Posted on 07/28/2022 8:16:41 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
we’re working on it = It can’t be done
The green deal is all about investments and stocks they are the only winners who says wall street owns D.C..
The internet is your friend. You have to take the front left wheel off the Ford Ranger, and the oil filter is under a removable panel. Took me two minutes to find the info.
I have seven cars, and on anything I’m not super familiar with, I watch the procedure online, even if just to get refreshed. There are occasional flakes making car repair videos, but it’s usually pretty easy to strain out the BS.
John Queer.
“Ok, I have some questions. How do I charge these combines when they are 3 counties away from the shop in the middle of a cornfield, in the middle of nowhere? How do I run them 24 hours a day for 10 or 12 days straight when the harvest is ready, and the weather is coming in? How do I get a 50,000+ lb. combine that takes up the width of an entire road back to the shop 20 miles away when the battery goes dead?”
Simple. Pre-position big diesel generators out in the middle of nowhere, and have fuel trucks deliver as needed. He might need 3 or 4 battery powered harvesters to replace the old diesel harvester, but all he has to do is drive the harvester with the dead battery up to the generator, hook it up, and then take a freshly-charged harvester back out to the field.
so they make the green crap but never thought about how long it has to run to get the job done , Oh wait maybe they want the farmers to buy a dozen electric ones to replace one diesel one ,LOL
If its bigger than a skill saw or a weed whacker, it needs gasoline or a cord to power it.
Maybe John Deere is thinking about Klaus Schwab’s 500 million world population , only have to grow a small amount for the elites
Yes. On-line has been the best support. As I said, car manufacturers have tried to move into the maintenance racket. They don’t want to help you maintain your vehicle or even make it convenient to do so.
BTW, you don’t have to take off the wheel. A good right turn makes it accessible.
Last June (2021), I went to a nearby John Deere dealer to get a pair of replacement riding mower blades. It is a common riding mower.
The parts guy said John Deere was out of the replacement blades...EVERYWHERE IN AMERICA.
I then asked the Deere service department if they could sharpen the two existing ones. They had no service appointments open until August...IT WAS JUNE.
Within an hour, I found an auto shop run by Mexicans who said (through an interpreter) they could remove and sharpen the blades RIGHT NOW. I had the mower on a utility trailer. They rolled it off and did what they said they’d do while my wife and I had lunch.
We went back and got the mower. Blades sharpened. Ready to go. $30 charge.
John Deere has become a joke.
You can’t swap out the batteries from one of those massive combines like you can with your little Egos.
If you had a business that depended upon these things working for hours every day, I kinda doubt it would be a choice you would make.
Simple question…where do you charge your tractor or combine in the middle of a field? The greenies have no clue what it takes to put food on the table…even their tofu. Now in countries like Canada, the Netherlands and Ireland green dictates threaten to end farming all together. Sri Lanka has decimated their agricultural production by ending fertilizer use and Canada is rapidly moving in the same direction. The Green New Deal could easily mean famine even in major agricultural countries like Canada and the US.
There’s a farm up the road and they mix the manure water and spread it then we hope the wind doesn’t change
We can blame the customer service of John Deere for what you experienced. Then follow that back to the Unions.
Like I said..the snooty little bastards who took overt that company years ago are responsible for what will be its ultimate destruction.
BTW..those Mexicans would be able to find OEM blades for you if you need them. Tell them as long as they are honest with you, they have your business.
“Nothing runs like a Deere used to.”???
Same or similar for tanks, airplanes, most trucks, a lot of cars and so forth.
These people are fools. Can’t get any more generous than that.
I quit owning John Deere equipment when they started preventing us from working on it. I phased away from it when it got so many bells and whistles on it you had to be an instrument tech to fix it. I still have a couple of old JD tractors for sentimental value but that is it.
CaseIH serves me well.
This article details the impracticality of battery power for heavy equipment that must run 12-15 hours a day, if not 24 hours every day.
Try to explain failure to an EEO type when it comes to contractors who don’t have the depth to cover failure... fact is, most contractors don’t have the depth to cover failure. Try explaining that to some piss-ant mba who wants to “push responsibility down to the contractor” and cut out the in-house project management, engineering and inspection functions.
That 100% guarantee to fix what is broken that a contractor or supplier did just isn’t enough many times. Sure, you can replace the ratchet but can you replace all that lost production?
In some cases nobody can afford failure and so you do all you can to manage the risk of it as low as possible every day without becoming absurd.
We have been at insanity and stupidity for a long time, it is just that we have so much of it now.
My late Dad was a project engineer just like I was. He had a little desk sign triangle that had three things on it:
1. “Not a good day, be warned”
2. “Great day, sit a spell”
3. “Anything is possible for he who has not to do it”
#3 was frequent
#2 was not unusual
#1 was seldom but serious
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