Questions about CTL's

[pennina2]

Well thank you for your response. I am not expecting anyone to do r&d for free, I am only going to as many retailers, rental places, and visit as many forums as possible to get inside the head of the user. Engineers care about how things work, yes. But at the end of the day they will sacrifice user experience for cost any day. I don't expect to fix something that many of the larger companies have failed at doing already, but looking for gaps where design has failed to meet user needs that until this point they have not even realized they have. Thank you though

 

[Bob Rooks]

Of all the mountain's you choose to climb you just picked Mt. Everest. Think of this way. If Rayco, Fecon, Bron, FAE, Prentice, JD , and all the other's are building machine's, and doing an OK job and still not able to produce the perfect machine, then that tells you something. Now enter Bobcat, Caterpillar, Terex, Takiuchi, Kubota, now with there unlimited resource's they can't do it either. There are multiple reason's for that. If you find someone on here that will tell you those reason's for free good luck, I am not one of them.
I will assist other mulcher's all day, I will not R & D for someone for free. There has always been and sizable gap between engineering and real world application of machinery in general. The mulching world is a niche inside a niche in this regard.

"LIKE"!

 

[Bob Rooks]

Well thank you for your response. I am not expecting anyone to do r&d for free, I am only going to as many retailers, rental places, and visit as many forums as possible to get inside the head of the user. Engineers care about how things work, yes. But at the end of the day they will sacrifice user experience for cost any day. I don't expect to fix something that many of the larger companies have failed at doing already, but looking for gaps where design has failed to meet user needs that until this point they have not even realized they have. Thank you though

I worked at PACCAR Truck R&D.
Do you really think that manufacturers don't listen to their customers? Seriously!
I'm an engineer and I have NEVER sacrificed user input vs. cost. That is one of the jobs of an engineer - to make a homogeneous meld that benefits all.

 

[McCaskey]

Heat dissipation is #1 problem in any CTL used for mulching.

 

[Scooby074]

Guys, maybe she can clarify, but i think shes still just a student and this is just an academic exercise. I dont think were going to be doing free R&D for any of the bigs.

I think this is her resume. Wix.com - Website built by pennina2 based on Blank Website | Resume

 

[DIRTROAD]

Guys, maybe she can clarify, but i think shes still just a student and this is just an academic exercise. I dont think were going to be doing free R&D for any of the bigs.

I think this is her resume. Wix.com - Website built by pennina2 based on Blank Website | Resume

Makes more sense now. She should have been 100% truthful up front. Maybe that will be her biggest lesson from this exercise.

 

[nwterex]

You Robbie are right there is a huge disconnect between the engineering departments of all of those companies you mentioned and real world application. I've been selling ASV since 2001 and put one of the first Fecon BH80 heads on an RC100 No side windows and no AC and not a great forestry door ran that unit myself over 400 hours before I sold it. We have desinged Forestry Packages added pressurization to the cab retrofitted AC a lot of those ideas landed in the PT100F a good machine but not perfect. I could give you 100 ideas to make a better machine. But never for free and my allegiance is with Terex for better or worse.

 

[pennina2]

To scooby, that is a website from 4 years ago, absolutely not my resume. And to dirtroad, I was truthful. Although I don't work for a large company at all, and I am really just doing this for a portfolio piece for a division of my smaller consultancy. I didn't want to lie and tell you I was a student, although I see that would have been a better way to go. I am continually disappointed with the people on this and other forums in general on the internet. Behind the cloak of a computer screen people are ugly.

 

[Robbie Hegwood]

You are very intitled to your opinion of us. But here's another way to look at this. I (we on here) have worked extremely hard to learn and understand or respective fields, this is what makes us good at what we do and for most earns our income or part of. So yes we are VERY protective of our knowledge. Just as you would not consult for a client for free. Be careful on your soapbox, it's a hard fall. Now that all has been brought out into the open, why don't you try again. Also remember as it has been pointed out, some people's ideas have already been BORROWED from just such responses!!

 

[Bob Rooks]

Behind the cloak of a computer screen people are ugly.

In real life they are uglier, but real nice folk. :thumbsup::laughing:
You may well continue to surreptitiously glean data and information from websites and forums for your "project", but until you walk a mile in the other person's shoes you will never truly understand.

You say that resume wasn't yours. Okay. Does your project include the technicalities and mechanics of ergonomics? There are a myriad of engineering disciplines involved in machine design. Which one are you involved in?