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There's an element of Deja vu to this.
In 1960 John Deere unveiled its closed center hydraulic system, where the same hydraulic pump powered everything. Egged on my competitors, farmers freaked out when the discovered that the steering wheel was only connected to a hydraulic valve and the brake pedals likewise only went to hydraulic valves. (not to mention every other hydraulic function was powered by the same pump). There were tales of all kinds of disasters that supposedly happened when the steering or brakes quit when you used the front end loader. There never was a real problem, but IHC and the other competition sure tried to make JD's system look dangerous - until they adopted it themselves.
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