Last year both dad and I were drilling soys, in 2 separate fields right next to each other. The neighbor was just as you described with his green tractor, in the middle of the field, planter down, markers down, stopped. A while later along came a service van from the nearest dealer, then after awhile, another service van came along. Those 2 guys worked on that thing most of an entire day. We had long gotten our fields planted and moved on to other ones. When I asked the neighbor about it, all he said was it was the *@#* electronics that kept messing up. Talking to a buddy with a new big red tractor, he was set back planting for a couple weeks with electronic glitches with his planter. I guess the planter talks to the tractor, which talks back to the planter, and the planter controls the output/flow of the tractor based on the planter's needs. He said it would go alright for a little while, then he'd have alarms going off and it would stop planting. It's not like an old one where you can keep going and just have a few skips or something. If it's not planting at 100%, it will not plant at all until the issue us fixed. In my friend's case, it was intermittent, so it was kind of a nightmare. The dealer couldn't figure it out at first, whether it was the tractor or planter, so they had them switch tractors on the planter, and it was still intermittently screwing up, so they figured out it was in the planter, and pinpointed it so some type of controller or computer on the planter. My dad's employer had bought a new JD backhoe with the excavator controls. It had wiring issues with the controls and functions from day one. They must have had the dealer out there 25 times fixing electronic issues until it was out of warranty. A few out of pocket repairs after that, and it was shipped down the road for a lease on a different brand and less troublesome one. Electronics can be great when they work, but when they don't work they can be a royal nightmare. Yeah, old stuff can break as well, but usually it's a mechanical failure/fix. When operating properly, they can be great time savers and efficiency increasers. But, I'm betting all of us at some time have cursed them lol. Also, like another poster said, they don't all have issues, some run great for a long time with no problems. As well as some of our purely mechanical? Nah.
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