Since the
invention of tractor technology, well-known and world class tractor
manufacturing companies came aboard to contribute the development of this farm
machine. Allis Chalmers, John Deere, Case, Farmall, Ford Tractors are some
mentionable names who contribute a lot of time, money and effort to develop
this technology during the early days that is first half of 20th century. They
upgraded tractors with new modules and types of equipment and introduce to the
market that still can be found in many parts of the world functioning in
farming fields.
For
instance, Ford researched and developed N Series tractors i.e. Ford 9N, Ford
2N, and Ford 8N and all these models were introduced between 1939 and 1952.
These models are still found functioning in the agricultural industry even
within the US. Although, the tractor technology experience the most up-gradation
in last few decades and now many high-tech tractors which are software operated
and equipped with critical electronic gadgets that increase sky high efficiency
compare to the old model tractors are dominating the farming industry. However,
still all those antique Ford tractors are in growing demand among the users.
The reasons
are bit interesting. The increased efficiency of modern day tractors with
complicated electrical gadgets, software supported operation system and other
functions; it brings many complications too especially for the individual
tractor owners. Tractors, automobiles or any machines are something that needs
replacement parts at some point for smooth operation. Modern high-tech tractor
parts are much complicated to produce and can only be found at the
manufacturers end or their authorized dealers. In case of shortage, it would be
hard to get the required parts from alternate sources. Sometimes, the owner has
to wait for a long time to get the necessary parts until the manufacturer produce
and deliver directly or through their dealer. During that time, the tractor
owner doesn’t have any option other than to keep the machine idle. Besides once
the part is available, the user also have taken his tractor to the dealers
location to fix the replacement part as either fixing it by an unauthorized
entity may void the warranty or it may be too complicated for general mechanics
to replace the parts by themselves.
Another
complication that faced by the modern day tractor owners in recent times is the
software that operates the tractor. Copyright issues are imposed by the
manufacturing companies on those software’s that secured through passwords and
it force the owners to get help from either the production company or their
authorized dealers to fix any problems regarding the software malfunction. Any
attempt to break the software passwords for fixing such failure will raise
legal issues that also discourage the tractor users purchasing these high-tech
tractors.
On the other
hand, few aftermarket tractor parts supplier companies collect the antique Ford
tractors from the existing owners, remanufacture or restore them with upgraded
modules and components that are also produced at their own facility and resale
them at much reasonable price. These remanufactured Ford tractors are almost
equally efficient as the modern day tractors, but less complicated in terms of
operating. As the aftermarket tractor parts suppliers upgrade the antique
tractor with their self-produced original like parts, they also keep a good
amount of stock of those spare parts for instant supply in case of replacement
need by the owner.
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