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McLeod County Minnesota |
Re: earlier discussion of broken combine belt that is on back order.
Experience has told us to keep an inventory of expendables for every machine that we need for getting a crop in the ground and getting grain in the bin including bearings, belts, alternators, filters, and a ton of similar items that can shut us down when they go south. The cost of downtime and driving time to a dealer is frequently greater than the cost of the part so an on-farm inventory frequently pays for itself.
Last fall, one of the guys got me out of bed with a call on the radio that the alternator light had come on in one of the 4-wheelers. I told him to meet me at the shop and we would get him going again. In no time he was back in business with a new alternator and set of belts. The time saved on that one repair paid for lots of replacement parts.
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Do you keep an inventory of replacement parts?
