Un checked capitalism. It's ruined America and made the rich very much richer. America will never be the same again. You people that voted haven't seen the crap hit the fan yet but you will.
Which is why maybe 'right to repair' should be framed as 'right to property of all constituents when buying a physical good', while prohibiting licensing restrictions on any part. Ie ownership implies right to repair, unless it's explicitly prohibited for good reason like medical devices.
They're moving that way. That's why you'll see the term 'license' on things now rather than 'purchase'. And it's why people run up the old jolly roger.
I work at a farm and my boss won’t touch a new tractor for anything. Our newest tractor is a 70’s and we have a couple from the 50’s. Planned obsolescence needs to be ended. The world is upside down…
My dad and grandpa have 1960-1970 tractors on the small farms I grew up on. We didn't exactly have the right kind of equipment to fix them, but they still managed with a sledge and a jack. I have cousins who have giant sized farms who have the new John Deere combines. It's nothing but horror stories when they break down.
@@colinmcgill2291 they claim that Deere doesn’t give access to their diagnostic software, which is untrue. It’s literally available on their website or from your dealer. There also exist multiple 3rd party options that usually cover multiple brands.
@@colinmcgill2291 in this video they claim Deere doesn’t allow access to their diagnostic software, when said software is available on their site as well as from dealers, in addition to 3rd party options.
Buying isnt owning. Piracy isnt theft. The motto of the video game industry for a decade will slowly expand to every facet of life if people dont stand up to corporations, fast.
But we can't have unattractive girls in girls' sports! And we certainly can't have children in the military getting taxpayer funded transition surgeries! By God, this is 'merica!
People *CAN'T* stand up to corporations. Big money is buying away consumer rights at a breakneck pace. That will become even worse under the next administration.
@@sarahann530yeah bro can’t find a job? just start a business! can’t find a home? just build one! can’t find food or water? make it out of thin air! how did all these homeless people, unemployed people, and starving people just never think of these simple solutions?
It's only because it's not so serious problem and all people who repair cars, agriculture machinery, smartphones, notebooks know about this situation!!! Why they doesn't say true about Ukrainian crimes of war, about real reasons of war in Ukraine, Syria, Libia, Afghanistan y much more really serious international problems?!
@@ramzeschannel5892 when you have something of substance to contribute and check back to see your comment missing, you will discover what they are attempting to conceal.
The funny thing that I've heard is Polish farmers have figured out how to bypass John Deere's software lockout and are helping American farmers how to do it as well.
I have heard that they are rewriting the firmware for these tractors to eliminate John Deere completely and make the tractor permanently serviceable with no proprietary software. I suspect that there are a few Ukrainian engineers doing this as they were the source for this software development previous to the war.
Good. Its just software anyway. Im a software engineer, and I absolutely hate seeing this trend of locking out equipment. Switching a 1 to a 0 in the computer that bricks the entire million dollar machine. Absolutely disguisting. I drive a honda civic from 2002, and there is a reason for that
I'm told there are Chinese products that actually can bypass Deere's software locks.... I'm told, but I don't completely belive it - it probably does "some" stuff, and badly. Apparently their hacker shops aren't just trying to spy on the US. Trouble is, if your in the US it's hard to get. The portals that would have sold it (e.g, eBay) don't want to be in the crosshairs and won't sell it .
@@moneymanifestation9505you’re beyond moronic you’re the reason Americans are constantly called dumb because idiots like you completely miss the point even when its right in your face and obvious as day and night
All planned out. But I want you to notice how all elite share the same religion. Notice how people who gets away with crime all share the same religion. Rev 2:9
Since America exists its a Corporation , it was never anything else . and now America is all over the world , there are rare countries that are not corporations , almost all are , what can it be in Capitalism . So legal system as part of that , is of course there to protect that system , its not sold out , legal system made it .
@@tibyron96 if you think situation in the world is the best that ever was you don't know first thing about history . And by the way saying Capitalism is like saying Computer , you did not say much . There is so much in that word that you can say whatever . And basically how you said it shows what you know about it , you don't even know you do not live in a same system you were born in , for you its all Capitalism , but today modern monetary theory is used , that is how its called , that is Helicopter money , printing press . And that right there is no Capitalism , if i print my self money and go shopping , how is that capitalism . Its not , that is why they had to change the name , they still keep it under Capitalism umbrella , but its completely different system . In Japan is military economy not Capitalism , Sony is a military company , does not make military products but it works exactly like they are Government company making shells ... they are given money , told what to do with it , what to make and so on , and that also is not capitalism , i can write a book , when you say System , that is a big word , books can be written about it , so you cant say its the best system we have for there are 10 different i can give you , they are not the same all different , all called Capitalism . So which one of those is the best that we have . Well you didn't think that deep , you didn't think beyond what you have been told . of course we had better systems , but this one is best for few people to hold all the power , for that its the best , for civilization , world , nation , its far from best we have , its the worst . If i need to paint you a picture , tell you how things were , per say compare the number of hungry by percentage , or how hard is it to own a house , almost all metrics i can find you a system where that was better . Even overall .
There is ways to fix your John Deere, or other tractors. There is a big group of indivual online who hack and use tools to self repair they tractors. I strongly recommend checking it out and learning, can save you thousands in repairs and lost income.
off the back of"""""I mean this is seriously outdated old news that's been an ongoing issue for probably 10 years or more"gosh knows how many investigative journalists have covered this story
John deere has always been a shady company. My family refuses to buy deere since the 1970s, due to a 1 month old tractor that broke and deere refused to warranty it. Massey, and Case IH is what we use Edit: talked to my 90 year uncle of what was wrong with the tractor, it was a John deere 2040, the engine developed a knock, someone from deere came to the dealership, and denied warranty because they said there was evidence he pulled too much of a load, because the paint was scuffed on the hitch and he wasn't using a JD implement.
I was about to buy a JD lawn zero turn. Luckily a farmer told me “ it’s a money pit, you might as well dig a hole and throw money into it and set it on fire”.😂
Since most people in our country worked in rice paddies, Japanese tractors like Kubota are preferred. Curious what brands are used in rice paddies in the US.
This is what gets me about people complaining about right to repair. There genuinely ARE alternatives for all these brands but people simply don't buy them. iPhones are a great example too... People believe the advertising and then complain where they realise they didn't read the fine print - on something that costs $200k. Even worse, elections can be like that sometimes too...
From a farming family this has been a issue for a while and I’m glad people are putting eyes on this because it goes into our life more than people realize
I literally feel so depressed that like literally every global company will do anything to sacrifice everybody and anything in their path just to increase their profits 10% that year
@@ckkrons2338 what’s the point if you can’t fix them yourself? It’s like telling someone how to paint a wall but when they want to paint their walls, they’re required to call a professional painter
I have a 2006 John Deere tractor. Every time I repair it I call the John Deere headquarters in Illinois and let them know I'm repairing my tractor myself I tell them just how many hours in labor it took me and how much I saved by buying the parts on the internet
The only way to stop this is to stop giving these companies business. After watching this video and other bad things I have heard about John Deere as of late, there is no way I would buy one of their products.
It's really just a proprietary technology issue. Sure there are some connected features that should be opt-in only but the big one is not being able to diagnose what is happening with your own _very expensive_ machinery. If the pretty maps from field data collection stop appearing on the dashboard oh well. If a computer is hosed and the error code is some random gibberish with no way to translate to humanese that is the issue.
Problem isn't that it's digital, it's that the corporations don't provide the tools to fix it yourself. I prefer computers, but if it's locked and I can't access it myself, that's a problem. It's mainly a right to repair issue. You should be able to buy the necessary tools, or rent them to fix it yourself.
Corporate greed. Plain and simple. This corporate greed should be illegal, namely, when there are no alternatives and the goods and services are essential.
Are you aware that corporations cannot contract with people and vice-versa. How do corporations contract with people if it's a violation of law? We are not people. We are persons. What is the legal/lawful definition of a person? See the 4th Amendment for an example.
Its human nature and always has been. large corporations or large government......... there really is no true freedom in either system because of greed.
So I’m a South African silage contactor, where do I begin with John Deere So over the last 10 years John Deere prices have more than quadrupled 4X yet my income for cutting silage has only gone up 60%. So in order to survive I had to think outside the box. Luckily for me I have the JD 7750I and 7980I cutters from John Deere and luckily they are not so full of sensors. I've learned to fix them myself, from the head, to the pro-drive transmission to the IVLOC transmission. Had I done what Deere wanted and upgraded to the 8600i Id have been bankrupt. Then with my tractors I sold all my deer’s as they were honestly steaming piles of shit constantly breaking for the same reasons, electrical faults, sensors etc. I bought second hand Valtra T171, T180, N143 Hitech tractors and have learned to also fix them myself. These are the last units that don't require EDT tools. My business is booming now because I buy my tractors and harvesters at 20% to sometimes 15% new price. Spend $10K and I've got teams that don't stand, and if they do I get them going almost immediately. Deere and all others manufacturers have become anti farmer, anti-consumer. If you want to survive stop buying new like me. Buy used and fix.
