Re: Six left

Posted by NC wayne on October 18, 2019 at 11:51:18 from (173.189.97.253):

In Reply to: Six left posted by Al Baker(pumpman) on October 18, 2019 at 06:33:20:

I'm 51, going on 52, and my Dad's 71.
Would I prefer to live the life of my parents, or ancestors, you bet I would.

For those that talk about technology, I'll agree things have come a long way in some areas, medicine for instance. In other areas, technology doesn't help us as much as it does to drive even more technology. That said, there is a huge difference between advances like a round bailer vs a square bailer, a gas tractor vs a diesel tractor, etc, etc, and the electronic, computer controlled EVERYTHING we see now days.

Think about it, what would you rather have, a car that needed a $50 valve job at 50K miles, and lasted as long as you could afford to make repairs, or a car that runs on average 90K mikes before a timing belt breaks, and trashes the engine, meaning you need another vehicle? How about one that is involved in a fender bender, that does just that, rather than totalling the vehicle? Just saw the latter last night when my wife got hit in the rear. Car A at 45 MPH, hit B that was sitting still and pushed it into our Suburban. The other cars are probably totalled. Our Suburban has a bent bumper and a dent in the liftgate, and is still drivable.

On equipment, here's what I've seen. Tractor is sold with all the bells and whistles, with the promise of fuel savings, etc. Fuel is saved, at say $1000 a year for 5 years. When all the bells and whistles screw up at the 6 year mark, the repairs needed to all that technology cost you $10K, on top of the lost production costs until the dealer gets around to you. Does anyone really see any savings in that equation?
That's not saying old equipment doesn't break, but when you, or your mechanically inclined buddy, can change your own turbo, injectors, etc, on a weekend, without needing a dealers computer to do it, you wind up way further ahead.

As far as things like bring in a crop, again, there is technology for that too. But what do you do when the GPS fails, the computer that runs your bailer fails, etc, it's Friday, and you've got hay on the ground with rain coming?

As I said, technology has driven technology. Better medical means more people. More people means more food. More food means more technology to make more food and do it faster. Doing it faster means you're running around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to do more with less, and do it in less time, and staying in debt to afford the technology to do it...until that technology let's you down.

In the end, I'd much rather live 60 years and actually LIVE, rather than living to be 80+ and essentially being a slave to technology my whole life, as most really are, if they'd admit it.

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