Farm machinery recalls

[Guest]

We had a fuel leak on one of ours.

So the manufactures know there is a issue by the number of lines they replace in a year. It’s personal safety, down time, loss of the machine, insurance deductible/premium, fire department, loss of crop, just extreme danger.

Airline, auto industries it would be mandatory recall and fix it right.

Honestly a fuel line spraying fuel all over engine or engine compartment, come on,...

Our case 8010 did just that , lucky it was idling in yard

[hobbyfrmr]

Ever hear of back axle breaking off an IHC axleflow? LoL Insurance company had.

I had one break in field a couple of years ago. It was big trouble trying to get that frame off the ground to install new. I think combine world carries 5 or 6 heavier built ones per season. When I drove in to pick mine up, they were loading one for another farmers wife. That has been a known weak point since the 1480s. About 35 years.
My helper this harvest is a younger city guy. He starts asking about recalls on high dollar machinery and class action lawsuits. My response was manufacturers basically dont care. You bought, you own it. Now you're farming.
I like to tell the story about a few years ago a few farmers bought 24 John Deere combines and the delivery made the tv news . 10 days later the back tires were falling off the combines in fields adjacent to the highway on a long weekend. The post delivery work had not been done and wheel bolts worked themsevles out. The timing was practically identical on the multiple units in the field.
Somedays I get kind of unmotivated driving my shrapnel, then I park it and let it depreciate for 9 months. Then I feel better. I would go totally postal if I had a hundreds of thousands of dollars power unit sitting while waiting to pay for the mother company to drive out and program a new update. Paying big money and still being a dependant. Im just not progressive.

[sawfly1]

poor enginering is bad enough but the cheap bearing thing, is beyond beleif, or cheap chain,
20,000$rem grain vac. 1-50 chain 18 inches long,chinese junk.
would the extra 5-10$ have broke them
they all seemto find some way to screwup what would be a good product.

our only recourse we have against the bean counter that costs us 100s or 1000s $
to save them 8$ a unit.
is to point out everytime it happens.

not fixing known problems for years, you would think it was almost planned that way

[SWFarmer]

Rims breaking and it just so happens deere has 20 in Regina. 3300...neither combine is over 1300 separator hours....2 rims in the last 3 years....

Unverferth sells rims that go onto john deere combines we had one break this year and it cost about $2100 through them.