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<blockquote data-quote="PSQ" data-source="post: 6276672" data-attributes="member: 11374"><p>A driver is a lot cheaper / hour than the additional tech an monitoring required for automation , is able to service the machinery, can spot a problem that technology wouldn’t easily detect, will be able to keep the operation moving through 99% of eventualities, will be able to deal with other essential farming tasks on wet days (etc) and all for C.£10/hour.</p><p></p><p>An automated tractor needs someone else to service and repair it which some businesses would delegate to a dealer at £75/hour, it can’t spot a missing disc /coulter / buggered bearing, it can spot a blocked seed pipe etc but it can’t resolve any issues without human intervention which necessitates taking manpower from another task (so 2 operations stopped), it might not detect early signs of a major mechanical issue, so that ‘stitch in time’ turns into a £15k bill and 3 weeks waiting for the repair to complete.</p><p></p><p>You’d almost think some ‘bosses’ cant stand having anyone else ‘playing with their toys’...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PSQ, post: 6276672, member: 11374"] A driver is a lot cheaper / hour than the additional tech an monitoring required for automation , is able to service the machinery, can spot a problem that technology wouldn’t easily detect, will be able to keep the operation moving through 99% of eventualities, will be able to deal with other essential farming tasks on wet days (etc) and all for C.£10/hour. An automated tractor needs someone else to service and repair it which some businesses would delegate to a dealer at £75/hour, it can’t spot a missing disc /coulter / buggered bearing, it can spot a blocked seed pipe etc but it can’t resolve any issues without human intervention which necessitates taking manpower from another task (so 2 operations stopped), it might not detect early signs of a major mechanical issue, so that ‘stitch in time’ turns into a £15k bill and 3 weeks waiting for the repair to complete. You’d almost think some ‘bosses’ cant stand having anyone else ‘playing with their toys’... [/QUOTE]
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