 shameless (ne) wrote:
but the big stuff can save you money, can save you time, and save you fuel doing spring and fall tillage work. if you can buy a 2 row machine for $5000, and a 6 row machine for $2500...you know which one i'd be buying! the parts are the same price. they are all expensive. a lot of people think they have to match the size of equipment with the size of the farm. that's not true anymore, as most of the small stuff has been junked thru the years in favor of larger. both by the farmer and by the manufacturers and dealers. there are still deals out there, just hafta find them!
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That is the exact fight I grew up with and dealt with most my life with our older equipment. For what we wanted to do all of it was being ran at or above it's intended design limits day in and day out and cost a fortune in time money and labor to keep up.
Now with the big machines that same workload is now so far below their designed working range that the only maintenance I have to do other than fluid changes is for age related failures to things like wiring, heating and AC systems components, hydraulic lines, fuel lines and a few O-ring, seals and gaskets and such that just got old and aged to death well before we ever acquired them.
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