John Deere got venture capital firms (and/or investment bankers) into its C-Suite. That's why they're okay with running this into the ground. THEY won't be affected if the company goes down in flames; they'll sell off the name and the rights, the software, the hardware, and skip along to their next murder-victim-to-be with tons of money. Employees don't matter, 'long term bad practices' don't matter...they get their dime IMMEDIATELY and that's all they care about, not the dollar they'd get in five years if they weren't awful people and as cruel as is 'maximally-profitable'. We definitely need more "Right to Repair" stuff, HOPEFULLY something done from the Federal level. If nothing else, I want to KNOW, and control, whether my car is selling my kid's driving habits out to my insurance company and acting as if it is MY driving, I mean, an insurance company has already had problems from using driver data to 'dynamically adjust insurance rates'...only up, of course, never down. This was...oh, not just one of them, I only knew of Kia, but in a quick search it seems to be Hyundai AND Kia doing that. From an article on Carscoops.com, "Will owns a 2019 Hyundai Santa Fe with a Bluelink subscription. He says that a Verisk report reveals Hyundai shared his driving behavior between December 2023 and April 2024 and claims this triggered a $250 increase in his insurance premium." And this isn't even the first time a car company caught flak for selling our data, this is just the latest, and is also one that has confirming data (from Verisk Analytics) to prove it. Capitalism is great, but this unbridled and unregulated capitalism is setting us up for the next Gilded Age, but these giants of industry aren't even being philanthropic, they're just screwing anyone they can for even MORE profits, plus also MORE AND MORE money! If it's shady, a little illegal but doesn't have a strict law against it, if it might have made your grandmother slap you cross-eyed if you'd explained it all to her in full, well, it's not ILLEGAL, so that means it's legal, who cares! Corporations self-regulate as effectively as toddlers and preteens do. A few manage that, but most need authority imposed upon them from outside to make them behave.
Sad state of affairs, my family farm in Cambodia is only 10 acres and our John Deere was down for 7 months for a damn sensor, guess what we did??? We went back to using buffalos. The Deere is fixed now but is hardly used, my grandfather would rather deal with livestock to work out fields then to deal with John Deere 😂.
@@QnA22right now, the US is in no position to adopt right to repair laws since the people in charge now are very pro-corporate businesses And S.Africa cannot influence US politics. Just buy from companies/dealerships/etc that don't stuff their products with so much BS, and this in many cases means the products are already decades old.
Rotten corporate behavior. I've already paid full price for your products, I should ABSOLUTELY NOT be extorted to use them! These bad actors need to be called out and publicly shamed. Thank you for your work in doing this!
@@-elijahriggs- and so was “old” john deere, and in socialism we waited 5 years to buy a car for double the price if we were lucky to be “upper class”😀
i live in iowa and worked for john deere for two and a half years. i can tell you it was one of the worst companies i ever worked for, and that's really saying something!
What a looney comment, the fact that this farmer may not have exercised his vote. This happened long before the elections as well. Smfh 😢😢😢@tonjamarshall4842
@@toddmichael4271 Well technically he is not wrong. As while a certain group continues to protect these major companies using and abusing the government against the people. It is crazy how few bad apples can destroy so much. They are +90% of our federal government.
This is top tier journalism, and what a handsome guy at 1:41 . Thank you for making videos like these to spread awareness of right to repair to a larger audience!
Genuine question for the greatest technician that's ever lived: you mentioned in one of your long-form videos that you spent years pushing for right to repair bills and laws but eventually gave up due to the excessive lobbying and slow death of the repair industry. What is your hope for the end goal of these videos spreading awareness of right to repair for a lay audience vs. someone like you who was far more experienced, knowledgeable and convincing yet still had to throw in the towel? Thanks
@@vdpt9911 Ultimately the end goal would be for viewers to care enough about right to repair to actually reach out to their FEDERAL representative and demand a FEDERAL right to repair law. My pessimism comes from the fact that no matter how much we do as constituents, the lobbyists of the richest corporations on the planet (Big Tech) are the ones that have the final say, and repairing things will always be in direct conflict with a companies goal (sell more new things). There's a bigger problem here that involves the refusal to regulate a system that is harming 99% of people, and right to repair is only 1 of the many symptoms.
I've known about John Deere terrible business practices for a while now. I've stopped 5 farmers from buying their equipment based on my limited exposure to that brand. I've also sent them this video as proof that they made the right decision
peak monopoly stuff. we barely started to get consumer protections for being able to repair our own this year. wonder how thats gonna go in the next 4 years lol
Yup. Nothing quite like going to visit the family farm and seeing "Stay Poor Vote Dem" stickers while everyone is losing their homes because republicans let monopolies steal everything and scam everyone.
This is so true, a wake up call to all Americans about how companies are essentially buying more power. Unregulated, it will damage the country. Thank you for this video.
I'm not a fan of Apple or John Deere, but let's set the record straight-this "4:20" claim is pure misinformation. The latest Apple phones include Electrically-Released Adhesive, which can be easily detached using a low-voltage current.
It’s really not. The claim that Deere doesn’t make diagnostic soft are available is just false. They have it right there on their website. You can also use universal 3rd party options.
@@THW69 I was addressing the original commenter. Either way, I personally work in ag and know for a fact the claims I mentioned are false. You can look into JD service advisor or Jaltest if you want to verify.
Definitely your old junk is a gold compare to the new junk. Now we only buy things for temporarily not for usage. They want to control us as much as they can.
I run a truck that's more than 50 years old. It's slow but strong and my mechanic says the new ones cost about 20 times more to keep them in operation. When he told me that I said "but the new ones are a lot faster than mine". He said "they need to go fast to keep up with all those payments".
Jeez, I had no idea John Deere’s proprietary stuff was on the level of something like Tesla. I thought Tesla was in their own category of this extent of the un-repairable problem.
govt is being paid to vote against laws that would benefit the public instead of the companies that are HEAVILY lobbying there. (a-hum .... paying them).
We didn't win WW1. Once you understand that, you can see why everything has been downhill from there. Also look up who has been expelled from 100 countries. (Good rule of thumb, whatever has been "fact checked" or "proven by scientists" the opposite is true.
Need more journalism like this. Well done. I work for car manufacturer and I 100% agree with this. It’s plain simple corporate greed and lobbying. I think lobbying should be made illegal
You’d think that if you go after farmers in this country you’d be public enemy number one. Our national tradition of voting against our own interests is alive and strong.
@sand4sale697 Brilliant. You somehow both demonstrated difficulties in reading comprehension from Juan's very straightforward comment and explained your own situation. "Our" interests are consumer interests. They always have been and always will be. Corporations are the enemy and the orange man loves them almost as much as he loves himself. Vote better, king.
its crazy that companies can twist how buying their products work so you don't technically own it, but as soon as you try to get around that, you are now committing a crime. We really need laws that prevent this stuff
@@youlaughyouphill842 These corporations like to make it to where you physically can;t buy anything else, or they make it prohibitively expensive to buy anything but there brand
Sounds like a good reason for an ethical hacker to break into John Deere and take a copy of their software for distribution. It's not stealing if they won't let farmers buy it.
@@Neberheim It's software. Data being so cheap that it's free is the ethos of software development. Linux has almost total market dominance in the enterprise space. Every single major company has a IT backbone built on Linux. Linux is also free to use. Software development tools are the same as well. Everyone uses either gcc, cargo, npm, or pip. All of these are free 3D modeling? The free software, Blender is the industry standard. Want to add software to your car? You're probably going to use Linux, since that's what software developers know to develop for. Tell them that there isn't a barebones Linux kernel that compiles for that chip? You lost 90% of developers.
@@dottyjyoungI haven’t used it myself as most of the equipment on our farm is Deere so the universal software isn’t really worth it. I know some neighbors that use it since they have more variety though.
This is BEYOND disgusting! John Deere is literally the name in farming! As someone who grew up in a state that WAS 87% farmland, this is just beyond disturbing to me! I now see why farmers are selling their land to become strip malls! John deere is just shooting themselves in the foot with their monopoly. Farmers are already struggling, why would they want to make things harder on them? They should be bending over backwards to help the people who keep them in business!
Our politicians should be bending over backwards to protect something as important as our food production. Instead they bend over backwards to fight against things like right-to-repair. Then we twice elect a moron who thought it was a good idea to impose tariffs on China as a means of bringing them to heel, only to make consumer goods far more expensive here, and hurt farmers who exported to China since China responded with a 25% tariff on goods from us. If ever there was a testament to the effectiveness of propaganda, it's people in rural areas voting for republicans. Republicans have consistently put profit for the rich above all else. They defend corrupt business practices like what John Deere is doing. They hurt farmers. They hurt small businesses. They're great for the rich who are constantly siphoning money away from the public in ways that range from financial advantage to actual fraud and theft. And yet struggling farmers and small-businesses buy into the propaganda and support the very politicians who truly hurt them: republicans.
Restricting right to repair should be illegal. In Poland, there is a huge scandal right now, because train manufacturer, Newag, introduced in the train's software an instruction causing the train to break down randomly, forcing their customers to use only authorized mechanics employed by Newag. And they are trying to sue hackers who exposed them. Corporate greed makes everything worse.
I worked for a John deere dealer and this is all true and when i started there i ask questions about the right to repair, half the people there had no clue what i was talking about and the other half said " yeah but we make more money". Am the last generation of my familly farm that we had to closed because running cost was just too high and the Canadien Gorverment din't do anything about it. Still to this day i wish we still had the farm.
The irony of Macintosh being a leader in this scam is that Steve Wozniak created the Macintosh 2 to be completely open architecture so you could personalized the computer at will.
@@haroldoftherock8973 …He offered that to take customers away from Microsoft who had a stranglehold on the market with their Windows OS, then they finally got big enough and started doing exactly what they fought against…😂😂😂
Very well presented video. I’m a tractor mechanic and I deal with this shit on the daily. I hate that companies are restricting people’s right and ability to repair their equipment.
@ because there’s not many/any companies that aren’t going this route. Yes John Deere is bad for it, but they aren’t the only ones doing this. You’d struggle to find any agricultural, civil, mining, transport or automotive machinery manufacturer that aren’t doing stuff like this.
@@Browndogdiesel Yeah, the only way to stop this is to have legislation that prevents it and enforcement to oversee the legislation. Farmers can't just boycott their own tractors.
