There were crews of people doing this where I live a couple years ago. They embarrassed the city into doing something about it. The spot they fixed by my house the city came back in and tore everything up and repaved it a few months later.

The equipment I worked on was for mining. Cat was requiring their software to flash the ecu with any major service 10 years ago.

You can get loaders for Deere machines up to a 6R. Here in the the US they get used a lot for exactly that purpose. I walk by that assembly line almost every day and I’d bet about 75% of the machines coming off the line are set-up for a loader.

I don’t know about CNH but CAT has been doing this for years too. I worked at a place that had a ton of CAT construction equipment and we had a laptop from the Local CAT dealer we’d have to use to flash software to machines when we worked on them. I don’t want to comment on the specifics of the Deere policies since…

That thing is coming along great. It kind of reminds me of a story my grandpa used to tell me. He had a Ford jeep he used to scout timber back in the late 60's. It broke down on him in Oklahoma someplace. He got so pissed he just left it there in the woods. A month later he went to get it back and the thing had…

I’ve got a kid that’ll be needing a car to drive in about 3 years. If that thing was half that price I’d go get it and stick it in my garage. I’d make sure the tires are nice and durable though before he gets it.

People who bag on Bernie just don’t understand him. I used to work with a guy who is a lot like Bernie (without the Scrooge McDuck sized bank account). Somebody once said that the guy is an asshole, but he’s a special kind of asshole and once you come to realize that you don’t mind so much and sort of appreciate what…

Cue Indiana Jones saying it belongs in a museum. Definitely an interesting car but I sure as hell wouldn’t want to own it.

My grandpa has that car in “coral” and black without the glass roof.

I always assumed that Marcus Ericsson still had a job because he looked like a generic underwear model.

I’ve been to China a few times, including places where they build military hardware. They’re definitely a threat if they want to be. There are very few places left in the world where they have the resources to build basically anything they want. No money to pay the workers well that’s no problem when you can tell them…

As much of a slime ball as Bannon is I think he’s right about China being a threat, so did Obama though. It had a lot to do with his reasoning for his Asian pivot. Like you guys though I’m not convinced more carriers are a good use of our military budget.

I’m in the same boat, just a bit before you. Took me 8 years and I flunked out once but I got a degree in Mechanical Engineering. If you take my GPA after flunking out by itself I was just under making Deans List every semester. Sometimes the only way to learn your lesson is to get your ass kicked.

I did my part dammit. I bought a little truck last year.

God dammit Honda. On the plus side if they actually do get their shit together things are looking promising. They’ve knocked a couple seconds off their lap times today from earlier in testing. Now if they could get the engine to stop blowing up that’d be great.

I’d buy the shit out of an Aston Martin pick-up...... A few years after it’s released and the price goes in the tank.

The Tom and Aaron show?

They were definitely more expensive but I’m not sure how a different logo on the grille and steering wheel make it more unreliable.

Ha!! I know two people who bought those turds because they were VW’s not a Chrysler. Fooled them didn’t you.

I watched that show because I liked watching Aaron. If he disappears now that he left Gas Monkey I’m done watching.