Posted by JD Seller on February 20, 2016 at 19:20:11 from (208.126.198.123):
I remember some older famers talking about how they never really liked the switch from horses to tractors. I often thought this was strange in that the amount of physical work was so greatly reduced. I am beginning to understand what they where talking about.
I am finding the advance of technology is leaving me behind. I can understand most mechanical systems. I also seem to really need to be able to visualize the system in my mind to really be able to work and repair it. I can't do this with the computerization that modern equipment has on it. I am not totally computer illiterate either, I just can't understand how they work at the deepest level.
So when I see posts like David G. electronically controlled fuel system for his MH 44, I feel a little lost. I know that my skill set is no longer up to date. That makes me uncomfortable.
I see many others on here talking about advanced electrical theories and my eyes just glaze over. It is beyond what I can comprehend. My sons are advancing the equipment we use on the farm with this technology. The GPS systems are formidable in what they can do. It makes the skill set needed to efficiently run the equipment be totally different. Being able to drive straight and gauge your distance is not worth much when the system can easily do that within inches automatically.
I have not ran either of the newer corn planters in the last three years because of this. I do not feel comfortable running them. This extends to the combines. Between the adjustments being electronic which depend on accepting the loss monitor's readings and then the auto steer systems I just do not like driving them. I have put less than ten hours in either of the JD 9660s.
I find that I am not comfortable running things that just take pushing some buttons to work without understanding what/how the system works. I can take a hydraulic system apart and repair it because I know how it is supposed to work. I can even look at a wiring diagram and understand electrical systems with just switches an circuits. I can not totally understand how computer LOGIC works. A CAN bus system is beyond me. Other than vaguely knowing what it is I could never repair or fix one. I have also found that I can not "learn" this type of stuff anymore. I have tried and I retain very little of it into long term understanding.
So I guess it is a good thing I do not have to depend on working with these systems to provide for myself. I would be pretty useless in most of these modern systems.
Am I an odd duck??? Is it just "age"??? I can see myself being the old fart cussing the automatic systems that he can't even use!!! LOL
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