Nobody owns anything in America not even ur house you spent 20-30 years paying off ur mortgage cause you still gotta pay property tax ,electric, water if not the bank takes your house!!! That’s some bs!!!
Just because you have a deed, title saying you own land/house, you really never own it. Still gotta pay taxes each year on something you are supposed to own.
I've never been a farmer, but surrounded by many. Thank y'all for what you do & for coming forward to alert the consumers of these mass monopolies. My husb has always been a car guy, he taught our sons how to make their own repairs, he refuses now to drive what he can't repair & I fully support that. I refuse to purchase the newer washers & dryers when my regular one's have lasted over 20 yrs & are easily repairable but now the primary repair shops where we're forced to by online has made those parts "after market," prices taking a $75 part to $275.00 This is why they banned monopolies on certain businesses, but they'll fnd a way to "legally," rob us, it's a constant cat & mouse if you play their game. ⚠️Some have no choice, buyer beware!!!!
@@austinhernandez2716not all of it. Just the big boys. When I ran my company I took enough profit to pay my employee above average wage to keep him, as training was painful (I hated it). And paid myself about as well and covered overhead. I took pride in my work and always went back for any issues. I charged if it wasn’t my fault but always explained it clearly. I was purely word of mouth, so happy customers led to others. Best way to run a business honestly. I liked sleeping well at night knowing I didn’t knowingly screw someone over.
@@youngjohn5076 it's both. The reason they can get away with it is by using the tech sector rules on repairability. Under tech laws you just lease the ability to use it. Under the auto manufacturer rules we have the right to repair it. Since they've become so intertwined they can sell you the basic mechanical parts but have no requirements to sell/rent you the parts/tools needed to reprogram the computer to make that new part actually work.
A couple of years ago when I was arguing the right to repair laws with people, the main argument was "I like my phone to be as slim as possible, and right to repair influences design decisions!". It also influences your food prices, local economy and your chance to receive care at the hospital. Wish I had known this. Thanks for the great video!!
I would really hope people are smart enough to see through the "design necessitates it", argument because phones were already slim long before they had back covers and batteries that were glued down.
Remote shut down has been used to disable tractors pillaged from Ukraine. Of course that's kind of like saying "Torment Nexus is fine, they put a really bad person in it once." Point is that theoretically it could be a positive thing to have that ability for very specific cases, but in practice it's probably just Cyberpunk dystopia fuel.
The CEO makes $26 M a year thays means $13000 per hour !!! imagine if he get paid $1 million enough for him ,he wont go hungry at all ... the rest invested in our farmers who works hard to produce food for John Deer CEO, its employees and the entire iowa population.
The European Union passed the Right to Repair Directive for consumer goods this year…that’s a start. Hopefully they’ll extend this to other things too and other jurisdictions introduce similar legislation
@@AnonymousMusingThey pass these laws that protect consumers only in their territory but their companies continue with these practices in America and all over the world.
@@MarcoBonechi the free market solution is an illusion since there is no alternative than the dystopian software locked world we live in, it makes the most profit and nobody has an incentive to make it less so and if someone will they will be out of business before it becomes popular enough, or will do some other type of rugpull free markets just don't work or act too slowly to solve these systematic issues that are beneficial to companies but harmful to consumers nobody would've sold unleaded gasoline if it wasn't made mandatory by regulation, and nobody will sell a piece of very expensive equipment without modern drm bullshit until forced to do so
@@PedroGomes-wv5prYou're making no sense. Obviously, the laws apply within the territory by whose governing bodies they were established. And companies have to obey the laws of the market they operate on, so yes, European companies will do anything they're allowed to do in the US. Are you suggesting that EU should start doing the US government's job and protect American consumers too, while the US government and corporations do anything they can to fuck over literally everyone on the planet? Delusional.
I remember following Louis years ago and he was fighting for right to repair. I didn't think things would get worse. It makes a person wonder why they pay taxes because this is such a simple thing that government can fix.
@ simple. There's companies that'll shell out millions to squash any progress. Both by advertising against it or pay to elect people who will oppose it. A prime example is Donald Trump. The current administration was repealing neoliberal policies, which reduces regulation and allows company's to do whatever. Trump was funded by funded by people who want to expand stuff like no right to repair. It's honestly bullshit how fucked our politics are. Recently found out the person I thought would be better than Trump and Biden, is potentially compromised by Russia. We have the right to be heard and vote. Sadly some rich assholes try to drown it out.
@@King-Kyle People pay taxes and assume it's enough (along with plenty of other systematic issues, but I want to focus on what we have direct power on) so we get constant swing cycles making it impossible to get good, nuanced, work done. Lina Khan has shown she actually cares and can get things done. Well, she's going to be gone now..... Truthfully I haven't been paying attention to the FTC before Khan because I feel like it has been doing much. It looks like the previous chair was a Republican, Joseph Simons. After a quick search I see "Joseph Simons, who served as Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from May 2018 to January 2021, faced scrutiny over potential conflicts of interest due to his prior work in the private sector. Before his tenure at the FTC, Simons co-chaired the Antitrust Group at the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, where he represented major corporations, including Microsoft, Sony, Sharp, and Mastercard". Which might give insight to why before now nothing has really been happening, and why once Lina is out, nothing might start happening again..... Make sure when you start hearing about victories after Jan you look into who actually made those changes, not just who's in office when they publish it.
@@macmacox consider relocating to another country. This one will probably deteriorate rapidly, and lots of countries will take you if you invest that money in local businesses. Plus, most of your savings could be wiped out if you get a very serious illness.
Not every farmer is heavily subsided by "ourgovt". Tree farmers don't get paid for ie , poor markets, controled by the Mega mills, weather related crop losses, no crop insurance for us😂. Hurricane Helena has shown this Tree Farmers the govts true colors.
We had this in Germany around 2002. It was a big problem in the car industry. Politics made regulations. After it was ok. Now 20 years later we need regulations again because of new technologies.
@@lucas839many cars have different software in EU and US.I live in EU and my gf has a bmw which has oil change button in car settings that is just absent in the US.
Awesome reporting! I'm from Texas, am country at heart, and hope to farm one day. So when I saw Walmart selling John Deere sweaters I got all giddy! But I had a check in my heart for some reason not to purchase the product so I didn't. Days later, I see this.
Exactly. It's to their benefit to keep us fighting with eachother over stupid shit so they can continue to do things massively beneficial to them in the shadows. I truly believe that is the entire goal of the ridiculous political environment we're finding ourselves in. Nothing but distraction and they might even all be in it together
Corruption and greed at its finest. 5, 10, 15, 20 million a year for a CEO? How about 25-100+ million of people's hard earned dollars to buy a product that the middle class workers created. The craziest part? If they could take even more, they would.
Grandpa has an ancient Minneapolis Moline combine that he repaired every year right before harvest. He’d be sad to see this. Thx for keeping us informed.
Grandad grew up on the farm. And became an IH equipment mechanic. He even went on to teach his skills through University Extension. He would be devastated to see the industry now.
As a former Deere service tech I can say all this is 100% true they also have a f11 hidden screen that shows you what’s wrong with the tractor but won’t tell the customers how to get to it. They do PDI’s and if any of the tractors have scratch’s etc they just use cheap paint markers and paint over them and sell them, if I’m paying 250,000$ plus I don’t want scratch’s and dings fixed with a paint markers DONT BUY DEERE !
You stop buying John Deere...other companies are seeing the profits and are adopting these policies. Apple and the tech sector is the same. We won't win this by simply not buying from 1 company.
same with the tractors i look for and buy 70's -90's tractors make repairs myself and end up with dependable machines no computers for me . jd can remotely shut your new tractor down and reap the ":repair" costs . No thank you
If it weren't for the fact that replacing the transmission in our 2000 Town and Country would cost more than the van itself was worth? (And more than we could afford without taking out a loan) We'd have kept it. I still miss that dusty old thing. Although the 2013 SUV we have now is probably better for us overall.
A van from 1995 typically emits significantly more pollutants compared to a modern van. Over the past few decades, vehicle emission standards have become much stricter, leading to substantial reductions in harmful emissions from newer vehicles. Carbon Monoxide (CO): Modern vans emit about 98-99% less CO compared to vehicles from the late 1960s. Nitrogen Oxides (NOx): Emissions of NOx from modern vans are also reduced by about 98% compared to older vehicles. Hydrocarbons (HC): There has been a similar reduction in hydrocarbon emissions, which contribute to smog and ozone formation. Older vehicles, including those from 1995, contribute disproportionately to air pollution due to less efficient engines and outdated emission control technologies. This means a 1995 van could emit several times more pollutants per mile than a modern van.
Once you can't get substantially more customers in the door every quarter, you have to milk the customers you have harder. ... That's why many things keep increasing in cost, and often decreasing in quality or benefits. ... I'm thinking of health insurance here, that's one major example.
That you squeeze every penny out of some rich trust fund kids or some CEO looking to show off is one thing. They rich and stupid so pop off good on you but ripping off poor farmers who are trying to get buy and get their work done on time to feed their household that’s disgusting… Piracy my friends, never let it die… they don’t like it because game recognises game
Hate to break your illusion but any company can completely screw you when the repair is made next to impossible and there is no reliable source of spare parts available.
@@timop6340 Thats how obama screwed used cars by lower thr number years parts need to be made. Then destorying older cars, no one wanted to buy new cause they were over priced crap. On top of the fact they went from part being made for 25 years of end of prodiction line. To 15 years after the original model was made. Its much shorter.
Thanks to the team and moderator for making this excellent piece of information, which is important to all of us in all sorts of different ways, specially if you own a car.
