Would you buy... [autonomous rock picker]

[Klause]

A robotic fully autonomous rock picker?

A machine that follows your drill around the field, picks up rocks, and deposits them at a predetermined spot?


Doing some market research here.

Comments please!

[the big wheel]

There was a previous company ..... I think the name was Mexican male. Lol
But seriously no I wouldn't but then I don't have serious rock to contend with either.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Unless you have a lot of rocks I think it would need to be targeted to be efficient and effective. Perhaps I knock sensor on every drill shank which could Identify the location of individual rocks on GPS. In my situation I wouldn't want The compaction of a Machine which tries to cover every square foot. Or do you think you could ID them with cameras on the back of the drill or with drones?

[Klause]

There's a lot of IP here and I don't want it to end up like bintelligence that another company stole my plans and commercialized it with government money (yes I'm still bitter about that).



It doesn't cover the whole field. The seeder unit is outfitted with a specialist module that detects rocks.

The "picker" bot sits at the edge of the field (it "clamps" to your drill for transport), and when the sensors trigger it'll grab that rock (or if there's very few it'll wait until you tell it to go grab them... connecting the dots as quickly as possible with minimal driving).

The design sits on two tracks low ground pressure no compaction.

[grassfarmer]

If you're going for the Scottish market you'd better mass produce them and make them cheap. With the number of rocks there you'd need a trailer load of them at a time or the one would still be picking rocks when you came back to seed the next year!

[SASKFARMER3]

That’s what you have kids for. Your first will be available to do that in less than 13 years enjoy

[Rareearth]

Yes
Yes

I used to dream about a laser and blasting them, ( like hitting a sign with a beer bottle 30 years ago)

Ag in motion has a rock , bush , organic mater destroyer ( 10 feet wide? And expensive, can’t remember)

[grassfarmer]

Yes

Ag in motion has a rock , bush , organic mater destroyer ( 10 feet wide? And expensive, can’t remember)

Neighbours have one of those, it's called a track hoe! Digging out all the trees/bush around the sloughs. Guess they must want the sloughs to get bigger.

[SASKFARMER3]

And in your mind grass why in eastern Manitoba would getting rid of willows and clean up land increase the slough size. See no snow to catch less water less slough no cattails water issue done. Normal years works great but a Scotsman maybe doesn’t know canada. Oh wait your a expert

[dalek]

There's a lot of IP here and I don't want it to end up like bintelligence that another company stole my plans and commercialized it with government money (yes I'm still bitter about that).



It doesn't cover the whole field. The seeder unit is outfitted with a specialist module that detects rocks.

The "picker" bot sits at the edge of the field (it "clamps" to your drill for transport), and when the sensors trigger it'll grab that rock (or if there's very few it'll wait until you tell it to go grab them... connecting the dots as quickly as possible with minimal driving).

The design sits on two tracks low ground pressure no compaction.

It would have to cover the whole field here. Many fields we can walk from rock to rock across the field

[sofa.king]

Most of the rocks are in their and your scottish head.

[Ache4Acres]

It is a great idea, don’t let the nancies tell you any different. Technology is going to change everything done in Ag in the next 10 years....magnitudes more than it already has.

Patent first...figure out later.

Good luck.

[grassfarmer]

And in your mind grass why in eastern Manitoba would getting rid of willows and clean up land increase the slough size. See no snow to catch less water less slough no cattails water issue done. Normal years works great but a Scotsman maybe doesn’t know canada. Oh wait your a expert

Sloughs by definition are low spots where water runs to. You take out the large trees/bushes around them that suck up a tremendous amount of water, replace it with a crop that'll do poorly/grow foxtail barley and it'll be wetter for sure. Certainly is on the other places they've done it - OK though as crop insurance will come through and pay them for seeding through low spots that should never be seeded anyway. Poor job that the taxpayer gets to fund this environmental destruction though.

[WiltonRanch]

Seems we don’t spend much time like in the past picking stones but more time digging rocks and deadheads. No peas no need to pick pebbles. If we catch an opportunity we run the cat around digging the big guys. All our land attached so this is possible. I like the autonomous rock picker idea. Great use of tech to take care of a mundane job. Most no till land doesn’t grow rocks like summerfallow so your concept would keep up to most moderately stony ground. If it looks like god spent the seventh day throwing rocks at your land maybe not.

[blackpowder]

This type of technology will be prevalent in generations to come.
Why not a rockpicker??
I'd rent it if I was still farming.