We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Idea of Ownership

Re:We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Idea of Ownership by Shivetya on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @11:34AM (#9414728)

People have been doing this years with lawn mowers, both push and riding, for as long as I can remember. The complexity of work require to skirt the system increases but the reasons never really change.

If the system is so unreliable there are many other farm tractor manufacturers who can step in and likely are already exploiting the issues John Deere has.

If anything, perhaps lemon laws could be applied to farm machinery and written to be as X number of days across a calendar year. the nice thing about farming today is your likely to have online resources, places where word of this problem can travel fast enough to make a manufacture take notice

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Re:We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Idea of Ownership by betenoire on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @11:44AM (#9414814)

grew up urban, married a farmer... learned everything I know (not much) about fixing things with spit tape and wire from them.

what you say makes sense, but meanwhile Dave is still standing in his field with a useless machine and lots of work to do.

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Re:We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Idea of Ownership by HeyLaughingBoy on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @01:30PM (#9415617)

This is exactly the point. If your car is a lemon and always in the shop, at least it's trivial to get a rental, even if you're out of pocket the cash. Any number of car rental companies will drive a car out to your house or the shop where it is.

If your tractor is broken down and you need to bale that hay that's been drying in the fields today before the rain comes tomorrow and ruins it, you're screwed unless you can find a nearby farmer to help.

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Re:We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Idea of Ownership by c22 on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @07:21PM (#9417830)

Hopefully the terms of your neighbor's tractor lease don't come with a geofence!

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