[Themaintainers] For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now a hot commodity

[Danny Spitzberg]

If anybody wants a stack of repair manuals for various vintage tractor
models, there are about 100 in a stack at a consignment shop in Morro Bay,
California:

On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 11:05 AM Eric Kaltman <ekaltman at andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:

> Article from Star Tribune on the desire for older, easier to repair
> tractors.
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> http://www.startribune.com/for-tech-weary-midwest-farmers-40-year-old-tractors-now-a-hot-commodity/566737082/
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> “Tractors manufactured in the late 1970s and 1980s are some of the hottest
> items in farm auctions across the Midwest these days — and it’s not because
> they’re antiques.
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> Cost-conscious farmers are looking for bargains, and tractors from that
> era are well-built and totally functional, and aren’t as complicated or
> expensive to repair as more recent models that run on sophisticated
> software.”
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