$2.7 Million Dollar Remote Controlled Tractor

here we go folks my heart is pounding right now the price tag I believe for everything is about $2.7 million this is the future of farming right here good morning everybody it is the start of planting season but we are not on my farm we are at a neighboring farm right now because we are here to witness a brand new piece of technology firsthand something I have only ever seen before at a farm show this is called a NEX at a machine it is supposed to be the next latest greatest thing in farming technology especially for equipment because the thing you see behind me can plant it can spray it can spread dry fertilizer and it can Harvest how can one machine do all of those very very different tasks hopefully we're going to find out today so it is hooked on to a planter right now the cab is unlike anything I've ever seen before and we are going to witness it plant today but stay tuned because later this year it's going to come back and harvest the same field so we'll get to do a followup see how it does we are putting this thing right next to what you guys are used to seeing me plant with we are going to be comparing it directly in the exact same field at the same time same planting conditions to a John Deere tractor pulling a bar that was made at a local shop with John Deer row units and precision planting equipment on it so which one is better we will find out all right before we get going let's just do a little bit of a walk around look at the tires on this thing look at the size comparison to me are you kidding me these things are huge so we're starting off with some very large floater tires I believe you can get it with tracks as well so here's the planting setup we have under it this thing just hooks right on it's an 18 row planter at 30 in spacing essentially it works just like any other planter but I've been told the singulation that it's able to get is amazing and that would be the ability to put down a single seed and then a certain distance away another Single Seed you're not getting any doubles or any skips but just look at the big blower fans that's how the seat is actually getting down air is blowing and sucking and putting the seeds into the ground and so many hydraulic because this thing actually the tires pick up and turn and goes down the road like this all in a line next come around and let's check out the cab again just so different than a drawn Deer tractor cab so this thing is able to turn around and there's a small ladder up to it but the cab is actually able to come all the way down to the ground so that you can get into it and then come up I think the chair it turns around so you can drive it this way but then when you're in the field and the tires are turned this way the cab will turn around and you will be driving it from this far side so instead of being in a tractor cab and looking behind you at the planter you're actually looking at the planter beside you what a strange angle that must be all right so what you see behind me is what we're going to be comparing to this is probably unlike a lot of other things you're going to see this bar was fabricated locally it is a 24 row mounted planter this thing is a work of art truly then once the wings are down the other sides are just going to kick back planter is hooked on to a John Deere 8360r you guys know how much I love the r series tractors the tractor has tanks on the sides but also in the front and the seed for this planter is kept in that yellow tank back there all right let's see this Beast of machine in action [Music] w [Music] all right take a look up here in the cab this is unlike any tractor cab I've been in and I think that's probably because it is not a tractor in here yeah I can control my cabin oh my goodness I can put it it's a roller coaster look at this this is way better than trying to look behind you this is great pretty smooth ride yeah oh we're spinning around boy I hope you guys don't get motion sick easily at we keev with with the Lea bus it's okay yeah oh a wild ride out here my heart is pounding right now how big an engine does this thing have in it two engines two engines yeah oh my one on both sides it's two Motors one has 550 horsepowers my goodness but now we drive only you can see with one Motors and we are going right now how many miles hour K hour 12 K 12 km an hour we're going right now oh my goodness this whole thing is remote controlled you can do everything with this here drive hookup inflence especially to hookup implements gotcha um because you have to look at the hooks and everything mhm you can move the machine the whole machine with this one here so when you go to unhook the planter and hook up the Harvester you're going to be using this right here yes and you have to look forward as in this side now oh my goodness yes okay wait so if I like move this forward you hold it the button the big button hold it and press the next side yeah oh that feels very weird 6 km an hour and I can see all my cameras here everything that I've got going so we move forward just a little bit Yeah you can go with six okay so wait till we get straight so not only is this new for me planting in a next St machine tell me about like right you can put it now but I am planting my my neighbor's field this is not my field okay let's bump it up let's go a little faster so thank you Todd for letting me plant your field for you this is so fun crank it up here we go now we're rolling yeah now you can with this switch you can this knob is my cab moving and so I can just like move it back like this we are planting backwards guys okay I'm going to I'm going to turn around again so just hold on can hold it no problem see now this looks more familiar for planting I'm facing the way that I'm going down the road this is the future of farming right here I have to say this is much different than any other monitor it would take me a little bit of getting used to to see what kind of numbers I want to be looking at on my screen it is kind of nice that it all is in one and you don't have to flip through to different pages I see all my numbers right here