Broke a small piece on my fridge over the summer. Company says just the one replacement will cost half the original cost of the whole fridge. The door only now just got fixed. It does not even match and they still want the insane price. America, it's time for cake!
I do handyman work...lots of rich people hire me....they've had me haul away 3 refrigerators so far in the past 2 years...they still work! (One of them had a dead mouse stuck in a cooling fan that I easily fixed). I have them stored in my shop...gonna sell them.
I'm proud to say that I work for an American equipment manufacturer and we just launched an online portal so customers can buy their own parts directly and our CS will be happy to guide you through repairs. We won't guarantee success and still prefer that you send it in to a dealer or our plant for repair, but if you want to try we will help.
I have an old Massey Furgesson tractor from the 70s. Had it ten years and it runs like a dream. Replaced the fuel line, fuel filters and ... that's it. It just keeps going. The kids call it "Otis the Tractor" Went into the toy shop to buy my foster kid a tractor so he could pretend to farm.... They were all John Deere. Shoving brands down the throats of the kids at a premium price. We got some wood and red paint and made Otis instead. Takes it every where with him. We've taught him that green tractors are bad. Whenever we're driving down the highway he points out the window and says, "Gross tractor! Yuck! Throw it in the bin!" ... He's teaching his kindy class.
I used to live half a mile away from the massey furgason factory in Trafford park Manchester in the 1970s it was great to see all those red tractors lined up outside the factory shut down about 1985 very sad
John Deere: "We basically have a near-monopoly on farm equipment in the united states.. we're raking in money faster than we can spend it... what do we do now?" Some exec: "More. MORE. MORE!!!!!!!!!!!"
John Deere lost our business in 2010 when we asked about military discounts. Every tractor company offered a simple 10% discount EXCEPT John Deere. The CEO came out and claimed they didn't support the military. I guess enough people were pissed about that and they finally caved and started giving military discounts and the CEO walked back gotta words about a year or two later. By then, myself and many others were sour on the green tractor. Went and bought New Holland (Ford) and CAT, and that was the best decision of our lives. Especially watching what John Deere has gone on to do to farmers.
We live in a crooked world ruined by corporate greed.
Un checked capitalism. It's ruined America and made the rich very much richer. America will never be the same again. You people that voted haven't seen the crap hit the fan yet but you will.
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This is a shame. I work with copiers in my job .If I have issues, I call Canon and they come out and fix it. This is so wrong
The other side of the coin is worse
Money.
having repair restrictions on medical devices is supervillain level of evil
Which is why maybe 'right to repair' should be framed as 'right to property of all constituents when buying a physical good', while prohibiting licensing restrictions on any part. Ie ownership implies right to repair, unless it's explicitly prohibited for good reason like medical devices.
To be honest, I wouldn't want basement bob to repair medical equipment......
"Where sorry Pam you took that heart transplant machine to Jim Bob and he crossed the wires so now Jerry's dead"
@@joannebarrand9509 what on earth are you even talking about?
She Didnt watch the entire video@themagnanimous1246
The word "Buy" needs to be a legally protected word.
That’s a pretty good idea
And justice. And free.
You will own nothing, you will pay to continue to own nothing, and you'll love it.
#capitalism
@@aitordotco Okay justice? How do you quantify that?
They're moving that way.
That's why you'll see the term 'license' on things now rather than 'purchase'.
And it's why people run up the old jolly roger.
This is proper journalism.
AMEN. I think President-elect needs to be informed about this-
This is not proper Journalism
@@delbutler885 how come?
@@delbutler885found the Republican’t
I work at a farm and my boss won’t touch a new tractor for anything. Our newest tractor is a 70’s and we have a couple from the 50’s. Planned obsolescence needs to be ended. The world is upside down…
Cause the dumbing down is real with you lmao
We just bought a 1990 Styer 8110 we can fix whatever breaks down on it...
Are you planning the obsolescence of planned obsolescence?
My dad and grandpa have 1960-1970 tractors on the small farms I grew up on. We didn't exactly have the right kind of equipment to fix them, but they still managed with a sledge and a jack. I have cousins who have giant sized farms who have the new John Deere combines. It's nothing but horror stories when they break down.
@@marconius101
Huh, steyr do exist in america, or did i stumble over a fellow European
$250 billion fine is in order. Boycott John Deere.
No reason to. Basically All the stuff they say about Deere is completely false.
Can you site your resources, are there FTC studies or other resource that validates that claim?
@Beyonder8335 how so?
@@colinmcgill2291 they claim that Deere doesn’t give access to their diagnostic software, which is untrue. It’s literally available on their website or from your dealer. There also exist multiple 3rd party options that usually cover multiple brands.
@@colinmcgill2291 in this video they claim Deere doesn’t allow access to their diagnostic software, when said software is available on their site as well as from dealers, in addition to 3rd party options.
Buying isnt owning. Piracy isnt theft. The motto of the video game industry for a decade will slowly expand to every facet of life if people dont stand up to corporations, fast.
Sadly a GOP admin isn't likely to help with that.
But we can't have unattractive girls in girls' sports! And we certainly can't have children in the military getting taxpayer funded transition surgeries! By God, this is 'merica!
People *CAN'T* stand up to corporations. Big money is buying away consumer rights at a breakneck pace. That will become even worse under the next administration.
Nobody's gonna help with that if we don't start speaking up about it .
the Democrats or the GOP
@@ginas9246 Because the last four years have been going well for that?
Louise Rossman mentioned. Bless the man taking an actual fight for the citizens right to repair all the way up to the federal level.
And this, my friends, is how money moves from the poor to the billionaires.
The poor should make their own Tractors
@@sarahann530 with what money?
@@Pepe-zd1kb They make the tractor and sell it to other poor people and then make another .
That's how John Deere started .
@@sarahann530yeah bro can’t find a job? just start a business!
can’t find a home? just build one!
can’t find food or water? make it out of thin air! how did all these homeless people, unemployed people, and starving people just never think of these simple solutions?
Trump is a master at it
Right to Repair needs to be standard in every industry. Otherwise, they're holding consumers hostage.
Extortionary RICO Rackets courtesy of Two Party Pinnochio Politicians!
The flip side is the right to incorrectly mess up said repair. Its not all evil and all. Maybe slightly unfair but not unspeakable
@@ssj2camaro21you are a schill.
@@ssj2camaro21 Stupid Stupid Stupid. No more excuses. There is nothing positive about making a product engineered to be impossible to diagnose.
@@ssj2camaro21 oh yeah please do not allow me, a professional it guy, to swap out a phone battery, i could accidently put in a neutron star
nice to see real journalism still exists
I guarantee you, 75% of comments supporting your claim are missing.
@@pixels303at-odysee9it ain’t a claim buddy.
@Worldwar1944 you miss my point. One word: censorship.
Any questions?
It's only because it's not so serious problem and all people who repair cars, agriculture machinery, smartphones, notebooks know about this situation!!! Why they doesn't say true about Ukrainian crimes of war, about real reasons of war in Ukraine, Syria, Libia, Afghanistan y much more really serious international problems?!
@@ramzeschannel5892 when you have something of substance to contribute and check back to see your comment missing, you will discover what they are attempting to conceal.
This is more diabolical than BMW and their "subscription" heated seats.....
The funny thing that I've heard is Polish farmers have figured out how to bypass John Deere's software lockout and are helping American farmers how to do it as well.
I have heard that they are rewriting the firmware for these tractors to eliminate John Deere completely and make the tractor permanently serviceable with no proprietary software. I suspect that there are a few Ukrainian engineers doing this as they were the source for this software development previous to the war.
Good. Its just software anyway. Im a software engineer, and I absolutely hate seeing this trend of locking out equipment. Switching a 1 to a 0 in the computer that bricks the entire million dollar machine. Absolutely disguisting.
I drive a honda civic from 2002, and there is a reason for that
I still drive my 2001 truck and it's rusting out from under me. I absolutely dread buying anything newer!
I'm told there are Chinese products that actually can bypass Deere's software locks.... I'm told, but I don't completely belive it - it probably does "some" stuff, and badly. Apparently their hacker shops aren't just trying to spy on the US. Trouble is, if your in the US it's hard to get. The portals that would have sold it (e.g, eBay) don't want to be in the crosshairs and won't sell it .
this brought a smile to me. A big middle finger to these greedy companies. They collude to keep this status quo and it must be stopped
This is journalism at its best , kudos to the young lady reporting on this criminal behaviour.
Absolutely 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💯💯💯💯
😂not having 24/7 customer service for millionaires 😂you're joking right.
@@moneymanifestation9505you’re beyond moronic you’re the reason Americans are constantly called dumb because idiots like you completely miss the point even when its right in your face and obvious as day and night
Garbage article
Let's hope she doesn't suddenly disappear.
Our legal system sold out to corporations a long time ago, and it just keeps getting worse.
All planned out. But I want you to notice how all elite share the same religion. Notice how people who gets away with crime all share the same religion. Rev 2:9
Since America exists its a Corporation , it was never anything else . and now America is all over the world , there are rare countries that are not corporations , almost all are , what can it be in Capitalism . So legal system as part of that , is of course there to protect that system , its not sold out , legal system made it .
The real checks and balances are between Banks, Businesses and the Military.
