Farm Hack: worldwide community of farmers that build and modify our own tools

Re:Farm Hack: worldwide community of farmers that build and ... by knowaveragejoe on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @02:07PM (#13065413)

Is this perhaps a case of survivorship bias? Surely there are plenty of brands/models of the tractor and implements which have critical flaws exposed only over time.

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Re:Farm Hack: worldwide community of farmers that build and ... by HeyLaughingBoy on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @05:30PM (#13066783)

Yes, but not as much as you'd think. Tractors are very simple, very rugged devices built to be run all day in a punishing environment. It's not surprising that many 50+ year-old ones are still running.

Old ones are little more than engine, transmission and maybe hydraulics.

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Re:Farm Hack: worldwide community of farmers that build and ... by krivx on Thursday December 01, 2016 @05:54AM (#13078585)

Does it matter at this point? If you are shopping for used equipment and all the early fails have been filtered out already then that's a good thing.

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