New toy day

New CAT loading shovel arrived last weekend...straight to work moving concrete
Cat loading Shovel.jpg
Cat loading Shovel.jpg
 
55 txt msgs from the machine which meant the farmer had to go out into the field to sort!!
I believe the video your watching was taken last season when the Robot was in its first full year of production and yes they did have the odd problem with software. But the one which is working in the UK this year is the FD20 model with updated software and is working very well! Its managed to complete the whole field with no issues only stopping because one of the units ran out of seed! Since then the FD20 has gone through hoeing the field mutiple times. again only stopping because of battery power. On a good sunny day it has gone through the night with no issues. If anyone wants to see the FD20 working please pm me 👍
 

Finn farmer

Member
Muck spreaders and slurry tankers with 24m dribble bars can often be required, the only way for some of them to get rid of it is to have the machinery themselves and transport it out to farms
Can confirm. Friend has 50000m³ of pig sh!t to spread during summer. It takes them over three months to spread it all with a 24m³ tanker. Crazy unit, over 15000 pigs.
 

Sid

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
South Molton
And the Isobus system or are JD still saying there system is the best and won’t admit defeat and use the Isobus plug?
Had a heater issue with a JD, they had changed supplier of the electrical part since.
Not only did I have to buy the replacement part but also an adaptor to connect the new part. £27 IIRC.
They don't always get it right.

Can’t understand why they don’t fit multi couplers to tractors, they put them on combines for a few weeks a year
The issue being some people like different functions in different spools.
Electronic ones you can switch around now so it should be less of an issue
 

quattro

Member
Location
scotland
Had a heater issue with a JD, they had changed supplier of the electrical part since.
Not only did I have to buy the replacement part but also an adaptor to connect the new part. £27 IIRC.
They don't always get it right.


The issue being some people like different functions in different spools.
Electronic ones you can switch around now so it should be less of an issue
But if it had the machine end with std couplers you could swap them round to suit and still use it on std spools
 

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