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Posted by Paul in Mich on November 02, 2003 at 17:48:43 from (24.231.161.191):

In Reply to: Re: Re: using older tractors today as there main posted by Hugh MacKay on November 02, 2003 at 15:55:15:

Hugh, You are absolutely right. There's no reason for constantly buying the banker a new house and car. If a good preventative maintainance schedule is maintained, then there is no reason that a 25 or 30 year old tractor can't do the same job that a new one at the tune of $75,000 upward can do. We don't mind trusting an an airliner that is 30 years old with our lives, so why not farm with older equipment. I believe that the engineering advances in recent years have not been in the tractors, but some of the equipment such as no till planters, haying equipment, sugar beet harvesters, to mention a few, but tractors made their biggest technological jump forward with the addition of live pto, and live hydraulics over 40 yrs ago. If newer is better, then why is the Farmall A thru 140 still one of the most sought after tractors in vegtable truck farms and tobacco farms? Answer is that for those applications, a 64 yr old design does the job as will as the latest and greatest. Most of the expensive repairs on tractors can be minimized simply by keeping clean oil and filters in the system as well as using a grease gun often. Even the new ones will go south if not properly maintained.

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