John Williams
Cleveland, MS (USA)
Role(s):
Founder/Owner/Principal
John Henry's Ag + Turf Electrical Repairs
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Location:
Cleveland
Industry:
Agriculture
Year Founded:
2018
Number Employees:
1-10 people
Business Stage:
Growth (profitable)
Entity Type:
Limited Liability Company
Description:
I am a Master John Deere Tech that used to work for a John Deere Dealership fixing electrical wiring harness issues for the dealership on all John Deere equipment for over 5 years. I have to decided to go on my own making wiring harness for tractors, cars, lawnmowers, gators, etc. I also install light-bars, headlights, etc. I have a office location instead of a shop for the purpose of keeping overhead low. I work in the field out of my car. I assemble wiring harnesses and repair them inside the office. Customers in my immediate area, I can come and remove/install harness and diagnose issues in the field. For customers that are not close, they can continue to use the mechanics/dealership that they are already using but can send their harnesses to me and I can make them a new one or repair that one and send it back. I charge 40% off the market value on a new harness from the parts department at a dealership or secondary parts house, and my hourly labor rate is over 45% off the rate of the dealerships that offer this service. An example of how I save farmers time and money:
Because there is no standard job code on electrical diagnostics (most jobs have a standard pay rate based on hours expected to complete the job and most jobs pay standard 2 hour diagnostics allowance.) dealerships use this area of trouble to make their most profit. They can justifiably charge you 6-8 hours to diagnose a wiring harness failure and then charge you for the harness (which these harnesses can cost up to $6000) and then charge you for up to an addition 12 hours of installation time. For farmer in my service area I can save them over 45% an hour on installation (URL removed)ce the installation time is a standard job code, I cannot change that for farmers that are not in my service area but how I can save them money is by saving them time on diagnostics. For example, tractor has issue that take seems like your gonna need a either a harness or a controller. The dealership can take up to 6-8 hours to diagnose. (The dealership will always replace a harness before controllers because controllers are the lest likeliness thing to malfunction and also the most expensive electrical part to replace 90% of the time) Once they give the customer this diagnosis, then they charge full market value for the parts (in this case, lets say the harness is $2000) and then add on what ever additional time the can under that job code to replace harness. When the Farmer's tractor gets to acting up, the farmer may not know how to fix it but they have been around this equipment enough to have a pretty good idea of what could be the issue. When they are faced with a issue like this, I can save them time. Instead of letting the dealership charge $600-$800 dollars of diagnostics time and then buying a harness at $2000 ($2800 total before installation), they can pay for 2 hours diagnostics ($200) and a harness at 40% off market value ($1200) and still be less then the original price for a harness with out installation at the dealership.