DEERE, maybe a custom order deal.

Just my predictions on the last part the other is fact I have seen.

[jonspolaris]

i dont know if the Scotts is identical to the JD, i think there is some differences.

if HD carried JD line of tractors wouldent that put alot of Dealers out of business??
HD would be able to sell them cheaper. wouldent the JD dealers complain to the JD headquarters about the unfair competition??

when can i expect to see a JD LX or GT at HD???

thanks

[GPDesign1]

It may be that the "Scotts" deal has expanded to include some higher end products manufactured by Deere. But I can tell you for a fact, many of the Scotts products (tractors included) are or were manufactured by Murray because I've seen them running down the line in their Lawrenceburg, TN plant. It's my understanding that Home Depot did a "clean house" deal with Deere, meaning that Deere would put their main line products in HD if HD would get rid of all their other brands. String trimmer products are Homelite (which is also owned by Deere).

[MikeGA]

Scotts WERE built by Murray untill DEERE bought, I assume, the SCOTTS name. What I have seen on my bros SCOTTS, it is built a he!! of alot better than ANY Murray i have ever seen, more along the line of the old DEEREs we have owned.

[MikeGA]

I just looked down in a stack next to my desk and found the book I picked up at DEERE last week. The "PRO-SERIES" line of Line trimmers are yellow and black and the "Homeowner" line if line trimmers (like at DEPOT) are green and black. But the "Pro-Series" chain saws (LD pro, HD Pro and Pro) are green and black. Pumps, generators, blowers, hedge trimmers and block saws are yellow and black. They have two back-pack blowers, one setup like a Homelite with the "joy-stick" control on the pipe coming out the right and the other looking like the ECHO with the control on a seperate stick on the left side??? GO figure?

[lawman]

I do not belive that Home Depot will have the type of equipment that we will need.