The point he was making was that, that the way the industry is going, the machines are getting more adavanced and more technical, that in turn will end up been the standard that will be expected when you ring up to hire a machine etc, a bit like when then first extra-dig got rolled out on the back of a 3cx or when Q-hitches first came onto the market, yes, we can manage without them, and yes we’ve done it/and still can do it without them, but, it takes longer to do. That’s not a problem, but the flip side of that coin is, that if your losing a couple of hours a day changing attachments and having to have an engineer on site full time, marking out etc,etc, that comes off your bottom line, which in today’s market, with margins been tighter than they’ve ever been, a man on a machine who is experienced to be able to use a tilty and GPS, is worth more than a man who isn’t, that’s all, I really don’t believe it was a dig at the old school ways of working, just used as an example of the situation we find are selfs in.
As for piling more stuff in a machine, I totally agree with you, it’s getting to the stage where you can’t see the wood for the trees, and only last week, me and the old man where asked to give are thoughts on the matter.
I think CAT are the only ones who seem to be setting the standard at the moment, with everything done through the monitor, freeing up valuable visabitlty on the windows. Farmers have been doing this for years, and have everything on one monitor, so I don’t see any reason why all machine manufactures can’t do the same, I think JCB really dropped the ball with there new Xsreies machine, by not including it.
even started to see 2 or 3 nice, fully loaded machines(no GPS, just tilty, prolec, height and slew restrictor etc) go through Eruo over the last 18 months, so it’ll be interesting to see what happens over the next 5/6 years.