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Originally Posted by 40FordDeluxe

Nice work! Can buses are great, when they work. We've got ground support equipment at work that have them and they can be real fun to work on. Especially when you don't have the mfr's scan tool to hook into the unit.

I spent 20 odd years as an ASE tech, specialty in electrical systems and canbus programming, my last job in my previous life before I did a 180° career change was programming fuel management systems for the Mopar Drifting team, after the 2009 BK by Chrysler and GM I had to make a career change, having always been very good with cornpukers and dad being a programmer I went back to school and got certified in credit card encryption systems, since vehicle management systems are very similar insofar as the encryption goes it was an easy change, and one I probably should have done long before I did. Pay increase is 2.5x what I made as a tech, plus quality of life is much better with a literal 9-5 job, not a 6am to whenever you are done job.

Originally Posted by mjeds

I spent 20 odd years as an ASE tech, specialty in electrical systems and canbus programming, my last job in my previous life before I did a 180° career change was programming fuel management systems for the Mopar Drifting team, after the 2009 BK by Chrysler and GM I had to make a career change, having always been very good with cornpukers and dad being a programmer I went back to school and got certified in credit card encryption systems, since vehicle management systems are very similar insofar as the encryption goes it was an easy change, and one I probably should have done long before I did. Pay increase is 2.5x what I made as a tech, plus quality of life is much better with a literal 9-5 job, not a 6am to whenever you are done job.

I fix tractors

Originally Posted by 53 Chevy5

I fix tractors

nothin' wrong with that. my father was raised on a diary farm. moved to CA in the 1950s, but from 1923 until 1952 he was a cow milker.

Originally Posted by mjeds

nothin' wrong with that. my father was raised on a diary farm. moved to CA in the 1950s, but from 1923 until 1952 he was a cow milker.

I was just kidding around, I really love what I do. It's actually kinda crazy any more. I am actually familiar with the CAN BUS system, ag has been using it for years now. Tractors usually have a minimum of 5 computers in them anymore and everything is as reliable as the weakest wire.

Originally Posted by 53 Chevy5

I was just kidding around, I really love what I do. It's actually kinda crazy any more. I am actually familiar with the CAN BUS system, ag has been using it for years now. Tractors usually have a minimum of 5 computers in them anymore and everything is as reliable as the weakest wire.

And there are a lot of weak wires on them. My friend has 3 case quadtracs and every harvest we end up putting at least one new harness on one of them some where on the tractor. It's a bad deal.

Originally Posted by 40FordDeluxe

And there are a lot of weak wires on them. My friend has 3 case quadtracs and every harvest we end up putting at least one new harness on one of them some where on the tractor. It's a bad deal.

Three quadtracks, he must farm a lot of ground. Up here it mostly wheeled Steigers and Deeres, and almost nobody has more than one.

Originally Posted by 53 Chevy5

Three quadtracks, he must farm a lot of ground. Up here it mostly wheeled Steigers and Deeres, and almost nobody has more than one.

4000-4500 acres depending on how many fields they can get planted before it is too late. Their grain cart has tracks too. They just got a new one last year. I believe it is a 1500 bushel unit. They run 2 New Holland combines during harvest. Or try to. They have 4 petes and 4 hopper trailers. 2 of which are new wilsons with tags. Those are fun to pull. Most of the time there are only 2 semi drivers so they keep us hopping. 2 of the quadtracs do field work and the other pulls the grain cart. Plus they have a pretty big New Holland MFWA with duals all the way around that pulls 2 wagons.