AC On A Wire?
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Topic: AC On A Wire?
Posted By: Unit3
Subject: AC On A Wire?
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2017 at 12:48pm
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I heard a story this morning from a long time Oliver mechanic that back in the day AC was playing around with a tractor that could follow a wire buried under ground. Any one ever heard of this? ------------- 2-8070FWA PS/8050PS/7080/7045PS/200/D15-II/2-WD45/WD/3-WC/UC/C |
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Posted By: farmboy520
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2017 at 1:09pm
| I have heard of something like this but I don't remember who it was for |
Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2017 at 1:15pm
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I remember in high school ag class (mid 1980's) the teacher was saying that something like that was coming in the sorta distant future. I guess gps wasn't on anyone's mind yet. ------------- -- --- .... .- -- -- .- -.. / .-- .- ... / .- / -- ..- .-. -.. . .-. .. -. --. / -.-. .... .. .-.. -.. / .-. .- .--. .. ... - Wink I am a Russian Bot |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2017 at 1:38pm
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yeah the technology was correct for the time,though burying wire would be a pain, too shallow and oopsy, look what the plow snagged !
------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: Gary
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2017 at 3:48pm
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That technology started in the Automotive Assembly Plants in the early 80's. Bury the wire in the concrete floor. Vehicle was referred to an 'AGV', short for 'Automatic Guided Vehicle'. Gary |
Posted By: Ted in NE-OH
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2017 at 6:26pm
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Back in the 50's or 60's Popular Mechanics ran a story that all our roads would have wires in them and the cars would follow them. Guess it did not happen. ------------- CA, WD, C, 3 Bs, 2 Gs, WC, I-400, 914 |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2017 at 6:42pm
| A-C may have had that, but I know for sure Ford had a prototype like that in the 50's called "the sniffer". |
Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2017 at 8:12pm
| Allis tried all kinds of stuff, would've been fun in the HAYDAY of it all, didn't they have a remoute controlled heavy equipment tractor called THE SPOOK? |
Posted By: JayIN
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2017 at 5:00am
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I think ------------- sometimes I walk out to my shop and look around and think "Who's the idiot that owns this place?" |
Posted By: JayIN
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2017 at 5:01am
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I think Cummins uses that technology to deliver parts to the line at their Walesboro plant outside of Columbus.Robotic parts containers. ------------- sometimes I walk out to my shop and look around and think "Who's the idiot that owns this place?" |
Posted By: grinder220
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2017 at 6:43am
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DougG wrote:Posted By: Dusty MI
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2017 at 6:57am
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Oldsmobile in Lansing, MI had the system in their plant. It would stop if something was parked in front of it, or even if a small board got dropped in it's path. Dusty ------------- 917 H, '48 G, '65 D-10 series III "Allis Express" |