Wow...

[farmaholic]

I just saw over a million dollars(tractor, drill and cart) drive past the field I'm seeding.

The roads are hardly big enough for today's equipment.

What would happen if two of these rigs would meet each other on the road with no where to pull over or an approach into a field to turn into and let the other guy pass. It is almost time for pilot vehicles.

I asked a Machinery Co rep when they're going to stop building them bigger, his response was when Producers stop buying the next biggest one.

[checking]

If that happens pharma, it will be the same farmer meeting his second unit.

Give me my bots!

[helmsdale]

New bourgaults are nowhere near legal max height for transport down AB highways. Any transport company moving them requires permits from provincial govt and local power companies require measurements and then tell you what day and time you can move it down their designated route. 50km moves can double or more. Legally speaking as a farmer you're supposed to get a high load permit to move them. No one does. Your ASS is gonna wonder whether its reamed or bored if you bring down a line.

[farmaholic]

I think the farmer with two of those won't have to be in each other's vicinity.... or will be more organized and will know what each is doing and where they're going. I hope.

[farmaholic]

Come to think of it...probably 1.5 million +

[farmaholic]

Chequing, there's guys here seeding section fields. Maybe even bigger where there was never a road built on the road allowances. I just have to wonder how efficient and timely a field of bots could do it in comparison to today's behemoths. Can grain prices even support the technology? And if grain prices have to rise to pay for it, will consumers be able to afford to pay for it.

[ajl]

These ridiculous monstrosities would not exist if not for the last ten years of money printing and zero interest rates. No way they are economic without cheap debt. As rates rise they disappear but the economy is now on permanent life support these days.

[vvalk]

Come to think of it...probably 1.5 million +

$500-$550k for 580 quad trac depending on multiple discount
$600k - $650k for 86ft bourgout with 950 tank depending on volumes. Never as much as coffee shop thinks yet obviously still a lot of money

[farmaholic]

$500-$550k for 580 quad trac depending on multiple discount
$600k - $650k for 86ft bourgout with 950 tank depending on volumes. Never as much as coffee shop thinks yet obviously still a lot of money

That was my wild ass guess vvalk. Guess I was closer the first time. The high end of your numbers come in between my two guestimates...yup, still a pile of money.

Sounds like you shopped for that stuff?

[biglentil]

That was my wild ass guess vvalk. Guess I was closer the first time. The high end of your numbers come in between my two guestimates...yup, still a pile of money.

Sounds like you shopped for that stuff?

Farma were those 1300 tanks?