Posted by littlefarmer on November 22, 2020 at 11:21:38 from (104.240.142.42):
Two recent videos on Youtube, about how manufacturers are making stuff that is impossible to fix. Whether it is farm equipment, laptop computers, or laundry machines:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPYy_g8NzmI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr3nZpNHWnw
Both videos interview farmers who have expensive equipment that they can no longer fix themselves. And how independent repair shops are "frozen out" from the manufacturer, by them refusing to share repair information with owners and independent repair shops. Such as information on error codes on computer driven equipment.
Several states are trying to pass laws forcing the big farm equipment manufacturers to supply information to end users. The push-back from the industry has been intense. None of these bills have passed yet.
John Deere is now making some of this information available. But as one independent mechanic points-out, it is largely a PR ploy. They are adding so many "ifs" "ands" and "buts" that most owners and non-dealer mechanics still can't get the tech information they need.
As a do-it-yourselfer, who does all my own machinery repairs, it kinda makes be glad I do my farming with a 1948 M and H. And having my 1980's IH 1420 combine!
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