Posted on 03/22/2017 1:08:15 PM PDT by Rebelbase
To avoid the draconian locks that John Deere puts on the tractors they buy, farmers throughout America's heartland have started hacking their equipment with firmware that's cracked in Eastern Europe and traded on invite-only, paid online forums.
Tractor hacking is growing increasingly popular because John Deere and other manufacturers have made it impossible to perform "unauthorized" repair on farm equipment, which farmers see as an attack on their sovereignty and quite possibly an existential threat to their livelihood if their tractor breaks at an inopportune time.
"When crunch time comes and we break down, chances are we don't have time to wait for a dealership employee to show up and fix it," Danny Kluthe, a hog farmer in Nebraska, told his state legislature earlier this month. "Most all the new equipment [requires] a download [to fix]."
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They shouldn't be.
F1 is just a pay-to-play game anymore...
It'll still be a hard row to hoe.
ping
Wow! Just yesterday, my husband went up to the junk yard to get a new motor for our drivers seat in our Ford Expedition. You cant just buy a “motor”, you have to get the whole seat track! Dealer cost for this was a little over $500 [I believe their price was $532?]....plus whatever labor they would charge.....price at junkyard....$32. We cringe at the thought of having to use the dealer for any repairs. Oh and it sounds like “$500” has become the standard price for any broken part. smh
Try a toyota.Noway you can work on it.We must bring this to the attention of the great Donald!
Sounds like CA smog testing insanity.
This will be making big news soon. Millions in CA are now required to drive in circles, endless miles, were talking hundreds of miles, in attempts to simply recycle their vehicle computers so they can “qualify” to take the smog test. They’re not even allowed to take the smog test until the computer shows all diagnostics on the computer show, “complete” and ready for the smog test.
It’s a complete chaotic and environmental disaster. They say upwards of 5 million in CA on now:
“Stuck in CA smog check hell”
http://workingreporter.com/wordpress/stuck-in-smog-check-hell/#comment-164909
No need to hack my 1941 Ford 9n.
75 years young and still plugging away.
“In fact, I want to find myself some 1940 or 1950 era vehicle...”
Get on that; they’re not all that inexpensive, now; they’ll only cost MORE once more folks begin to catch onto your way of thinking.
Go root around eBay and Craig’sList — y’never know what you’ll find. Just beware of scams; if the price seems WAY to good, it’s probably not a legit sale offer — the “seller” probably doesn’t even own the car & is just using pictures of someone else’s ride they scalped of the ‘net. Very common scam.
Get on out there and do some shopping. You could have that classic in your driveway by summertime.
There’s a tractor that’s been prototyped here in Alabama. It’s got no computers,it’s a small diesel or gas powered (buyers choice) affair, but the grab is its made with parts readily available almost every where. It’s being marketed to third world farmers and nothing in it is proprietary. It’s k8nda pricey, 10,000 for gas and 12 for diesel, but it’s an interesting concept, and one I support.
I’d like to get another 67 Cougar like the one I had for a short while in the early 00’s.
Those were cool cars. Which engine did yours have; 289, 390, 410 or the six?
Just listed at $5k
wish there could be a car like that
It was a base 289.
The factory AM radio still worked.
Here it is at my parent’s place way back when.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tysonneil/129847080/
It wound up being sold to solve a money problem that could have been handled differently but I lost that battle. At least it was bought by a collector in Oklahoma so it went to a good home.
Bastard corporatists. It should be a law that if a seller requires a purchaser to get maintenance from the seller, the service is free. When ownership transfers, it’s transferred. The friggin software industry screwed this up.
Looks way better than mine.
The one I had was in an uncle’s barn for a few years.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tysonneil/129847080/
I’ve told my wife more than once that if I run across another that I can afford, it stays this time.
Ooooooh. Too bad.
My folks had a ‘60 Torino GT running a 351 Windsor.
Avocado Green.
Black vinyl hardtop.
NOT the fastback body style.
Black stripes down the rocker panels.
Never seen another exactly like it.
Pop unloaded it to some High School kid because the C6 automatic was getting soft in the shift, and there was a softball-sized door dent on one side.
That was just a picture I got off the net to show what a ‘67 Cougar looked like.
Mine was an XR-7, yellow with a black segmented racing strip along the top side edge of the car—very cool.
289 V-8, auto, black interior.
Bought used for $750 in 1975. Sold for $300 in 1977 to pay the doctor bill for delivering Son #1.
Yours was very good looking.
I loved the sequential tail lights, and the the “thump-thump” sound the vacuum operated headlight covers made when closing.
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