Why ask dumb questions? Of course doing your own maintenance and repairs makes you a better farmer. How could it possibly be cheaper to pay someone else to do something you can do?
Well, lets put the numbers to the test. But be prepared. It won t be as simple as you might think. Like everything else in farming, finding the least-cost option for machinery maintenance and repair involves evaluating a lot of alternatives.
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Lets start with the farm workshop. Every farmer sometimes finds themself lying on their back in crop stubble, struggling to make an in-field repair despite the dust and the grunge dropping into your eyes.
Most serious repair work, however, needs to happen in a controlled environment. Hence the need for a farm shop if the work is going to be a do-it-yourself project as it often is.
It seems natural to assume that every farmyard needs a workshop. If there s ever any question about it, it s a question about what tools you need, or how much bigger you need to make that door.
Think about it, though. Those questions can have awfully big implications.
Today s farm machines are big and they re getting bigger, and that means the farm shop has to keep pace. But how
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