Here's the problem. It's good for that guy and his son that they have the skills, equipment, and most important the TIME to tear that tractor down. Time is the most valuable commodity to most people and it's the one thing that you can't make more of or buy more of.
So for every producer like in your post, there are now probably a hundred of more tractor buyers who WANT the swappable core unit. Why? Because time = money. With the size of operations, these days and the stress producers are under to keep equipment in the field, the premium is on the speed of repairs, not on being able to spend 10 man-days tearing down and rebuilding a tranny to save money.
Also, what if those guys on the video miss something? What if it isn't "just one little gear"? 99.9% of the time guys won't own up to the fact that they just sunk hours and hours of time into something and then botched the repair by missing something so you never hear about good fixes gone bad.
You have to weigh risks, is the risk of the low-cost fix worth it if that machine gets 5 days into planting and goes belly up again? Just something to think about. Everybody thinks they represent the average customer, but in truth, the manufacturers make things the way they do for a reason.
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