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Good! A massive win for moving away from a throwaway society.
by oofta-boofta 3y ago
Good! A massive win for moving away from a throwaway society.
- DrThunder 3y agoFarm equipment != smartphone. No one is throwing away high dollar farm equipment.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoI'm pretty sure that John Deere tractors are not a throwaway item, even if the dealer is holding you hostage on a repair.
- TaylorAlexander 3y agoI suspect many of the parts on a John Deere tractor get thrown away when they could be repaired.
- redeeman 3y agoultimately you can repair an awful lot of things, so... suppose some small metal bracket holding something up has begun rusting because something scraped the paint off, or hit it, and its also a bit bent. this piece of metal costs $50 or so from the manufacturer, which admittedly is borderline theft, but what can you do?, while i have the cab off the tractor, i may aswell replace it. I could opt to strip the paint off, either by using toxic chemicals, or abrasively. But now I need to also do a little welding to fix it up, then sand it down again, degrease it, and give it a new paint job. This took me around 2-3 hours to do. Do we repair this item or chuck it in the scrap pile?