[quote=@Jotunn Draugr] Okay. I'll repost in tinypic. All I was really thinking was tractors, combines, and grain silos. Things that might not be common in every country. My idea about what makes the Hutterites such a neat addition to this world is they wouldn't have been hit by any bombs during the war. So anything that could be maintained and repaired over the years might still exist in some form, however primitive and junky. Imagine a rusted out tractor, with parts replaced with salvage, but a tractor nonetheless. [/quote] As someone whose worked with shop folk and the sort of people who have to repair equipment like tractors for the better part of seven to eight years, it's usually not that easy. There's not a lot of standardization across brands and doing simple shit like re-tapping holes is a massive pain in the ass and can easily turn into a horror story. And when you get machines as big and complex as these: [img]https://www.deere.com/common/media/images/product/equipment/combines/r2/hero/r2d000730_762x458.jpg[/img] It can get insane. And they're already uncommon machines as-is. I'm sure a few enterprising persons can wrangle it. But we also come into the roadblock that is access to the materials. And even if you can get all the bolts that can take the sheer force of working on equipment like that you come to the issue where you're not going to have much in the fuel and producing the ethanol to the quantity to keep them in the field is going to eat into food output and effect end-result food costs. Ethanol is also murder on engines (for example: alcohol holds onto water and when so much water gets into the engine it murders it, so when higher concentrations are introduced in the fuel then there's a greater and greater risk water will be present, alcohol is also corrosive and can eat some of the non-metal parts in an engine) so when the finer components in motors are murdered on a cut ethanol blend you're not going to replace them. They'd hang on, but not for long. And soon you'll be forced into smaller plots so the same small team can manage it all on more antiquated supplies or you're going to need to pull in more people from the larger community to help, cutting into an already limited population that'll cut on people doing innovative work so that they can eat.