When a piece of equipment breaks down on site, rental agreements, subcontractor contracts and other arrangements generally make it clear who gets to open the hood and start tinkering. But heavy ...

John Deere Operations Center PRO Service is a digital tool designed to enhance how equipment owners use, maintain, diagnose, repair, and protect their equipment. It provides support capabilities for ...

Like many parts of modern life, tractors have gone high-tech, often running on advanced computer systems. But some manufacturers are tight-lipped about how these electronics work, making it difficult ...

Welding creates problems for fleet managers because construction equipment does not fall into a neat category. A welder cannot qualify a hard-facing procedure to a structural steel welding code, for ...

American farmers say they are being squeezed not only by rising costs but also by restrictions that prevent them from fixing their own equipment, leaving them stuck with hefty bills and long wait ...

After more than a decade of legislative proposals, the Biden Administration is preparing plans to allow equipment owners to have the right to repair their own equipment. First reported by Reuters ...

Tire repair work requires the right equipment, tools and materials to ensure a quality job. Let’s look at some of the essentials for performing tire repair work. Lifting equipment –- Repairing a flat ...

The fight for our right to repair the stuff we own has suffered a huge setback. As anyone who repairs electronics knows, keeping a device in working order often means fixing both its hardware and ...

Jake Lieb stands by his John Deere planter March 18 on his farm near Monticello, Ill. Deere signed a memorandum of understanding last year that should help farmers like Lieb and independent repair ...

John Deere’s “unfair” practices raised repair costs for farmers and kept them from being able to make repairs on tractors and other equipment they own, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleges in a ...