JD you"re just bummed because the new stuff has so much strange adjustments. Remember the basic way the equipment works hasn"t changed. Corn is still stripped off the cob the same basic way and beans come out of the pods the same way. All the new stuff is to make it easier for the operator to set the machine up; BUT is it? I contend you have to get out of the cab and look at the what"s on the ground behind the machine to decide just how to set it up. There"s a gentleman around here that really knows how to fix equipment but he doesn"t know how to set them up. Every time he says "OK you"re good to go" I"ll start then get out look at the ground behind and into the tank then make a few adjustments and repeat until it"s combining clean with as close to nothing on the ground as possible. The field doesn"t turn green 2 weeks later. New equipment doesn"t work like that. I didn"t have the previlege of starting like you did--not a bad thing just the way it was. My job move from Washington State to Washington DC and 100 miles from my Grandfather"s farm. My Aunt, owned it, needed someone to farm it so I decided to. Bought some old equipment and my second cousin gave advice and i borrowed other equipment or hired out work till I could purchase my own. Learned what I could do and what I couldn"t and 4 years later bought my own place, still 100 miles away. My cousin taught me well and I also learned by listening and watching the older farmers and younger ones. I"ve watched young guys get big ideas buy big equipment, pay high rents, hire people to do the work and ride around giving direction--and go bankrupt in less then 5 years. I watched a younger farmer from a successful farm run his equipment dirty and not repaired, listened to a good mechanic complain about the work to keep that stuff running and then see it burned. Read the latest Progressive Farmer there is an article about a farmer in my area (Northern Neck of Virginia) and how good he is doing. That article only hints at the back story.
I think you taught you your sons the right way. Maybe they can purchase new equipment but Ild bet they don"t just blindly trust all the sensors.
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