Found a niche at work
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Topic: Found a niche at work
Posted By: blue924.9
Subject: Found a niche at work
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2018 at 4:44pm
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As many here know I work at a deere dealer (to support my orange tractors I might add) I survived going to school for it down by shameless and have been full time employed for a month now. Was talking with the shop foreman who has been working on deere for 40 years and decided i was the guy to learn the old stuff being the other techs will pass it up. I told him I'll gladly learn anything he has to teach. He said it was his opinion I was the best to learn the old stuff because I genuinely enjoyed the older equipment. I'm glad to learn the old stuff due to them being a very relevant piece of farming even in modern times. ------------- hi my names dan, I am a young guy. i have a problem, i prefer my tractors orange and my clutches mechanical, thanks for letting me share |
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Posted By: dave63
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2018 at 6:21pm
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Great attitude ------------- The universal answer to all questions is yes, how much do you want to spend? |
Posted By: FloydKS
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2018 at 9:31pm
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You could say 'someone has to do it' ... but you can add, you like to work on older stuff AND it is probably easier to work on without all the electronic 'stuff'. have fun... ------------- Holding a grudge is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2018 at 10:00pm
| I too think you will enjoy it a lot! |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2018 at 10:01pm
| That's great! I'm glad to hear a fellow youngster (I'm 20) is still motivated to learn how to service all the older machines. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2018 at 10:12pm
| yeah....but they is still green! PffffT! I thoughts jd wanted all the old tractors and combines scrapped so the farmers would be forced to buy new? |
Posted By: blue924.9
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2018 at 10:14pm
In my opinion new is as easy as old but i grew up with it. I firmly believe the other guys are shooting themselves in the foot by passing up anything. Hell I got excited when I saw a 2 banger deere in the row to be fixed ------------- hi my names dan, I am a young guy. i have a problem, i prefer my tractors orange and my clutches mechanical, thanks for letting me share |
FloydKS wrote:Posted By: blue924.9
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2018 at 10:16pm
It could be shameless I try my hardest to keep out of that political stuff. I enjoy the customers and the machines but not the big corporation bs that comes with it lol ------------- hi my names dan, I am a young guy. i have a problem, i prefer my tractors orange and my clutches mechanical, thanks for letting me share |
Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2018 at 11:00pm
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Was at a Western Star dealership (old Ford / Sterling truck) and talking to mechanic . He was saying he was one of the few guys there willing to work on things that don't have computers - seems most of the mechanics only know how to do what comes up on the screen when truck is plugged in . Seems also they only have one mechanic who knows how to work on older Allison Automatics in Fords - there again unless it has a diagnostic mode when hooked to a computer they are at a loss - but then they do R and R only and not rebuilding of them . ------------- Life lesson: If you’re being chased by a lion, you’re on a horse, to the left of you is a giraffe and on the right is a unicorn, what do you do? You stop drinking and get off the carousel. |
Posted By: JoeM(GA)
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2018 at 6:50am
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Good choice, hope they’re willing to let him teach you! I too was the only young man that liked the “old”stuff and was will to help the customers that didn’t have new tractors. I even worked at a dealer in the 90’s who discouraged people from coming in that didn’t have modern equipment. Took me several years to prove to him that these people were worth dealing with, were fateful customers, and spent good money! If you learn it you will become the one people come in and ask for. At my Deere dealer it became go get Joe from the other counter (I worked at the service parts counter) he’ll know what i’m Talking about, he’ll help me. I always enjoyed it, got to meet some great people, and none of my bosses interfered with me when I was dealing with them. The same will go for you! Good luck! ------------- Allis Express North Georgia 41 WC,48 UC Cane,7-G's, Ford 345C TLB |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2018 at 7:33am
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That attitude will benefit you for the rest of your career ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2018 at 10:21pm
| yeah...you might even become the Dr Deere on another forum some day! |
Posted By: HudCo
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2018 at 9:43am
| i really dont mind rebuilding or doing majors for customers but you must be able to warranty it , mostly it is more profitable and cheaper to you and the customer to just r & r a componant that has the manufactures warranty on it . remember major or re built means EVERY part, nut bolt ect. is worked on not just most of it . thats very costly and time consuming in the shop . a componant that needs a small repiar shouldnot be over looked either |
Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2018 at 6:55pm
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That attitude will help to make you the go to guy in the shop. Learn all you can about the old equipment but don't forget what you have learned in school about the new equipment. A lot of the smaller operators want their older equipment repaired right at a fair price while the big time operators just want theirs to last until the lease runs out. Glad Shameless didn't teach you any of his devious ways while you were down his way. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2018 at 10:34pm
| Hubert...he hasn't showed up here to be handed sum good advice yet! |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2018 at 2:58pm
| Shameless, teach him to make the Deere 60's pop real loud! |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2018 at 11:35pm
| lol...Creston...I could prolly do that! that wAS THE onlyest times I ever had fun with any green tractors |