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Posted by Indydirtfarmer on July 08, 2004 at 06:08:32 from (66.83.236.250):
In Reply to: Question for new tractor buyers--a little long... posted by Wayne on July 07, 2004 at 20:59:35:
One of the biggest problems equipment manufacturures face today, is the same issue that most any business has to deal with. Insurance Liability. One of the reasons your hoses are so hard to get, is so that every little repair shop across the country isn't making their own hoses, and installing them on someones "new" tractor. That hose explodes, and every ambulance chaser/quack lawyer in America is trying to get the owner to file a lawsuit. Something else to think about. Probably 90% or more of todays new farm tractors are sold to BIG farming operations. The small guy just can afford them anymore. The wants and needs of farmers doing 5000 acres or more, are very different than someone with 35 acres of "hobby farm". Most of those big guys have service techs from the dealer do the bulk of the work on this new stuff. It's not "shadetree mechanic" type equipment anymore. It's hard for the little guy to relate to BIG corperate America's way of doing things. I'm not making excuses for the way things are. Just commenting ON the way things are. And we can't/won't change them............John
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