Farmers jailbreaking John Deere tractors to repair them - video

[Frank S]

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Yep and they wont shut themselves down because they lost connection with the internet or missed a regen cycle because of being in the field trying to complete a harvest before a storm. crops cannot wait 3 to 15 days for a dealership to send out a service tech who will probably tell the farmer once he arrives and has a look at the piece of equipment that it will have to be transported to the dealership to re calibrate the computer that controls the tire inflation and the windshield wipers because it is not allowed to be done in the field without a complete diagnostic
You may think I'm joking but according to some of the cotton farmers things have really gotten so bad that you don't dare operate a piece of equipment with the cab doors open when the air conditioner goes out for fear of the onboard computer sending a fault code that will shut down the machine because the computer overheated