Re: Story on a Cheap mechanic!!

Posted by Billy NY on February 13, 2013 at 13:47:36 from (72.226.79.200):

In Reply to: Re: Story on a Cheap mechanic!! posted by Erik Ks farmer on February 13, 2013 at 10:53:13:

I would tend to agree, but this diesel shop, which I can see from my kitchen window, has always done excellent work, has a lot of fleet customers and smaller outfits, is absolutely high priced, thats just how it is with him, take it or leave it he don't care. I know their work as many trucks I have driven came out of his shop, complete overhauls, trans overhaul, and all sorts of repairs and maintenance.

You have to remember, this farmer did not maintain his success by not being savvy about where he spends his money. He turned down another shop that has done most of the work on his old DM Mack sileage body truck, which has been replaced by a much newer R Model. I've heard of the outfit before, that did the job on the 4440, but don't know much about them.

Having been in the construction business, and involved with over 59 high dollar commercial and residential projects (early in my career) to the tune of hundreds of millions, public and private well over $500 Million in value, I know absolutely beyond a shadow of a doubt that the lowest bidder is not always and often times not the best bid. By the same token, I also know that some bids are way over on price, to the point of greed.

In this situation he was smart, the tractor was taken off line before it had a catastrophic failure, most of the crops and field work was done so the timing was good to shop, by the same token, he's not a cheapskate, though some might think it, he knows well enough to never have work done by a guy like JD Seller describes, I think the price may have been reasonably less, well worth shipping out, but not a lowball price for questionable work, the motor was done right, and it did not sit there for months, it was done in a timely fashion. In a pinch he would deal with this guy, I used to bring his commercial truck their for inspection, problem is it always seemed he needed a high priced repair, take it to the other truck/diesel shop, not so. Maybe your profits are better, his were always marginal and provided a decent paycheck, but nothing more. He kept and maintained most of his equipment in field ready condition, preventative maintenance and similar was always done, sometimes intervals stretched like any farmer when they get busy, but nonetheless, relatively well kept and usually under a roof. I've heard some say he had the first dollar he ever made, and have heard it said to his face by the owner of the local NH dealer, and I always told him, don't listen to that crap, none of their business what you have and what you do to keep it, farming is most certainly a very risky business, he's been at it for 60 years in the same location, not to many others can say the same.

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