Skill ranks above and beyond. Distance is also a major factor. Also keep materials on hand.
As for farmer machine shops in my area there are only two. One of them you are better off chewing up some bubblegum and fixing it that way yourself. The other which is a bit further does very good work at a fair price.
As for making a living at this serving the farming community alone you will starve. Had a young man start one up here in the home town. He did excellant work and I wish he was still in business. Reason he shut down is he was running a flame cutting table making parts for local manufacturing. I recognized that if those accounts ever dried up he was done. Fortunatly he did also. When that work dried up in the slowdown he shut his doors and went to work for one of the local manufacturing plants.
What I am saying here is do good work. Keep a decent inventory of material. Above all have some steady work lined up to keep the doors open.
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