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which sensor it is as technology moves
into the world of Agriculture small
farmers have faced problems when they've
needed to repair or modify their
equipment regulations are stricter
agribusiness is more consolidated and
equipment is infinitely more complicated
and proprietary just this week the
Copyright Office decided it's now legal
to investigate modify and hack farm
equipment like tractors with some
limitations before this decision came
down we spent some time with agriculture
and repair professionals to see how
these regulations were affecting them
and why it's important to fight for the
right to repair well my name is Jeff
buckingham and my family and I have a
cow-calf operation out here then we
raise calves to either be cows or to be
beef the transition to computerized
equipments have been happening all along
although I think it's intensifying over
the last ten years my neighbors and
myself repaired our own equipment a
hundred percent but more recently we're
getting to the situation where if we
have a problem with a piece of equipment
we really can't repair it ourselves so
we're seeing intelligence in all kinds
of equipment now and it's wonderful in
the way that the quotient functions but
on the other hand those things have a
tendency to break or need to be modified
if you're gonna use the equipment in
different ways and that's where we run
into the problems I think part of what
we enjoy about the agriculture side of
our lives is practicing self-reliance
it's also a financial necessity because
many things like a cow-calf operation
the amount of revenue that floats
through there each year through this
operation simply will not support
repairs from a dealership or all kinds
of other amenities generally speaking
with most equipment that we purchase we
we don't distinguish between the
software or the operating system and the
equipment itself if we buy a tractor or
a loader
we're buying that whole component the
manufacturer has chosen to put those
pieces in and frankly from our
perspective in a lot of cases we don't
have a choice as to leave that part out
but we need to be able to work on that
modify it repair it to use it to its
fullest value and we should not be
subjected to their modifications of what
we can do to things that limit our use
that it doesn't make any sense and we're
not in the software business you know
selling operating systems to Attractor
dealers you know we're just trying to
use what we purchased my name is Paul
Chamblin and I work in the maintenance
facility here and I'm kind of the
mechanic that that fixes it if it gets
broke well if one of one of the things
that we've been working on that we ended
up not being able to fixes or 84 30 well
the problem ended up being that there
was something inside the transmission
itself we couldn't fix it ourselves
because there's proprietary to begin
with that particular transmission and
and again that's just too big for what
we've got here to pull out so as a
combination of yeah maybe us not having
the right equipment but also the
proprietary nature of it yeah meaning
that we couldn't access the codes well
yeah well yeah when they come up you
know they've got a laptop that they that
they plug into a connection on it and
then they've got software they call a
service advisor that they can get into
that tractor a whole lot further than I
can but I mean wouldn't it be so much
more efficient if we had that access to
those codes
well sure it would as long as you have
the information available to to tell you
what that code meant and where to go to
fix it sure I mean yeah that's yeah the
the thing that's frustrating to me about
the way things are evolving now is I
would always rather have the choice as
the owner of the business to invest in
technology or invest in the training for
our people so that we can fix this stuff
ourselves and I feel like increasingly
the manufacturers are really taking that
option away from us my name is Paul
Lewis and I run an independent shop I
repair trucks I repair any type of
commercial vehicle whatever pretty much
whatever is powered by diesel engines
you know I was there from day one when
Detroit Diesel first started making a
fly-by-wire electronic engine they
pretty much just took an engine that was
a mechanical engine and adapted
electronic in gestures and then they had
electronic pickups for cam and the
timing sensors and that was the
attraction to it back then was that the
timing and the fuel delivery can be done
in milliseconds when I first saw it and
when it became widely used the
efficiency of the engines just skyrocket
you know it challenges is with the
software that the manufacturers have
that's the challenge the usually
electronics on the engine is really not
an issue but
for somebody like me is an independent
shop the manufacturers control the
diagnostic equipment the diagnostic
software and that control because they
have that control they limit shops like
mine and if we could do business or not
there's just certain engines that I
can't work on I just I can't work on it
because the Diagnostics I like they're
not available to me and so my customer
loses and I lose it if I had the
software you know I could look at it
and even if it was a warranty issue you
know we can narrow it down you know cuz
even you know if it does have to go over
there we can narrow it down and I could
tell the dealership hey this is what's
going on you know and then we could just
streamline the whole situation but right
now we don't have that you know right
now it's it is the way it is right now
and it's totally inefficient and the
manufacturer has the customer extreme
disadvantage you know the way I look at
it the owner of the vehicle bot you know
whatever licensing fees and whatever
type of creative process that he paid
for he paid for we bought the vehicle
far as I'm concerned you know cuz that's
his the ECU on on that truck he's not
releasing it he's not renting it from
Caterpillar he bought it so they made
their money then when he bought it from
them okay he should be able to fix it
I should be able to fix it anybody
should be able to fix it for him it's
his caterpillar doesn't own it okay they
sold it alright if they wanted to keep
it they should keep it okay if they want
to sell it sell it let other people fix
it I I think farmers can naturally work
on it fix any kind of equipment I think
the only issue that we're dealing with
that really affects it at this point is
access there you know we need to be able
to have access to the support mechanisms
whatever those maybe passwords data
structures and other tools that we need
to be able to work on them you know
farmers are by their nature self-reliant
and creative whether it's electronic
mechanical biological farmers deal with
those things all the time and there's no
reason at all why we can't deal with the
complex systems and a lot of this
equipment if we had access to the same
information that the dealers have and
the manufacturers have and they use that
they