Idle Chatter: Hot Rod Farmer

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Understanding solenoid response time. Aired 4/29/23

Posted May 6, 202300:30:00

In this episode, the Hot Rod Farmer dives into explaining how a solenoid on a PWM circuit can become lazy. If this occurs, it will impact the performance...

Hot Rod Farmer: Did they really hack the engine control ECU?

Posted May 3, 2023

Those that sell engine calibrations or what is knows as “tunes” for gasoline and diesel engines, claim to have “hacked” the factory...

Hot Rod Farmer: Sudden death syndrome is not only for soybeans. Originally published 8/8/2018.

Posted May 1, 202300:39:30

This episode of Idle Chatter aired in the early days of the podcast. The introduction and audio are a little different from what I use today....

Getting to know the FENDT Ideal combine. Aired 4/22/23

Posted April 29, 202300:30:00

This week, the Hot Rod Farmer, gets with Kevin Forth from AGCO to discuss the new Ideal combine.

Success on the farm or ranch requires efficient machinery....

On the Road to Jeffrey Mondell.

Posted April 27, 202301:01:06

Last summer an inmate in the NJ State Prison System wrote a letter to my “Ask Ray” column in Hemmings Muscle Machines magazine. 

He...