Its the problem with capitalism by no means is it a perfect system but compared to all the others humanity has tried capitalism has been the best
@@tibyron96 if you think situation in the world is the best that ever was you don't know first thing about history . And by the way saying Capitalism is like saying Computer , you did not say much . There is so much in that word that you can say whatever . And basically how you said it shows what you know about it , you don't even know you do not live in a same system you were born in , for you its all Capitalism , but today modern monetary theory is used , that is how its called , that is Helicopter money , printing press . And that right there is no Capitalism , if i print my self money and go shopping , how is that capitalism . Its not , that is why they had to change the name , they still keep it under Capitalism umbrella , but its completely different system . In Japan is military economy not Capitalism , Sony is a military company , does not make military products but it works exactly like they are Government company making shells ... they are given money , told what to do with it , what to make and so on , and that also is not capitalism , i can write a book , when you say System , that is a big word , books can be written about it , so you cant say its the best system we have for there are 10 different i can give you , they are not the same all different , all called Capitalism . So which one of those is the best that we have . Well you didn't think that deep , you didn't think beyond what you have been told .
of course we had better systems , but this one is best for few people to hold all the power , for that its the best , for civilization , world , nation , its far from best we have , its the worst . If i need to paint you a picture , tell you how things were , per say compare the number of hungry by percentage , or how hard is it to own a house , almost all metrics i can find you a system where that was better . Even overall .
What an enlightening and world class example of good journalism. Very factually informative and educational.
I literally had this happen this year. 80 acres of hay got ruined and then cost $5000 to fix tractor.
There is ways to fix your John Deere, or other tractors. There is a big group of indivual online who hack and use tools to self repair they tractors. I strongly recommend checking it out and learning, can save you thousands in repairs and lost income.
What DTCs popped up? I'm curious because I have yet to meet a problem on a Deere machine that did not have DTC that described the issue.
All i see now is case and new Holland.
No one made you buy an expensive tractor you can't fix yourself.
@@ZaraThustra-w2nyour a piece of work kicking someone because someone else stole from them and cost the a crop
This is by far some of the best journalism I've ever seen
Agreed
off the back of"""""I mean this is seriously outdated old news that's been an ongoing issue for probably 10 years or more"gosh knows how many investigative journalists have covered this story
@@egg7169 Yep. Top notch.
Look harder.
@@keithboultonSuggestions?
John deere has always been a shady company. My family refuses to buy deere since the 1970s, due to a 1 month old tractor that broke and deere refused to warranty it. Massey, and Case IH is what we use
Edit: talked to my 90 year uncle of what was wrong with the tractor, it was a John deere 2040, the engine developed a knock, someone from deere came to the dealership, and denied warranty because they said there was evidence he pulled too much of a load, because the paint was scuffed on the hitch and he wasn't using a JD implement.
probably one of the best decisions of his life in retrospective.
I was about to buy a JD lawn zero turn. Luckily a farmer told me “ it’s a money pit, you might as well dig a hole and throw money into it and set it on fire”.😂
Since most people in our country worked in rice paddies, Japanese tractors like Kubota are preferred. Curious what brands are used in rice paddies in the US.
Please tell me how John Deere has been shady? Don't the buyers know what they are buying when they buy them?
This is what gets me about people complaining about right to repair. There genuinely ARE alternatives for all these brands but people simply don't buy them. iPhones are a great example too... People believe the advertising and then complain where they realise they didn't read the fine print - on something that costs $200k.
Even worse, elections can be like that sometimes too...
From a farming family this has been a issue for a while and I’m glad people are putting eyes on this because it goes into our life more than people realize
The greed of these companies makes me sick
I literally feel so depressed that like literally every global company will do anything to sacrifice everybody and anything in their path just to increase their profits 10% that year
And I say you don't need it don't buy it let it Go forget about it
And don't get ripped off
@@kirkslayden834I’m no expert, but I think farmers do indeed need tractors.
@@DavidVandemark He probably meant Boycotting products from companies like these but worded it a bit weird
But Americans voted for this
That's why I love 90's cars. Just modern enough to be comfortable.
Old enough to fix easily...
My 96 Honda LX 5spd will never die.
80's
@thefinalroman 80's cars are garbage.
1996-2011 cars are the best.
I think any vehicle built before alternator charging systems would be the best bet.
@@boogitybear2283 I would have to agree with that.👍
This is some of the best journalism I’ve seen in the past decade
Except they missed the fact Deere puts the codes on the machine and sells the tech manuals to customers.
We’re going to see more going forward now that daddy’s home.
@@ckkrons2338Thank-you! Finally someone who knows the truth!
2:32 it pops up on the display! Even tells you what to check!
@@ckkrons2338 what’s the point if you can’t fix them yourself? It’s like telling someone how to paint a wall but when they want to paint their walls, they’re required to call a professional painter
i bet john deere ceo is next on the list🤔
My dad is an old farmer since the 70’s he’s retired now but makes good money keeping old tractors running for neighbours.
I have a 2006 John Deere tractor. Every time I repair it I call the John Deere headquarters in Illinois and let them know I'm repairing my tractor myself I tell them just how many hours in labor it took me and how much I saved by buying the parts on the internet
The only way to stop this is to stop giving these companies business. After watching this video and other bad things I have heard about John Deere as of late, there is no way I would buy one of their products.
Nice, they're not making money AND you're costing them for calling in xD
You are my hero
Do they ever reply to you?
Should of also given them an invoice 😅
😂
This is why I am against everything being replaced by digital crap.
They can freeze us in our tracks with a click of a button.
It's really just a proprietary technology issue. Sure there are some connected features that should be opt-in only but the big one is not being able to diagnose what is happening with your own _very expensive_ machinery. If the pretty maps from field data collection stop appearing on the dashboard oh well. If a computer is hosed and the error code is some random gibberish with no way to translate to humanese that is the issue.
Problem isn't that it's digital, it's that the corporations don't provide the tools to fix it yourself. I prefer computers, but if it's locked and I can't access it myself, that's a problem. It's mainly a right to repair issue. You should be able to buy the necessary tools, or rent them to fix it yourself.
It’s the same with cars,made so DIY Carn t fix it.held to ransom.
Yeah, have fun in self-driving cars where you can just be stopped by someone outside your car!
@@Shikaz00 Get into reverse-engineering for software. It's universal on a lot of standards like AGL (Automotive Grade Linux).
Hats off to your team for bringing this up !
Corporate greed. Plain and simple. This corporate greed should be illegal, namely, when there are no alternatives and the goods and services are essential.
Are you aware that corporations cannot contract with people and vice-versa. How do corporations contract with people if it's a violation of law? We are not people. We are persons. What is the legal/lawful definition of a person? See the 4th Amendment for an example.
where will that line drawn...before food and medicine I hope
Its human nature and always has been. large corporations or large government......... there really is no true freedom in either system because of greed.
Corporate greed pushed by big shareholders... like the three bastards....
This will continue to go on until we all rise up. We all need to unite and force a change to happen.
Big respect to all involved in the making of this video. Top tier journalism.
Agreed
So I’m a South African silage contactor, where do I begin with John Deere
So over the last 10 years John Deere prices have more than quadrupled 4X yet my income for cutting silage has only gone up 60%. So in order to survive I had to think outside the box. Luckily for me I have the JD 7750I and 7980I cutters from John Deere and luckily they are not so full of sensors. I've learned to fix them myself, from the head, to the pro-drive transmission to the IVLOC transmission. Had I done what Deere wanted and upgraded to the 8600i Id have been bankrupt.
Then with my tractors I sold all my deer’s as they were honestly steaming piles of shit constantly breaking for the same reasons, electrical faults, sensors etc.
I bought second hand Valtra T171, T180, N143 Hitech tractors and have learned to also fix them myself.
These are the last units that don't require EDT tools.
My business is booming now because I buy my tractors and harvesters at 20% to sometimes 15% new price. Spend $10K and I've got teams that don't stand, and if they do I get them going almost immediately.
Deere and all others manufacturers have become anti farmer, anti-consumer.
If you want to survive stop buying new like me. Buy used and fix.
John Deere got venture capital firms (and/or investment bankers) into its C-Suite. That's why they're okay with running this into the ground. THEY won't be affected if the company goes down in flames; they'll sell off the name and the rights, the software, the hardware, and skip along to their next murder-victim-to-be with tons of money. Employees don't matter, 'long term bad practices' don't matter...they get their dime IMMEDIATELY and that's all they care about, not the dollar they'd get in five years if they weren't awful people and as cruel as is 'maximally-profitable'.
We definitely need more "Right to Repair" stuff, HOPEFULLY something done from the Federal level. If nothing else, I want to KNOW, and control, whether my car is selling my kid's driving habits out to my insurance company and acting as if it is MY driving, I mean, an insurance company has already had problems from using driver data to 'dynamically adjust insurance rates'...only up, of course, never down. This was...oh, not just one of them, I only knew of Kia, but in a quick search it seems to be Hyundai AND Kia doing that.
From an article on Carscoops.com, "Will owns a 2019 Hyundai Santa Fe with a Bluelink subscription. He says that a Verisk report reveals Hyundai shared his driving behavior between December 2023 and April 2024 and claims this triggered a $250 increase in his insurance premium." And this isn't even the first time a car company caught flak for selling our data, this is just the latest, and is also one that has confirming data (from Verisk Analytics) to prove it. Capitalism is great, but this unbridled and unregulated capitalism is setting us up for the next Gilded Age, but these giants of industry aren't even being philanthropic, they're just screwing anyone they can for even MORE profits, plus also MORE AND MORE money! If it's shady, a little illegal but doesn't have a strict law against it, if it might have made your grandmother slap you cross-eyed if you'd explained it all to her in full, well, it's not ILLEGAL, so that means it's legal, who cares!
Corporations self-regulate as effectively as toddlers and preteens do. A few manage that, but most need authority imposed upon them from outside to make them behave.
Or, like in Europe, demand the right to repair.
Sad state of affairs, my family farm in Cambodia is only 10 acres and our John Deere was down for 7 months for a damn sensor, guess what we did??? We went back to using buffalos. The Deere is fixed now but is hardly used, my grandfather would rather deal with livestock to work out fields then to deal with John Deere 😂.
