Tractor of the Future...
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Topic: Tractor of the Future...
Posted By: GBACBFan
Subject: Tractor of the Future...
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2011 at 7:02pm
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Valtra Robo Trac is a semi-autonomous tractor for vineyards, coffee growers, orchards and nurseries. Robot is able to do pre-programmed tasks and does not require human intervention.
The color is good!
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Posted By: R.W
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2011 at 7:05pm
| isnt running a tractor part of farming and i dont like electronics that much! |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2011 at 7:14pm
| I'd have to agree with R.W. on this |
Posted By: Russ-neia
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2011 at 9:02pm
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Now, if that is a cannon in the center of the hood, sign me up! LOL ------------- The innovators offer what others will imitate. |
Posted By: Byron WC in SW Wi
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2011 at 9:10pm
| To bad it's an AGCO product. Valtra is a good reminder of the chaos that is AGCO. You can get a Valtra in what seven different colors including silver, green, red, orange, etc. Why couldn't they have done that with AGCO? Anyway, like I said. To bad it's an AGCO product or should I say concept. |
Posted By: Rfdeere
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2011 at 10:15pm
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They might want to turn the tires around. ------------- Randy Freshour,Member Indiana AC Partners, http://www.rumelyallis.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.rumelyallis.com |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2011 at 12:51am
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Leave it to AGCO to come up with a tractor few people want and even fewer can afford!
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Posted By: Dave in il
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2011 at 10:04am
| Don't laugh. In 10 to 15 years, probably less, those type of tractors will be common in the midwest, 1 guy can till and plant thousands of acres with no hired help and almost never step in a field. And the tractor will run 24/7 because it doesn't need lights to see, doesn't get tired, it'll never ask for a day off or a raise. That's "progress" fewer people farming more acres through technology. That's the American way of farming. There will be a generation talking about how grampa used to make a living on only 2500 acres and he did with tractors you had to DRIVE, how quaint. |
Posted By: R.W
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2011 at 10:13am
| please dont say that dave some electronic stuff is good but I will not be one to use self automated tractors sometimes i wish i could go back in time back when tractores were tractors NOT COMPUTERS! |
Posted By: John (C-IL)
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2011 at 11:57am
Actually, that depends which end is the front, they me be on the right way.
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Rfdeere wrote:Posted By: Spud
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2011 at 12:31pm
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RW. Actually driving a horse while working a land is part of farming!
You cannot stand in the way of progress.
I agree that it would not be much fun though.
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Posted By: R.W
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2011 at 2:13pm
| spud i know horses were first befor tractors, but mom, dad, and my sister all like horses and so we have them, but personley i really dont like them , but tractors i like so thats why i said that. |
Posted By: Gerald J.
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2011 at 3:21pm
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One thing about a well trained team is that you didn't have to turn a crank, pull a lever, or push a pedal to change speed or direction, you just talked to them. Like while picking corn by hand, you didn't have to stop picking, climb on the tractor, start it, put it in gear let out the clutch, move it a wagon's length, then park it, climb down and go back to picking, all you had to say was "git up", followed by "whoa" without breaking your picking rhythm. So I've observed, not by doing. But I have worked horses a little. One bad thing was that when the horse figured out it could hurt you really bad without trying that it sometimes did, like leaning on you in the stall or standing on your toes. I suspect horse caused injuries on the pre tractor farm were regular and why the horse replacement tractors like the Fordson sold so well. They probably cost less to by than it cost to feed the teams they replaced. I recall seeing that something like a third of a farm's crops went to feed and pasture the horses. That's a lot of expense. Gerald J. |
Posted By: jminpa
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2011 at 3:43pm
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I agree with R.W. I already call new tractors Computers on wheels, and trucks are the same way anymore. I believe the cannon thing in the middle is a camera for moving around |
Posted By: Dave in il
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2011 at 4:07pm
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I'm not being pessimistic but that's been the result of our national farm policy. 40 acres and a mule, 80 acres an a team, 120 acres and a hired man, 160 acres and a tractor, no horses or hired men. In the 60's 640 acres was a good sized farm by the early 80's you "needed" a 1000 acres acres to make a good living.
Today most of the few neighbors who farm have 1500 or 2000 acres or more, or like me work off the farm to supplement their "hobby". The big guys around me farm 5000 acres or more and are always looking for the next piece of ground even if they cut somebodies throat to get it. They drive 40 or 50 miles for a couple hundred acres, big machinery and GPS helps them get it done in a timley manor. They'll be the ones who will buy these tractors.
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Posted By: Rick of HopeIN
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2011 at 5:23pm
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looks like a 'pointing device' to me
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Posted By: GBACBFan
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2011 at 8:05pm
Additional pics...
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Posted By: Spud
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2011 at 10:38pm
| RW. I come from a horsy family too. I was always the machinery guy though. I definately prefer the tractor myself. |