Just remember buying one whole is cheaper than buying one piece by piece. More and more equipment is becoming like cars and light trucks, if you don't keep after them and repair and maintain them to the standards you want them to be before to long the backlog of repairs will exceed the value of the item. If it costs 5 times more to buy the parts to assemble something (tractor baler or whatever) than to buy a whole one than any time you're replace 20% of the something it should cost the same to buy another one, and you haven't dealt with labor. It would also mean if you bought a good one and could sell every part you should in theory get 5 times your money back. The price and complexity of new equipment has driven some folks to want to keep the old stuff going, driving up the demand for parts. Add the increased cost of doing business (labor, healthcare, taxes, regulatory costs, environmental costs, energy) you're paying a larger percentage of your parts dollar for overhead and a smaller percentage for the actual part. Some of it might be economies of scale if back in the day you were going to make parts for tractors like Farmall H's and M's, Ford 8ns and John Deere A's and B's there were several hundred thousand units made, the potential market was a bit larger so R&D and tooling costs could be amortized across more parts sold, don't think we're ever going to see anyone make 500,000 units of the same model tractor again. But again JD you look at things like a business, to many farmers don't and make decisions based on the need to keep doing what they were doing, to stay with what they know or to keep the family farm operating somewhat like the previous generations did.
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Today's Featured Article - Usin Your Implements: Bucket Loader - by Curtis Von Fange. Introduction: Dad was raised during the depression years of the thirties. As a kid he worked part time on a farm in Kansas doing many of the manual chores. Some of the more successful farmers of that day had a new time saving device called a tractor. It increased the farm productivity and, in general, made life easier because more work could be done with this 'mechanical beast'. My dad dreamed that some day he would have his own tractor with every implement he could get. When he rea
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