100% agree
@@QnA22right now, the US is in no position to adopt right to repair laws since the people in charge now are very pro-corporate businesses
And S.Africa cannot influence US politics.
Just buy from companies/dealerships/etc that don't stuff their products with so much BS, and this in many cases means the products are already decades old.
Rotten corporate behavior. I've already paid full price for your products, I should ABSOLUTELY NOT be extorted to use them!
These bad actors need to be called out and publicly shamed. Thank you for your work in doing this!
JD is shown to be selling the shell, not the product. Without the software, the shell is just a lump of iron.
The breakdown of moral and ethical standards has brought us this.
Yea right on Brother.John Deere used to be the Bedrock of a Trusted Quality Product for Farmers.Not any more.
This is capitalism
@@-elijahriggs- and so was “old” john deere, and in socialism we waited 5 years to buy a car for double the price if we were lucky to be “upper class”😀
I bet it's a blackrock company 🤔
Third world people wear off on everyone....
i live in iowa and worked for john deere for two and a half years. i can tell you it was one of the worst companies i ever worked for, and that's really saying something!
There are many others with the same playbook...
A very close friend worked for JD & quit for this same reason & went back to being a independent mechanic & farm foreman 💯
Was someone holding a gun to your head making you stay?
@@10-4-q6i well i don't work there anymore so probably not, right? everyone besides you seems to have understood that
@@10-4-q6i ssshhhhh.
Another example of billionaires and CEO's paying politicians to have the right to screw us..
It's getting old.
They will continue doing it until we force them to stop.
This is what people voted for.
What a looney comment, the fact that this farmer may not have exercised his vote. This happened long before the elections as well. Smfh 😢😢😢@tonjamarshall4842
@@tonjamarshall4842no it’s not.
@@toddmichael4271 Well technically he is not wrong. As while a certain group continues to protect these major companies using and abusing the government against the people. It is crazy how few bad apples can destroy so much. They are +90% of our federal government.
Fantastic piece of journalism. Thank you.
This is top tier journalism, and what a handsome guy at 1:41 . Thank you for making videos like these to spread awareness of right to repair to a larger audience!
Genuine question for the greatest technician that's ever lived: you mentioned in one of your long-form videos that you spent years pushing for right to repair bills and laws but eventually gave up due to the excessive lobbying and slow death of the repair industry. What is your hope for the end goal of these videos spreading awareness of right to repair for a lay audience vs. someone like you who was far more experienced, knowledgeable and convincing yet still had to throw in the towel? Thanks
@@vdpt9911 Ultimately the end goal would be for viewers to care enough about right to repair to actually reach out to their FEDERAL representative and demand a FEDERAL right to repair law. My pessimism comes from the fact that no matter how much we do as constituents, the lobbyists of the richest corporations on the planet (Big Tech) are the ones that have the final say, and repairing things will always be in direct conflict with a companies goal (sell more new things). There's a bigger problem here that involves the refusal to regulate a system that is harming 99% of people, and right to repair is only 1 of the many symptoms.
Rotten tomatoes and apples anyone, brought you by John Deere.
Guy at 1:41 has hands like raccoon 🦝
Nice to see the tiny racoon hand technician here. LOVE UR VIDEOS.
I've known about John Deere terrible business practices for a while now. I've stopped 5 farmers from buying their equipment based on my limited exposure to that brand. I've also sent them this video as proof that they made the right decision
peak monopoly stuff.
we barely started to get consumer protections for being able to repair our own this year. wonder how thats gonna go in the next 4 years lol
Yup. Nothing quite like going to visit the family farm and seeing "Stay Poor Vote Dem" stickers while everyone is losing their homes because republicans let monopolies steal everything and scam everyone.
We ain't seen nothing yet...
🤑🤢🤮🤒🤕😵 Something like that. I assume...
@@AnthonyRossJr1701 Wireless body area network
Probably NOT great...
But at least their machines come with a sweet, green hat.
Edit: excellent reporting, by the way.
This is so true, a wake up call to all Americans about how companies are essentially buying more power. Unregulated, it will damage the country. Thank you for this video.
True? Deere sells tech manuals to customers, they missed that fact.
@ckkrons2338 And yet they are making profits through the roof. Yeah, you're right, tech manuals save the day. 🙄
@ the crux of the message was they restrict repair, which isn’t true if you ask most farmers
@@ckkrons2338 So why do some farmers use older equipment? If they could repair the new equipment as easily, why are they complaining?
@@slickmet same reason I drive older cars, less emissions and tech so is easier to fix yourself.
This is such a great piece of journalism. Well done.
I'm not a fan of Apple or John Deere, but let's set the record straight-this "4:20" claim is pure misinformation. The latest Apple phones include Electrically-Released Adhesive, which can be easily detached using a low-voltage current.
It’s really not. The claim that Deere doesn’t make diagnostic soft are available is just false. They have it right there on their website. You can also use universal 3rd party options.
@@Beyonder8335 I only meant to address the issue of glued-in batteries, but I fully agree with everything else.
@@THW69 I was addressing the original commenter. Either way, I personally work in ag and know for a fact the claims I mentioned are false. You can look into JD service advisor or Jaltest if you want to verify.
@Beyonder8335 Something don’t feel right about you……You work for John Deere.
People wonder why I waste my time fixing my old junk.
Definitely your old junk is a gold compare to the new junk. Now we only buy things for temporarily not for usage. They want to control us as much as they can.
Way better than the new chinese or mexican imported crap thats coming. Sold at a ridiculous price too.
i dont
Note: don't buy anything major that was made during the pandemic.
A lot of that stuff has major recalls.
I run a truck that's more than 50 years old. It's slow but strong and my mechanic says the new ones cost about 20 times more to keep them in operation. When he told me that I said "but the new ones are a lot faster than mine". He said "they need to go fast to keep up with all those payments".
Jeez, I had no idea John Deere’s proprietary stuff was on the level of something like Tesla. I thought Tesla was in their own category of this extent of the un-repairable problem.
govt should be dealing with things like this instead of what bathrooms we can use.
govt is being paid to vote against laws that would benefit the public instead of the companies that are HEAVILY lobbying there. (a-hum .... paying them).
yall know “the govment” does multiple things at once
We didn't win WW1. Once you understand that, you can see why everything has been downhill from there. Also look up who has been expelled from 100 countries. (Good rule of thumb, whatever has been "fact checked" or "proven by scientists" the opposite is true.
@@sachadee.6104 government doesn't vote .. you do
@@Bloodnickel1they do indeed suck at multiple things across the board simultaneously 😂
Need more journalism like this. Well done. I work for car manufacturer and I 100% agree with this. It’s plain simple corporate greed and lobbying. I think lobbying should be made illegal
The more I learn about John Deere, the more I'm disgusted
You’d think that if you go after farmers in this country you’d be public enemy number one.
Our national tradition of voting against our own interests is alive and strong.
I don't know what you mean by "Our" ? Smart people don't vote against their best interests.
@sand4sale697 Brilliant. You somehow both demonstrated difficulties in reading comprehension from Juan's very straightforward comment and explained your own situation. "Our" interests are consumer interests. They always have been and always will be. Corporations are the enemy and the orange man loves them almost as much as he loves himself. Vote better, king.
@@washyourhandswhy hasn't Brandon fixed it yet?
@@seth1704 didnt you just see the video that showed that "Brandon" has been breaking up these monopolies across the board.
@@washyourhands 😭😭😭😭😭
Part of the joy of owning a machine is the freedom to maintain and repair that machine.
Yep, I appreciate having car bros for advice and repair. It shares basic knowledge of maintentance
its crazy that companies can twist how buying their products work so you don't technically own it, but as soon as you try to get around that, you are now committing a crime. We really need laws that prevent this stuff
Or you can just stop buying john deere, which everyone knows has always had a reputation for awfull practices
@@youlaughyouphill842 These corporations like to make it to where you physically can;t buy anything else, or they make it prohibitively expensive to buy anything but there brand
Absolutely!!! The right to repair should be global... companies like Apple, Audi, Deere, Harley Davidson etc are just greedy monsters
“You will own nothing and be happy” is more real than ever
Be happy 😅
"Eet ze bugz!"
You have been warned!
When you check the date on the calendar and see it's almost 1984 again.
(that's a reference to the book, not the actual year in our universe)
@ 1984, the calendar year, was pretty awesome.
Sounds like a good reason for an ethical hacker to break into John Deere and take a copy of their software for distribution. It's not stealing if they won't let farmers buy it.
That last sentence doesn’t make sense. If you won’t let me buy your car, it’s definitely stealing if I take it. Can you expand on your logic?
They do sell it. You can go buy it off their site right now, or use a 3rd party software like Jaltest.
@@Neberheim
It's software. Data being so cheap that it's free is the ethos of software development.
Linux has almost total market dominance in the enterprise space. Every single major company has a IT backbone built on Linux. Linux is also free to use.
Software development tools are the same as well. Everyone uses either gcc, cargo, npm, or pip. All of these are free
3D modeling? The free software, Blender is the industry standard.
Want to add software to your car? You're probably going to use Linux, since that's what software developers know to develop for. Tell them that there isn't a barebones Linux kernel that compiles for that chip? You lost 90% of developers.
@@Beyonder8335 I'm looking at the Jaltest website, & would love to know about your experience with it.
@@dottyjyoungI haven’t used it myself as most of the equipment on our farm is Deere so the universal software isn’t really worth it. I know some neighbors that use it since they have more variety though.
This is BEYOND disgusting! John Deere is literally the name in farming! As someone who grew up in a state that WAS 87% farmland, this is just beyond disturbing to me! I now see why farmers are selling their land to become strip malls! John deere is just shooting themselves in the foot with their monopoly. Farmers are already struggling, why would they want to make things harder on them? They should be bending over backwards to help the people who keep them in business!
