 One of the biggest concerns in farming is rising input costs up until this recent price hike in commodities We really have not over over years and years if you go back 20-30 years we have not had a significant rise in commodity prices. There's been blips, but but generally they've settled in and How we've been able to survive is really through efficiency and through through increased yields and efficiency of inputs On my farm I noticed one of my major costs was was equipment and that's for any farmer that's a major expense and With commodity prices having been stagnant and and equipment prices seeming to go up every year when I started farming in 2005 full-time, you know a new tractor was 125,000 dollars. Well now that same tractor is 320 to 340,000 dollars So you know we've had doubled almost triple increase in equipment cost It's turned from from an expense to a major expense. I decided there had to be a better way to do this Being able to buy these older tractors restore and put them back to work and we're doing it for significantly less cost than than what a new unit would would cost plus a major A major thing with them is the the parts cost most of these were built out of big truck parts and readily available parts not proprietary parts like most manufacturers use so We're able to source our parts from different places than dealerships And really the parts cost is minimal exponentially cheaper compared to Going to a dealer and buying parts and it's a testament That there are still a lot of these all over the world running early Stagger tractors are still known for for tough and simple to work on and good tractors Talking older than me or as old as me and that's what that's how tough they were built though And I've always been into old cars and and like projects and so this is a It's been a little bit of a hobby for me I've been able to to satisfy that itch of of kind of old things and it's in learning new things and figuring things out On this on this old equipment, but it makes me money From day one when we got these tractors We've actually been running them and I say we've put approximately 2,000 hours on each tractor They they get used more than any tractors on my farm because in the spring and fall We're doing tillage with them and then all summer we move dirt with them So but but my cost on these I know my cost because the beauty of these tractors is is like I mentioned the transmissions $5,000 well the the dropbox is $5,000 the the axles less than $5,000 So I know that no matter what happens no matter what major breakdown I have there's not going to be a 20 30 40 $50,000 breakdown I can replace any major component on this tractor behind me for approximately $5,000 or less including the engine So the golden era for tractors as far as I'm concerned It was before design obsolescence came in was even a word They weren't designing a part to fail at a certain time They were making they were building things as tough as possible and wanted them to be cheap to work on They wanted to use common components that big trucking mining industries So you could get the parts if a dealer wasn't close I plan to restore hopefully one a year for the foreseeable future I've got very good employees. I've got a couple of South African gentlemen who mechanics in South Africa and like messing with these and are very good So that's where we're we're able to go in and I've really gotten to a point where it's cheaper for me to have One to two people full time to start restoring these Then make equipment payments. So