Posted by JD Seller on January 30, 2018 at 18:39:28 from (208.126.196.24):
In Reply to: Re: OT is it just me?? posted by Al Baker(pumpman) on January 30, 2018 at 16:30:19:
Al the number of farmers and people playing with older farm equipment will continue to decline. It started over 150 years ago. The homesteaders where hard pressed to make a living off the 160 acres the majority of them claimed for living there and improving it. So the consolidation of land began shortly after that time period. What your seeing is just that moving forward.
The majority of the serious farmers have little need of your type of services. Yours is not the only business effected that way. Radiator shops, starter/alternator shops, machine shops, etc. have all been effected too. Then you add in the trend of people not repairing anything and just going to buy new, you have lower demand for many trades.
A very good friend of mine bought/sold used farm machinery with his brother-in-law for forty years. He quit about 20 years ago because he could see the majority of his customer base was gone. The small 30-50 cow dairies in Dubuque County where dying. So the demand for smaller equipment slowly tapered off.
Then also technology is making fewer new machines that you can provide services for. With the new high pressure fuel rail systems you rarely would rebuild an injector and there is not an injection pump on the tractor. Tons of computer stuff driven by emission requirement made the transition happen fast.
I am in the same boat. About any large tractor made in the last ten years is beyond my knowledge or skill to repair. I am becoming obsolete. LOL
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