Our politicians should be bending over backwards to protect something as important as our food production. Instead they bend over backwards to fight against things like right-to-repair. Then we twice elect a moron who thought it was a good idea to impose tariffs on China as a means of bringing them to heel, only to make consumer goods far more expensive here, and hurt farmers who exported to China since China responded with a 25% tariff on goods from us.
If ever there was a testament to the effectiveness of propaganda, it's people in rural areas voting for republicans. Republicans have consistently put profit for the rich above all else. They defend corrupt business practices like what John Deere is doing. They hurt farmers. They hurt small businesses. They're great for the rich who are constantly siphoning money away from the public in ways that range from financial advantage to actual fraud and theft. And yet struggling farmers and small-businesses buy into the propaganda and support the very politicians who truly hurt them: republicans.
I work for a JD dealership and hate this. We have a pre-computer JD tractor we bought.
one correction: john deere is not shooting itself in the foot AT ALL, they are simply shooting their paying customers in the dominant hand.
Restricting right to repair should be illegal. In Poland, there is a huge scandal right now, because train manufacturer, Newag, introduced in the train's software an instruction causing the train to break down randomly, forcing their customers to use only authorized mechanics employed by Newag. And they are trying to sue hackers who exposed them. Corporate greed makes everything worse.
Wow I want to known more about that
I worked for a John deere dealer and this is all true and when i started there i ask questions about the right to repair, half the people there had no clue what i was talking about and the other half said " yeah but we make more money". Am the last generation of my familly farm that we had to closed because running cost was just too high and the Canadien Gorverment din't do anything about it. Still to this day i wish we still had the farm.
Sad.
THAT was seriously badass REPORTING! Good job guys & gals!
The irony of Macintosh being a leader in this scam is that Steve Wozniak created the Macintosh 2 to be completely open architecture so you could personalized the computer at will.
You all know it but you fear to say it, the mfin steve f jobs😅 marketing genius 🙄🤣
@@haroldoftherock8973 …He offered that to take customers away from Microsoft who had a stranglehold on the market with their Windows OS, then they finally got big enough and started doing exactly what they fought against…😂😂😂
I cannot be the only person thinking, there's the downside of digital technology 😮
Very well presented video. I’m a tractor mechanic and I deal with this shit on the daily. I hate that companies are restricting people’s right and ability to repair their equipment.
Why not you people Boycott these shitty companies & give them lessons
@ because there’s not many/any companies that aren’t going this route.
Yes John Deere is bad for it, but they aren’t the only ones doing this.
You’d struggle to find any agricultural, civil, mining, transport or automotive machinery manufacturer that aren’t doing stuff like this.
@@Browndogdiesel Yeah, the only way to stop this is to have legislation that prevents it and enforcement to oversee the legislation. Farmers can't just boycott their own tractors.
This is truly the most impactful and meaningful content I’ve come across in the year 2024. Thank you for making this kind of video.
So, I still have to pay taxes on property that I don't own?
In every facet of life, the expenses are ours and the benefit of ownership is the oligarchs. We get to use it, sometimes.
Worse, you are paying taxes so farmers get subsidies and they pay that to John Deere and others.
Never pay taxes on something you don't own. Otherwise you'll wind up paying taxes on a toaster someone else bought in Myanmar.
Nobody owns anything in America not even ur house you spent 20-30 years paying off ur mortgage cause you still gotta pay property tax ,electric, water if not the bank takes your house!!! That’s some bs!!!
Just because you have a deed, title saying you own land/house, you really never own it. Still gotta pay taxes each year on something you are supposed to own.
Americans are done with this shit from the "Ruling Class".
I've never been a farmer, but surrounded by many. Thank y'all for what you do & for coming forward to alert the consumers of these mass monopolies. My husb has always been a car guy, he taught our sons how to make their own repairs, he refuses now to drive what he can't repair & I fully support that. I refuse to purchase the newer washers & dryers when my regular one's have lasted over 20 yrs & are easily repairable but now the primary repair shops where we're forced to by online has made those parts "after market," prices taking a $75 part to $275.00 This is why they banned monopolies on certain businesses, but they'll fnd a way to "legally," rob us, it's a constant cat & mouse if you play their game. ⚠️Some have no choice, buyer beware!!!!
"You will own nothing and you will be happy" Sounds familiar
Weimar problems require Weimar solutions
That's the ultimate goal of capitalism.
Infinite growth with finite resources
@@austinhernandez2716 Nope. That's the ultimate goal of COMMUNISM.
@@austinhernandez2716not all of it. Just the big boys. When I ran my company I took enough profit to pay my employee above average wage to keep him, as training was painful (I hated it). And paid myself about as well and covered overhead. I took pride in my work and always went back for any issues. I charged if it wasn’t my fault but always explained it clearly. I was purely word of mouth, so happy customers led to others. Best way to run a business honestly. I liked sleeping well at night knowing I didn’t knowingly screw someone over.
Tech bros are literally destroying every single sector.
It isnt the tech. It is the greedy ceo .
billionaires and private equity
@@youngjohn5076 it's both. The reason they can get away with it is by using the tech sector rules on repairability. Under tech laws you just lease the ability to use it. Under the auto manufacturer rules we have the right to repair it. Since they've become so intertwined they can sell you the basic mechanical parts but have no requirements to sell/rent you the parts/tools needed to reprogram the computer to make that new part actually work.
Amen
Move fast and break things!
I had no clue of the extent of this issue. Thanks for informing us!
This is anti-customer, anti-competition, and anti-private property.
Bruh this is capitalism. Nothing more
@@chromesucks5299 just figured that out? Lol
ruclips.net/video/BVCOiw1Ekxs/видео.html
BUT it AIN'T ILLEGAL.
Farmers on what land 40 acres and a mule oh Land pass down from slavery wealth? They deserve to go in debt
A couple of years ago when I was arguing the right to repair laws with people, the main argument was "I like my phone to be as slim as possible, and right to repair influences design decisions!". It also influences your food prices, local economy and your chance to receive care at the hospital.
Wish I had known this. Thanks for the great video!!
I would really hope people are smart enough to see through the "design necessitates it", argument because phones were already slim long before they had back covers and batteries that were glued down.
When John Deere needs money they remotely shut down tractors.
BINGO
@@commonsense3921buy old school know corporate AI plow farmers bank accounts
Remote shut down has been used to disable tractors pillaged from Ukraine. Of course that's kind of like saying "Torment Nexus is fine, they put a really bad person in it once."
Point is that theoretically it could be a positive thing to have that ability for very specific cases, but in practice it's probably just Cyberpunk dystopia fuel.
wants*
The CEO makes $26 M a year thays means $13000 per hour !!! imagine if he get paid $1 million enough for him ,he wont go hungry at all ... the rest invested in our farmers who works hard to produce food for John Deer CEO, its employees and the entire iowa population.
It's so refreshing to watch real journalism at work.
The European Union passed the Right to Repair Directive for consumer goods this year…that’s a start. Hopefully they’ll extend this to other things too and other jurisdictions introduce similar legislation
Europe is so far ahead of us in protecting consumers.
@@AnonymousMusingThey pass these laws that protect consumers only in their territory but their companies continue with these practices in America and all over the world.
The free market solution is to buy from someone else ... But if they put tariffs that won't work as well.
@@MarcoBonechi the free market solution is an illusion since there is no alternative than the dystopian software locked world we live in, it makes the most profit and nobody has an incentive to make it less so
and if someone will they will be out of business before it becomes popular enough, or will do some other type of rugpull
free markets just don't work or act too slowly to solve these systematic issues that are beneficial to companies but harmful to consumers
nobody would've sold unleaded gasoline if it wasn't made mandatory by regulation, and nobody will sell a piece of very expensive equipment without modern drm bullshit until forced to do so
@@PedroGomes-wv5prYou're making no sense. Obviously, the laws apply within the territory by whose governing bodies they were established. And companies have to obey the laws of the market they operate on, so yes, European companies will do anything they're allowed to do in the US. Are you suggesting that EU should start doing the US government's job and protect American consumers too, while the US government and corporations do anything they can to fuck over literally everyone on the planet? Delusional.
Lina Khan will be missed. 😢
Seriously mourned this fact after the election
The only one helping us....
She is a national treasure.
She would have helped these asshats. But nah they voted for an orange conman and even against tester, who is a farmer just like these clowns.
Very good video
Seeing Louis Rossman and Andy from Salemtechsperts pop up on the montage. Must make either man feel good their message for right to repair.
I was coming to say this.
I remember following Louis years ago and he was fighting for right to repair. I didn't think things would get worse. It makes a person wonder why they pay taxes because this is such a simple thing that government can fix.
@ simple. There's companies that'll shell out millions to squash any progress. Both by advertising against it or pay to elect people who will oppose it. A prime example is Donald Trump. The current administration was repealing neoliberal policies, which reduces regulation and allows company's to do whatever. Trump was funded by funded by people who want to expand stuff like no right to repair. It's honestly bullshit how fucked our politics are. Recently found out the person I thought would be better than Trump and Biden, is potentially compromised by Russia. We have the right to be heard and vote. Sadly some rich assholes try to drown it out.
@@King-Kyle it's also a simple thing for large companies to take a really, really small part of their revenue to pay politicians to not fix it.
@@King-Kyle People pay taxes and assume it's enough (along with plenty of other systematic issues, but I want to focus on what we have direct power on) so we get constant swing cycles making it impossible to get good, nuanced, work done. Lina Khan has shown she actually cares and can get things done. Well, she's going to be gone now.....
