Tractor Hacking

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ritcheyvs

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Kioti DK45S
Folks with newer electronic tractors may find this interesting:

Hacking Tractor Article

The focus is on Deere but seems applicable to all colors of the newer electronic machines. As an electrical engineer, I can see how this came to be: the gap between designers and maintainers is huge. Glad I own an older machine.
 
   / Tractor Hacking #2  
Yeah, read about it when the article(s) first came out, a while ago. Big guys want to control ownership of everything done, like the big guys do with independent mechanics doing work on their cars; Mercedes, Volvo, BMW have done it for YEARS.
Between the EPA dictating what has to be essentially ALL electronic control of emissions, and just about everything on CUTS, I have to say I, like you, am glad my tractor is pre-Orwellian 'controls'.

It will be interesting how all this pans out for farmers and tractor owners of large machines and farms down to the smaller operations/farms. Then there is all the pressure of what's 'organic' food and who makes what, who will survive against the 'industry' farms that have money to crush the little guys...
 
   / Tractor Hacking #3  
Bottom line is this, folks can't afford this crap. Even some dealers have trouble fixing the final 4 tractors. We just had one go down for a month at work.

If I find somebody legit that can repair :rolleyes: my tractor you can bet it's happening...
 
   / Tractor Hacking #4  
This has been hashed out on tbn before
 

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