The newest machines here are a '95 9500 combine and '96 7800 tractor. The combine has been trouble free, but it has been on this farm since '96. The tractor has had several computer and electrical quirks but I bought it with 7000 hours. It sure isn't like buying an old 4440 with 7000 hours. I did buy a 1760 planter to hook on the tractor, but I don't see me getting any more tech advanced than that. I always laugh when I see the guys with guidance and auto steer plant a perfect field. Then they hire the Coop to come in and spray and run over half their crop in jagged lines. One of the guys even owns his own sprayer but only does his own burn down. I might not have perfect rows, but I can snap a line with the gps and follow it to spray my own crop. My savings is in doing it all myself. Sure, I use a cheap gps to plant and spray, but that's about as fancy as I get. I just can't imagine those new machines lasting like the '49 Farmall M that grinds all of my feed on an old JD 400 grinder each week. The plastic beasts will be long gone when they are 15 years old.
You know, I just happened to think about the skid steer. It's about 7 years old. It's a nightmare. Deere has been trying to make it right for the last six weeks since it caught fire. Today they came out with a laptop and recalibrated the boom. The beginning of the week they are coming out to recalibrate the hydros and remote couplers. I wish it had burned all the way up when it caught fire.
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