Clever Dic
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- Location
- Melton
Just wondering if it's me or do others feel we are being lead by machinery dealers/agricultural manufacturing industry into a situation of diminishing returns for our money.
My recent case and still ongoing of the great benefits of the rush for more technology is my new fertilizer spreader. I have just bought a Kvernland Geodisc machine full weighing,auto shut off ,sectional shutting,the mutts nuts. For my Gps I was on patchwork blackbox as it controlled my previous machine. Experience has told me that getting this stuff to work is never what the salesman said so I gave myself 6 weeks for dealer manufacturer and patchwork to get it all singing. To start with a whole multitude of fresh cabling had to be installed none of which was mentioned or even known at the time by the parties concerned and many visits to get it all talking. O as an aside patchwork upgraded my web track 2 cloud storage to web track 3 lost all my stored info but added various other farms from up and down the country to my records. To get applied fertilizer info for last year having spent a fortune on all this techno feast I had to use the operators written diary notes ,I would add as well that this was meant to be fixed some time ago but this morning when we synced he first days spreading not only was all this crap still in my records but it wiped the application jobs and fields from the memory stick in the process which was not discovered till the machine was back in the field 12 miles from home. Tonight still not fully working.
I am totally guilty at buying in to these improvements and wanting to be progressive but is it smoke and mirrors are we really seeing better crops ,higher yields, less £s spent on crops and cultivation and is all this technology worth the heartache because you can bet your life that in my experiences it's the non working technology that stops the job getting done.
Bit cheesed by it all tonight.
My recent case and still ongoing of the great benefits of the rush for more technology is my new fertilizer spreader. I have just bought a Kvernland Geodisc machine full weighing,auto shut off ,sectional shutting,the mutts nuts. For my Gps I was on patchwork blackbox as it controlled my previous machine. Experience has told me that getting this stuff to work is never what the salesman said so I gave myself 6 weeks for dealer manufacturer and patchwork to get it all singing. To start with a whole multitude of fresh cabling had to be installed none of which was mentioned or even known at the time by the parties concerned and many visits to get it all talking. O as an aside patchwork upgraded my web track 2 cloud storage to web track 3 lost all my stored info but added various other farms from up and down the country to my records. To get applied fertilizer info for last year having spent a fortune on all this techno feast I had to use the operators written diary notes ,I would add as well that this was meant to be fixed some time ago but this morning when we synced he first days spreading not only was all this crap still in my records but it wiped the application jobs and fields from the memory stick in the process which was not discovered till the machine was back in the field 12 miles from home. Tonight still not fully working.
I am totally guilty at buying in to these improvements and wanting to be progressive but is it smoke and mirrors are we really seeing better crops ,higher yields, less £s spent on crops and cultivation and is all this technology worth the heartache because you can bet your life that in my experiences it's the non working technology that stops the job getting done.
Bit cheesed by it all tonight.