Yup going for the cheap software joke as I was a controls engineer for a couple decades.
I have been reading a fair amount on here lately and wanted to introduce myself. I have a small farm in New Hampshire in the USA. Moat Brook Farm which is where the MBF in my handle comes from.
I hay about 100 acres of fields a year and have 14 beef cows just a small one man show.
I am planing on building an electric tractor out of a couple old case ingersoll garden tractors. The idea is to have it be 4wd articulated. I have a case ingersoll 448 with a 10hp diesel engine I swapped onto it about 8 years ago I guess. I use it all the time for wood splitting raking hay and rototiller work. Very handy little tractor.
The best part of those tractors is that the motor simply runs a hydraulic pump so if you spin the pump you have swapped the engine to something else. Not the most efficient vehicles but portable hydraulics is always useful around a farm.
Anyway I figured I would say hello and mention what I am starting to collect cells for.
I have been reading a fair amount on here lately and wanted to introduce myself. I have a small farm in New Hampshire in the USA. Moat Brook Farm which is where the MBF in my handle comes from.
I hay about 100 acres of fields a year and have 14 beef cows just a small one man show.
I am planing on building an electric tractor out of a couple old case ingersoll garden tractors. The idea is to have it be 4wd articulated. I have a case ingersoll 448 with a 10hp diesel engine I swapped onto it about 8 years ago I guess. I use it all the time for wood splitting raking hay and rototiller work. Very handy little tractor.
The best part of those tractors is that the motor simply runs a hydraulic pump so if you spin the pump you have swapped the engine to something else. Not the most efficient vehicles but portable hydraulics is always useful around a farm.
Anyway I figured I would say hello and mention what I am starting to collect cells for.