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I was thinking the same thing. Looks like John Deere is staying put right where they are.So what's the problem? USA & Mexico are now "one"
You’ll get it in a few months in Spanish.
They should be using our mexicans to make the tractors not their mexicans!So what's the problem? USA & Mexico are now "one"
Our Mexicans are stilled paid union wages and environmental regulations still increase costs. I know this was a bit of a joke but the left is making it too costly to do business in the USA and that’s a problem.They should be using our mexicans to make the tractors not their mexicans!
I still can't believe NY wants to bring in chip fab. The toxic chemicals from chip and board manufacturing is best suited for less-regged countries like China.
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It's not just farm equipment. It's the same with engines and transmissions, and prolly other vehicle systems, on many or maybe most every day vehicles. After manufacturers stopped making the relatively simple carbureted vehicles and went to computer controlled efi, that was the beginning of the end of simple repairs. I've ridden motorcycles for over 55 years. Maintenance and mods were easy to do, until computers controlled the bikes. Back in the day I was able to upgrade cams and other components, change jetting on the carbs, tweak the timing, and down the road we go. That simplicity is no more. I installed upgraded cams in my current 2015 Indian. After the cam change, a computer nerd at the dealer had to download a "stage 2" tune, which kept the bike running. I ended up downloading a tune myself from another source (a company able to break into the 'puter and modify the tune) to make it run as it should. Now, apparently a couple of years ago Indian (owned by Polaris) caught on to what guys were doing, and somehow locked the computers making it more difficult to crack the codes. I expect it's the same for cars, trucks, whatever rolls down the road.Fuck John Deere.
They've been making shit in Mexico for a while now. Oh, and they actively prevent farmers from fixing their own equipment so they can rape them on repairs. Newer tractors require the John Deere tech software and they won't sell it or let you have it. Many replacement parts are needlessly forced to be 'activated by that software to work, so even if you can actually do the work and replace the part, that still won't fix the tractor.
Why Are Farmers Battling for the Right to Fix Their Own Tractors?
American farmers are the quintessential do-it-yourself businesspeople. Yet tractor manufacturer John Deere forbids them from attempting to repair their agricultural machinery when it breaks down. But change could be coming.
I don't want to pop you balloon, but Orange stuff isn't any cheaper, reliable, or serviceable than Green, or Blue, or Red....When I worked on Post we had 'em all...Kubota's had to go back to the Dealer and so did Polaris.
The older Kubotas (pre-2004) are best. Pretty much metal everything. No emissions.
We’ll see they kick and choose what to enforce the environmental regulations on. They did on the rare earth magnets and now china controls the majority of the market so now they want them made here again and same with chips. They want to make polluting companies purchase carbon credits but steel making is exempt because it’s so energy heavy it would put them out of business allowing china to make more steel. But natural gas they say will go up 80% because of this and will likely die. Gasoline will go up heavily as well. So I guess the oil and gas producers support the republicans but the steel makers donate to dems.
Same here! Kubota got our money back in 2017 when we needed a new tractor. Zero problems, zero regrets.
