Autonomous tractor

[Scribus]

Isn't it John Deere that have the driverless grain chaser bin, seem to remember something about that?
That'll be a bit of you Clive, perhaps one less driver at harvest time?

Fendt have also demo'ed a system of two tractors being driven by one driver. Not sure what became of that.

 

[kiwi pom]

I can’t see how these autonomous machines are going to avoid wet holes,telegraph posts and all sorts of other obstacles.i may be proven wrong in time.id also worry about hackers shutting machines down if they are Runnng on 5/6/7g or what ever will be available at the time.i know there is a really serious shortage of farm staff as there is with plant ops and lorry drivers.with the lack of margins in our game things won’t change anytime soon
Nick...

Machines running in the UK with not a driver in sight. The pikeys will have em in a container and away before they even make one round in the paddock.

 

[homefarm]

I was in touch with them 2 years ago ;-)

When do you think we will see it here?

 

[Scribus]

I have seen it too and it is not nice, but you cannot put the clock back 100yrs and start again.
There are places in rural Canada on maps which barely exist when you get there.
I listened to an RBauction were a house and yard made $30,000 and a 60 ft airdrill made $300,000.
A house has no value if people do not want to live there, hard to imagine in UK.

Quite so, any attempt to do so would most probably end in violence, but let's be honest about why there might be a shortage of people to farm the land.

 

[Scribus]

Machines running in the UK with not a driver in sight. The pikeys will have em in a container and away before they even make one round in the paddock.

Good point, what's their value as scrap?

 

[Scribus]

Machines running in the UK with not a driver in sight. The pikeys will have em in a container and away before they even make one round in the paddock.

And kids climbing on them for the craic....

 

[renewablejohn]

I’m not sure if it still exists but If you look back on the british farming forum about 15-20 years ago you will find a post by a guy called Clive who had just got a very early 8000t tractor with auto-steer

He posted about what a game changer it was and how it would be almost standard on arable tractors within a decade

Others replied that it was a gimmick, not needed as they could drive perfectly without it, They worried it would replace skilled men , said it was too expensive to ever become widely adopted etc ........

Let’s revisit this thread in 2040 !

More like revisit in 2025.

 

[Scribus]

I’m not sure if it still exists but If you look back on the british farming forum about 15-20 years ago you will find a post by a guy called Clive who had just got a very early 8000t tractor with auto-steer

He posted about what a game changer it was and how it would be almost standard on arable tractors within a decade

Others replied that it was a gimmick, not needed as they could drive perfectly without it, They worried it would replace skilled men , said it was too expensive to ever become widely adopted etc ........

Let’s revisit this thread in 2040 !

Roadless celebrate their centenary this year, or would of if they were still around, they started off by building tracked vehicles and conversion kits for tractors. Hardly anything new there.

So what % of tractors operating in the UK have autosteer and what do you expect to change by 2040?

 

[stevedave]

What happened to the 8000t JD tractor?

 

[Scribus]

More like revisit in 2025.

So what dramatic changes do you expect within six years?

 

[Scribus]

What happened to the 8000t JD tractor?

Still trying to catch up with the Quadtrac.

 

[Clive]

When do you think we will see it here?

2121 ...... maybe

 

[Clive]

What happened to the 8000t JD tractor?

We had 2 of them (neither were jds finest moment really !) - disappeared a long time ago, replaced by a 600hop cat that was replaced by a 240 ho fendt ! Different times and different power needs back then

 

[renewablejohn]

So what dramatic changes do you expect within six years?

Its already available doing the tedious jobs.

As I grow in standard IBC containers then warehouse robots would be ideal for my usage.

 

[Radish]

https://twitter.com/efarmerdot/status/1129818830350372864
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[Scribus]

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https://twitter.com/efarmerdot/status/1129996167784411136
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There are lots of things that, given enough enthusiasm and capital, can be done if you try hard enough. Making tractors trundle up and down open fields is one of them, but that doesn't mean to say that it will ever gain wide acceptance in the industry or there is even a need for it. Just because the techies think it clever is not enough to convince a large proportion of farmers, the wow factor has faded when it comes to digital.

One particular example is a well known ferti spreader brand. The company will tell you how it's all about super dooper broadcasting widths and section control with even wind speed and direction being taken into account. Wonderful stuff indeed, but the local dealer around here serving mainly dairy farms has sold well over a dozen of their standard machines this season with not one electronic gizzmo attached to any of them.

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

https://twitter.com/efarmerdot/status/1129818830350372864
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https://twitter.com/efarmerdot/status/1129996167784411136
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No disrespect to Brian T (he’s on here btw) but AgOpenGPS is autosteer. Not fully autonomous tractors. Or am I missing something?