astrolite wrote:
I agree with you on that! I build what my customers want! All of them have different wants, and different needs, as most of our manufactures are no longer in business, the parts I use must be replaceable! 2/3 of the heavy equiptment makers are no longer in business! You have a 2 million dollar dragline, or dredge, Dealer is "out of business" no franchise, no manufacture! In these times you can't just scrap it and buy another! And all farmers and grove owners have a different idea of "What works for them". They tell me what they want, and the sizes and dimensions needed, I build it! But no young people care about learning all the skills neccessary! "Takes too long". Same in the Machine tool industry in New England, a few old men build all of our machine tools, It takes 3 years to build the machines needed to manufacture a new automotive engine! And we have sent them out of the country! So bankers could make more money? The factories are EMPTY, no machines, and the skilled machinists are old, dead, or retired! No new people learning the trades, Our country is doomed! Greed at the top has ruined us! Lawyers suing people is not a GNP! Neither is bureaucrats sucking the blood out of the few workers!
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In her later years my mother had a friend who had gravel pits & things. But he would have to by the jaws for a rock crusher & with a couple of measurements would build the rest from scratch. TL Smith built rock crushers & put $40,000 into just the engineering. He would do the whole thing for less.