Re:Farmers are hacking their tractors because of a repair ba...
by nullsocket on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @10:51AM
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These companies are also actively pushing "Renting" as a business model where the farmer only rents the tractor for the season. Any maintenance and repairs are done as part of the rental and at the end of the season, the tractor goes back. This completely cuts the farmer out of the equation in terms of ownership/repair.
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Re:Farmers are hacking their tractors because of a repair ba...
by raw_creations on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @03:17PM
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Rent or buy, the issue is that if a harvester breaks down in the field
it could be 3 ~4 days before a technician gets to the field, diagnoses
and has to order a part, wait for said part and come back to your field to
replace it. That machine being down for two weeks during harvest could
mean the farmer losing a whole lot of money.
Re:Farmers are hacking their tractors because of a repair ba...
by 4043D on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @03:39PM
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If you are someplace like rural Australia the closest tech might be 1000km away.. if they haven't installed the hacked firmware they can't even service them without a tech or the tractor shuts down.