Truthfully I haven't been paying attention to the FTC before Khan because I feel like it has been doing much. It looks like the previous chair was a Republican, Joseph Simons. After a quick search I see "Joseph Simons, who served as Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from May 2018 to January 2021, faced scrutiny over potential conflicts of interest due to his prior work in the private sector. Before his tenure at the FTC, Simons co-chaired the Antitrust Group at the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, where he represented major corporations, including Microsoft, Sony, Sharp, and Mastercard". Which might give insight to why before now nothing has really been happening, and why once Lina is out, nothing might start happening again.....
Make sure when you start hearing about victories after Jan you look into who actually made those changes, not just who's in office when they publish it.
This is a very important Video! Thx for making it
Don't forget..farming is heavily subsidized...so taxpayer money is going to greedy equipment manufacturers.
And the new administration will increase those numbers even more
@@autohmae I'm sitting on 6kilo of silver as a what if fund. Still have 100x in stock market but, what if?
How so? @@autohmae
@@macmacox consider relocating to another country.
This one will probably deteriorate rapidly, and lots of countries will take you if you invest that money in local businesses.
Plus, most of your savings could be wiped out if you get a very serious illness.
Not every farmer is heavily subsided by "ourgovt". Tree farmers don't get paid for ie , poor markets, controled by the Mega mills, weather related crop losses, no crop insurance for us😂.
Hurricane Helena has shown this Tree Farmers the govts true colors.
We had this in Germany around 2002. It was a big problem in the car industry. Politics made regulations. After it was ok. Now 20 years later we need regulations again because of new technologies.
Isn't bmw a German company why does require still dealership to complete the oil change then?
@@lucas839what specific car does need this?
@@lucas839many cars have different software in EU and US.I live in EU and my gf has a bmw which has oil change button in car settings that is just absent in the US.
Awesome reporting! I'm from Texas, am country at heart, and hope to farm one day. So when I saw Walmart selling John Deere sweaters I got all giddy! But I had a check in my heart for some reason not to purchase the product so I didn't. Days later, I see this.
This was an amazing video! Keep up the good work!
Bottom line, everything's corrupt, and since we cant stick together on anything its easy for corporations and government to screw up over.
Bingo. "the people" are hopeless so long as they remain divided. US citizens really like to screw themselves as far as I can tell.
Exactly. It's to their benefit to keep us fighting with eachother over stupid shit so they can continue to do things massively beneficial to them in the shadows. I truly believe that is the entire goal of the ridiculous political environment we're finding ourselves in. Nothing but distraction and they might even all be in it together
True!!
Corruption and greed at its finest. 5, 10, 15, 20 million a year for a CEO? How about 25-100+ million of people's hard earned dollars to buy a product that the middle class workers created. The craziest part? If they could take even more, they would.
Why is anyone surprised? Monsanto has been doing that with seed for decades.
@@Xinyoutingyou gotta be fucking kidding right?
This stupid comment
@@cadillacdeville1491it's AI
I built that for them (unofficially) for seed research.
Pretty sad you can't save your seeds
An educative compilation Sanya !
Grandpa has an ancient Minneapolis Moline combine that he repaired every year right before harvest. He’d be sad to see this. Thx for keeping us informed.
Grandad grew up on the farm. And became an IH equipment mechanic. He even went on to teach his skills through University Extension. He would be devastated to see the industry now.
if buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing.
no, you're wrong, my friend, and corporations will probably explain it to you easily. unfortunately..
Best video I have ever watched on youtube. This should be on national news and social media asap. Thank you for the good job.
As a former Deere service tech I can say all this is 100% true they also have a f11 hidden screen that shows you what’s wrong with the tractor but won’t tell the customers how to get to it. They do PDI’s and if any of the tractors have scratch’s etc they just use cheap paint markers and paint over them and sell them, if I’m paying 250,000$ plus I don’t want scratch’s and dings fixed with a paint markers DONT BUY DEERE !
Clear solution, stop buying John Deere.
there's no other option
@@CallumMoscript99 of course there is other options.
You stop buying John Deere...other companies are seeing the profits and are adopting these policies.
Apple and the tech sector is the same. We won't win this by simply not buying from 1 company.
@@JohnSmith-ug5ci list them
@@CallumMoscript99 Kubota
We have a 1995 Chevy van & everyone asks us if we’re selling it! Nope, we love it! It’s fixable & reliable 😊
Likewise my '91 S10 pickup. Not for sale!
I have a 1993 bluebird bus .I get same thing
same with the tractors i look for and buy 70's -90's tractors make repairs myself and end up with dependable machines no computers for me . jd can remotely shut your new tractor down and reap the ":repair" costs . No thank you
If it weren't for the fact that replacing the transmission in our 2000 Town and Country would cost more than the van itself was worth? (And more than we could afford without taking out a loan) We'd have kept it. I still miss that dusty old thing. Although the 2013 SUV we have now is probably better for us overall.
A van from 1995 typically emits significantly more pollutants compared to a modern van. Over the past few decades, vehicle emission standards have become much stricter, leading to substantial reductions in harmful emissions from newer vehicles.
Carbon Monoxide (CO): Modern vans emit about 98-99% less CO compared to vehicles from the late 1960s.
Nitrogen Oxides (NOx): Emissions of NOx from modern vans are also reduced by about 98% compared to older vehicles.
Hydrocarbons (HC): There has been a similar reduction in hydrocarbon emissions, which contribute to smog and ozone formation.
Older vehicles, including those from 1995, contribute disproportionately to air pollution due to less efficient engines and outdated emission control technologies. This means a 1995 van could emit several times more pollutants per mile than a modern van.
I like how so many companies go from affordable machines for working people, to luxury equipment made to squeeze the most money out of people
Once you can't get substantially more customers in the door every quarter, you have to milk the customers you have harder.
... That's why many things keep increasing in cost, and often decreasing in quality or benefits.
... I'm thinking of health insurance here, that's one major example.
That you squeeze every penny out of some rich trust fund kids or some CEO looking to show off is one thing. They rich and stupid so pop off good on you but ripping off poor farmers who are trying to get buy and get their work done on time to feed their household that’s disgusting… Piracy my friends, never let it die… they don’t like it because game recognises game
@@grmpEqweerseems like the root cost is unlimited growth at all cost
it's all what is in the demand of farmers is and they produce ... you can always buy a older model and keep that running .
@@grmpEqweer tec and inflation make things more expensive .... and nobody is forcing them or you to buy this brand !
Thank you for covering this very important issue of right to repair.
Freedom to repair? No, its Our Right To Repair
You cannot ban what people do with their own hands.
Hate to break your illusion but any company can completely screw you when the repair is made next to impossible and there is no reliable source of spare parts available.
@@timop6340 Thats how obama screwed used cars by lower thr number years parts need to be made. Then destorying older cars, no one wanted to buy new cause they were over priced crap. On top of the fact they went from part being made for 25 years of end of prodiction line. To 15 years after the original model was made. Its much shorter.
Great so crime is just not a thing then?
There's already tons of stuff you can do with your hands to go straight to prison what are you talking about lol
Thanks to the team and moderator for making this excellent piece of information, which is important to all of us in all sorts of different ways, specially if you own a car.
So many of these companies truly despise their customers
Probably. But it's ultimately about line-goes-up on those quarterly profits.
Broke a small piece on my fridge over the summer. Company says just the one replacement will cost half the original cost of the whole fridge. The door only now just got fixed. It does not even match and they still want the insane price.
America, it's time for cake!
3d printing time
I do handyman work...lots of rich people hire me....they've had me haul away 3 refrigerators so far in the past 2 years...they still work!
(One of them had a dead mouse stuck in a cooling fan that I easily fixed). I have them stored in my shop...gonna sell them.
We bought our Amana fridge in 94 & it's still going strong, knock on wood.
I'm proud to say that I work for an American equipment manufacturer and we just launched an online portal so customers can buy their own parts directly and our CS will be happy to guide you through repairs. We won't guarantee success and still prefer that you send it in to a dealer or our plant for repair, but if you want to try we will help.
I have an old Massey Furgesson tractor from the 70s. Had it ten years and it runs like a dream. Replaced the fuel line, fuel filters and ... that's it. It just keeps going. The kids call it "Otis the Tractor"
Went into the toy shop to buy my foster kid a tractor so he could pretend to farm.... They were all John Deere. Shoving brands down the throats of the kids at a premium price.
We got some wood and red paint and made Otis instead. Takes it every where with him.
We've taught him that green tractors are bad. Whenever we're driving down the highway he points out the window and says, "Gross tractor! Yuck! Throw it in the bin!" ... He's teaching his kindy class.
And once older you can teach em how it's even worse then gross
@@FitzChivalryFarseer2 As an Australian, we wait until age 6 before teaching him those words. :D
I used to live half a mile away from the massey furgason factory in Trafford park Manchester in the 1970s it was great to see all those red tractors lined up outside the factory shut down about 1985 very sad
I never thought learning to hack video games in the 90s could be so useful today
John Deere: "We basically have a near-monopoly on farm equipment in the united states.. we're raking in money faster than we can spend it... what do we do now?"
Some exec: "More. MORE. MORE!!!!!!!!!!!"
Buy old tractor without any technology and dont whine. Only flaw here is, they need to wait mechanic for month.
@@ZjBx3v When you need the tractor to work, you can't wait a month lol.
John Deere lost our business in 2010 when we asked about military discounts. Every tractor company offered a simple 10% discount EXCEPT John Deere. The CEO came out and claimed they didn't support the military. I guess enough people were pissed about that and they finally caved and started giving military discounts and the CEO walked back gotta words about a year or two later. By then, myself and many others were sour on the green tractor.
Went and bought New Holland (Ford) and CAT, and that was the best decision of our lives. Especially watching what John Deere has gone on to do to farmers.