Bernie Sanders announces a farmers' right-to-repair and antitrust proposal similar to Elizabeth Warren's

[jarnsaxa]

@Ryuthrowsstuff

But over all its pretty rare here to see any tractor newer than the 1970’s. And there’s a lot of units that are much older. Guy near my house runs International Harvester tracters from the 40’s.

Those are great tractors! We had a 40’s IH on our farm that was still being used daily in 2004.

[jarnsaxa]

@Brainspore

I get that this is an issue designed to garner support from rural voters but again that makes me wonder why one or both doesn’t put forward a right-to-repair bill now.

Which would have a stronger case for the White House: a politician who had great ideas for legislation they’d like to see as President, or a politician who actually sponsored that legislation and pushed it through a bipartisan congress?

Both methods would be ideal, of course. At this point, I’m pro ANY proposal/bill/idea that will siphon any voters away from Trump/GOP.

[Ryuthrowsstuff]

They’re pretty much indestructible if you can keep the rust at bay. Which again, island.

“Buying a new tractor” here mostly mean taking a trailer somewhere dryer with less salt to find some odd ball IH machine that still runs.

Bobcats are really popular too. I guess since they’re technically construction equipment they aren’t as restricted repair wise.

But it seems like the other end of the right to repair thing is the big American manufacturers abandoning the small farm market. The only dealership we even have here anymore is Kubota, and they recently started selling Mahindra. They started as the Bobcat dealer.