A Unique Model G

This is interesting if it really can do the work of a gas model. Price is tooooo high.

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/grd/2243453639.html

eldon...you better buy both of them! they'd work good fer you! you could even put a radio on them....and hear it!! lol

That's pretty neat - would like to see one.

I know someone who has the motor and adapter sitting on the shelf....batteries are very expensive !

I want to build one some time.. There are videos of them working on youtube... going from 10HP+- to a 12HP electric motor is a huge jump! lol

A fella could sneak up on the weeds before they hear you coming. Probaly all you would hear are those poor weeds screaming and gasping......

I wonder what happens to all the sheet metal, radiators and engines off all these?

Gary in da UP wrote: A fella could sneak up on the weeds before they hear you coming. Probaly all you would hear are those poor weeds screaming and gasping......

Good point, Gary. I hate it when a weed dodges my cultivator.

Morton,

Is it preferable that Americans just do nothing, or do you still believe in good old American innovation. Personally, I am all for farmers tinkering around and doing real world research down on the farm. 

I have a greens harvester that is battery powered that I charge with a solar collector.  It is pretty dang nice having machinery I can run inside of a polytunnel and not have to worry about dying from the exhaust.

You might be looking at it as people trying to be green, which you obviously feel is stupid. I see it as a way to be less dependent on Saudi oil...risk management. The more ways I can provide power  on farm the less  exposure I have to "Headline Risk".

A prime example of what I am talking about is with hog feed.. All of the local grain in the valley I live in  was all sold out as of January. People feeding hogs the standard way Have seen their feed prices double in the last month. Talked to farmer yesterday...he was getting rolled wheat and barley from Land O' Lakes for $150/ton, now it is $318/ton.  I checked 16% hog meal last month and it was from $400-560/ton.

I don't rely on grain, corn or soybeas, I pasture them and they get a ration of grass/clover pellets with fresh veg scraps mixed in.  While everyone else is scrambling for feed, I have 5 acres of prime pasture with lush ryegrass, winter wheat, beets and kale ready to go.  Kale is 16-20% protein and wheat grass is 24+. Beets provide a lot of energy.  If everyone just follows the herd and does what they are told is the right thing to do, it becomes easy to cripple a certain segment of society.  JMO


Edited by singingpig - 03 Mar 2011 at 6:48pm

Hmm..if you can reverse the electric motor...you'd have a three speed reverse too. Not sure what you'd do with that trick though.    

singingpig wrote: beeman wrote: Hmm..if you can reverse the electric motor...you'd have a three speed reverse too. Not sure what you'd do with that trick though.     Drive it down the road in 3rd gear reverse lol. That would really make the neighbors stare.

look at all those little elect. fork lifts that they use in stores like wally world, sams, home depot and such...they have one BIG battery...costs area of $5000. to buy a new battery for them. and it takes a forklift to lift them outta the forklift! that's why you see so many of those forklifts at auctions, not feasible to replace just the battery, they just go buy another new forklift with a new battery! i have seen alot of them sell for $100-$500 dollars each. maybe they can be converted over to gas/diesel? next time i see one at auction, i'm gonna buy it for the mast!