Watching Netflix while tending the farm

[Atchuuu]

Interesting story in the WSJ about farmers who have wireless service and Netflix in the cab of their large AG tractor. Who knew?
Farmers Plow Through Netflix While Plowing Fields - WSJ

 

[Industrial Toys]

Not really much good on Leftflix anymore. I could see them sitting in their big cabs, hand off the wheel watching **** hub though. Going around a field in circles drives me mad from boredom.

 

[kneedeep]

Don't believe that is the norm! Most rural areas will not support Internet in a moving tractor to stream movies. Must be a millinual thing.
I use a external antennae Bluetooth to a tablet for a spray app. Don't have enough juice to stream movies.
Dude may download movies and shows, then watch while riding with auto steer. He should focus on monitoring equipment instead of watching movies.
Not the real world of farming. Wall Street Journal no less!!

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Don't believe that is the norm! Most rural areas will not support Internet in a moving tractor to stream movies. Must be a millinual thing.
I use a external antennae Bluetooth to a tablet for a spray app. Don't have enough juice to stream movies.
Dude may download movies and shows, then watch while riding with auto steer. He should focus on monitoring equipment instead of watching movies.
Not the real world of farming. Wall Street Journal no less!!

"City Farmers"...

 

[jjp8182]

Not too much of a surprise ... I've heard of some who actually set the tractor up to make a pass down a field then hop out and go start a second tractor down the field. Then hop back on at the other end of the field, turn it around for the next pass, and repeat.

So yeah, with the levels of automation being put in some of the newer larger ag tractors it's not at all surprising this would be occurring.

The day I dread is when it's no longer possible to buy a tractor with an operator's station on the tractor itself. Hopefully that won't occur until long after I'm dead and gone ....though as fast as things have already changed in the last 20 years (and as fast as they seem to be accelerating) I wouldn't be surprised to eventually see/learn of some farms that run nothing but automated/autonomous equipment.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Saw a video of a track hoe ran remotely.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Saw a lady in the Union Pacific rail yard moving locoes with a remote control.

 

[TheMan419]

Automation in the field is a lot easier than self driving cars. Not anywhere near as many variables to deal with. So it will happen before self driving cars.

 

[sdquick]

Here is a IH "cabless" tractor from 2016...
https://www.caseih.com/apac/en-sea/...es-concept-vehicle-at-farm-progress-show.aspx

 

[newbury]

Don't believe that is the norm! Most rural areas will not support Internet in a moving tractor to stream movies. Must be a millinual thing.
I use a external antennae Bluetooth to a tablet for a spray app. Don't have enough juice to stream movies.
Dude may download movies and shows, then watch while riding with auto steer. He should focus on monitoring equipment instead of watching movies.
Not the real world of farming. Wall Street Journal no less!!

My Mobley lets me stream.

 

[Scook222]

We have a cell tower close enough we don’t use home internet anymore because the cell phone has unlimited data and all the phone lines in our are need replaced. I’m sure large scale farms could do this with gps and everything in tractors but I don’t think it’s as common to stream tv as they make it out to be. I know a few that people that farm that have 1/2 a mile to a mile rows and might fall asleep till the buzzer goes off though. I just listen to xm radio when I’m on the tractor.

 

[MossRoad]

Saw a lady in the Union Pacific rail yard moving locoes with a remote control.

They've been doing that in the U.S. since the 80's.
Remote control locomotive - Wikipedia

 

[Industrial Toys]

Interesting. Watching the video about their main central terminal, I wonder what the advantage is of using remote control. Jump on and drive the thing. Unless, it facilitates coupling with one person.

 

[MossRoad]

Interesting. Watching the video about their main central terminal, I wonder what the advantage is of using remote control. Jump on and drive the thing. Unless, it facilitates coupling with one person.

This is how I saw it being used many years ago. At small sidings in industrial areas, it requires just one person to swap out/pick up/drop off cars VS two people, one to drive the loco and the other to operate the couplers and switches, etc...

 

[MossRoad]

My wife has friends that farm about 10,000 acres and raise about 8000 hogs. Being in northern Indiana, you're never more than 1/2 mile from a road, as there's a road almost every mile north south and east west. I'll have to ask them about internet service and streaming video out in the fields next time I see them. They have some pretty sophisticated navigation systems in their machines, I know that.

 

[hks003]

This is how I saw it being used many years ago. At small sidings in industrial areas, it requires just one person to swap out/pick up/drop off cars VS two people, one to drive the loco and the other to operate the couplers and switches, etc...

I work at a paper mill, and this is indeed how they use it. We have chemicals and woodchips come in via rail and paper going out, and it's usually one guy with a remote.