woodlandfarms
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Tractoring while sitting on my couch
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denubilo
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Attach a lounge chair and fridge to the hood!
MF283
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I'd give it a year or two to work all the bugs out, that things big enough to level a house:shocked:
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flusher
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- Getting old. Sold the ranch. Sold the tractors. Moved back to the city.
I figure if you have enough acreage to justify one of these robots, let it plant the 3000-acre field while you have your normal amount of fun planting a 30-acre parcel on your old fashioned manually operated tractor. Problem solved.
Thomas
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Thats one BIG beast...scare the rings off racoon tail. 
kebo
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Looks like what RoboCop would be driving lol!!!
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woodlandfarms
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When I look at this machine a few things come to mind. It looks like a human could still drive it. What I am getting at is that with things being autonomous, maybe the normal conventions of 4 wheels and a central body, the normalcy of the appearance of a tractor, is not needed. I am watching these robots, the ones that walk like humans, and ponder WHY. Why isn't the design being optimized for the use, and not wrapped around the construct of a human being involved or mimicked.
Maybe I am being to esoteric about this, cause in the end the cheapest way to make an autnonomous tractor is to go buy one and put additional parts on it, not ground up the thing. But I am wondering now that we are looking at no human interaction why these machines aren't looking more different.
But it is pretty cool. I have a number of friends whos family farms range between 10K and 100K acres, and with todays labor issues, getting someone to drive is harder than getting the machine to do it. I sent this to acouple of them and they are wondering how to get there hands on it.
Maybe I am being to esoteric about this, cause in the end the cheapest way to make an autnonomous tractor is to go buy one and put additional parts on it, not ground up the thing. But I am wondering now that we are looking at no human interaction why these machines aren't looking more different.
But it is pretty cool. I have a number of friends whos family farms range between 10K and 100K acres, and with todays labor issues, getting someone to drive is harder than getting the machine to do it. I sent this to acouple of them and they are wondering how to get there hands on it.