all at the same time same place okay ready now up Y and there we go up and I've already approved my turn and so it's just going to turn right around for me we've got cameras over every Tire this line This is where we're going the green is where we're planting look at all of the stats you can see on this machine I am just looking directly at the row units and where it's planting reminds me a little bit of a fent tractor where you're just driving driv in with this joystick here you can program all of these numbers to be different buttons with what you're doing but this moving it forward and moving it back is how you switch between forward and reverse and choose how fast you'd like to go I don't know if Grant Knight can afford this given that the price tag I believe for everything is about $2.7 million but I have to say this is very cool and probably the way that farming is going so it's very cool to be able to see this thing firsthand we are on The Cutting Edge edge of Technology this is progress on the farm this is a lot different than the caas 4020 that you've seen in the old days so here he is controlling it exclusively from that remote control look at that there is nobody in the cab just a giant remote controlled tractor it takes a lot to make an R series John de tractor at 24 rope planter look small but but somehow the next at accomplishes that and here it goes down the road it just looks wrong he described it as driving a school bus and a wheel loader down the road but combined into one it has that rear steer but it's just so long what would you guys do if you saw this thing going down the road by you it's not that wide it's not that wide at all and I believe what he was saying and I remember this from being in Germany is that all of their equipment has to be licensed with a license plate and has to be able to drive down its own lane in the road so everything folds up really small and so I could see this fitting down a Highway Lane [Music] we are saying goodbye to this thing until Harvest it's done its planting here it's been super cool to get to see it from the outside and the inside I can't wait to see what it looks like with a harvester hooked up to it that's right plant attachment will come off Harvester go on and we'll get to watch it harvest the crops that we planted here today it's been very cool thank you next at and we will see you guys soon so at this point in the video you'll notice that I didn't go ride in the John Deere tractor or really talk much more about what it did in the field and that's because comparing these two machines side by side was very much like comparing apples and oranges John de your tractor and that planter setup is made specific specifically for this area this is the NEX out machine's first time definitely in this area of the United States but pretty much it's brand new to the United States in general and so the John Deere planter and tractor today did way better out in the field it's set up in acres and inches and it's what we're used to running and so things just got going a lot smoother next that machine everything is in hectares and centimeters and so if you were in the field with me on this day there was a lot of behind the scenes conversion and that took a little while this machine is not really set up to be in the United States yet I think it will be but it just took some getting going the true comparison we're going to see which one really did better won't happen until we see the plants come up and really until Harvest but luckily the machine is coming back with the combine hooked up to it and we are going to be able to harvest this field side by side and I feel like that's where we're going going to get more of a true comparison who will win I guess we're going to have to wait till Harvest to see I know that's probably not what you're wanting to hear but just truly if we can do a true comparison we need to have numbers for our data not just what's more comfortable for us or what we're used to we need to see the data during Harvest so before you go I just have a quick question to ask you if you guys remember when I first started farming I actually owned a few cows I have since sold them but an IDE idea that's kind of been mulling over in the back of my mind is the idea of buying a few more cows and then maybe starting a custom beef business I have a really good butcher close by to me and I thought it'd be really cool to not only be able to show you guys the whole process every step of the way of farming but also every step of the way for where your beef comes from and then I could be able to provide to you a cow I could sell you guys ground beef I could sell you steaks and you guys would be able to see the cows that you guys are buying beef from I know you guys have seen me do some ads for like custom boxes where you can either buy ingredients to make food or just buy food online and it gets delivered straight to your doorstep and the more I did ads for those people I started thinking how come as a farmer I can't just sell you guys' food directly to you so instead of doing an ad for someone else I would be doing an ad for myself and you guys could be buying food directly from me now of course everything would be certified and safe and packed correctly but I just think it would be really cool if I could sell food directly to you guys just an idea I haven't made really any action steps towards it but I just kind of wanted to gauge your guys' interest if I sold custom beef would you guys buy it is buying beef online something you'd be interested in uh please comment below I would love to know your thoughts because this is something I'm kind of interested in so I just want to get you guys' thoughts on that idea thanks for watching today's video I HED you learned something because I definitely did we'll see you in the next one bye

Channel: Laura Farms

Views: 524,876

Keywords: Farm, Agriculture, Equipment, Vlog, John deere, tractor, machinery, construction, truck, informational, learning, work, german, technology

Id: CB7EEKh_w5o

Length: 15min 2sec (902 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 24 2024