[AT] Enormous grain wagon

[ustonThomas Mehrkam]

 It would make a great yard ornament if you had a huge front yard. Hook it up to the 720 during a holiday session put Santa in the drivers seat and fake presents in the back. :-}   Other than that it is just too darn big!
Speaking of big Agriculture:
I use to work for Electric Sorting Machines. One machine I designed was in field tomato sorters.  They were used in California for canning tomatoes. A 18 wheeler pulling a big trailer drove beside the harvester.  The tomatoes were harvested, machine sorted, sorted by hand on a conveyor by about 10 farm workers.  Good fruit went directly into a big trailer behind the truck bad fruit went back on the ground. Cut the labor by more than 50%.
In the cannery we had a tomato sorter that would sort the tomatoes again. The tomatoes were transported in a flume of water onto an inclined conveyors made out of rollers.  We used a video camera to look at the tomatoes they were rotated.  Looked all around the fruit.  A computer tracked individual tomatoes and kept track of defects on each tomato.  The fruit would drop off the end of the convener and the bad ones would be removed by a blast of air.  The good ones dropped into another flume of water. This was in the 80's .  I wonder what they have by now?


    On Monday, June 8, 2020, 6:36:48 AM CDT, deanvp at att.net <deanvp at att.net> wrote:  
 
 
I think my 720D might be able to pull it….empty.

  

Dean VP

Snohomish, WA 98290

  

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Just curious. Do you have a antique tractor that will pull that. :-}

  

  

On Saturday, June 6, 2020, 7:07:32 PM CDT, <deanvp at att.net> wrote: 

  

  

In my home area in NW Iowa there is Manufacturer by the name of Demco.  Here is one of their latest protypes. See attached.  2200 bushel capacity.    Is your farm big enough for this? Cheaper by the dozen.

  

  

Dean VP

Snohomish, WA 98290

  

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