Ritchie Brothers Roleau

[LEP]

I really think they think they are running at the lowest cost. If you do it long enough you lose the practical side of equipment costs and get brainwashed.

Besides image is everything with them.

I think I have told this story before about a now bto who was on the way up. He was buying a truck from a guy in the patch that was to be used for a water truck. He talked about how he ground this guy and ground this guy on price. Eventually buying it for something like $7k. Then turned around and spent $3k to paint it. It was a piece of junk mechanically, but it looked good.

[the big wheel]

You'd be surprised how many farms now where maintenance is a complete disaster even something simple as greasing does not get done sometimes at all during a harvest season. I know this because some new people I hired were shocked we actually went over the machines each morning while fuelling. Of cours one was still waiting to get paid wages from the last place last fall also.
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A lot of those machines will have wore out pieces long prior to what they should be.

But that isn't always the case.

[WiltonRanch]

You'd be surprised how many farms now where maintenance is a complete disaster even something simple as greasing does not get done sometimes at all during a harvest season. I know this because some new people I hired were shocked we actually went over the machines each morning while fuelling. Of cours one was still waiting to get paid wages from the last place last fall also.
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A lot of those machines will have wore out pieces long prior to what they should be.

But that isn't always the case.

Not necessarily just btos that believe in invisible grease. Dad bought a 9600 used with 2000 hours on it. Came from an outfit who took care of their stuff. We put 3000 hours on that machine and spent a total of $35000 on it over the 10 years we had it. Sold to another farmer who I talked to after a couple seasons and still going strong. Combine I traded up to is another story. Decent enough machine but used hard by previous owners. Had a work over before coming to my place to tune of $30000 and under 2000 hrs. Works great but still find little half assed problems I attribute to previous owners lack of maintenance. Dad and I are no mechanics but a little grease goes a long way. Always was a perception cowboys were terrible on maintenance but now they don’t have the monopoly on that.

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hi farma , I finally got back to you on the clearfied

[farmaholic]

hi farma , I finally got back to you on the clearfied

Thank you.

Excellent results!