Is it Dangerous?
We moan a lot here in the U.K. about Fracking and the consequences of it causing minor Earthquakes or damaging the water table? Yet the same machinery is used across the United States and is bringing in millions of dollars to the U.S. economy meaning that they are no longer at the mercy of OPEC and the Middle-East oil reserves?
Russia does the same thing, using the same drilling machines, but it has the advantage of being the largest landmass in the world and has many resources! It to has the largest of everything now, oil, coal, petroleum and gas at least for the next 3-400 years and trade with China will insure a reliable customer!
Environmentalists do not always have the best intentions on the cards for the general population of Britain over they wanting to live in their idyllic world?
Showing posts with label machinery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label machinery. Show all posts
Tuesday, 22 January 2019
Tuesday, 11 September 2018
Farm Machinery. Part-One.
Picking?
There has been much advancement in farming over the last seventy years with the introduction of automation and the cutting of the workforce. Seventy years ago it took fifty people to do a good job on an average sized farm, but today this is now down to less than a handful!
One area that has not as yet been effective is that of picking fruit, lifting vegetables is fairly fine but fruit is more difficult than it would seem? The robotics can do the job with apples and larger fruits, but soft fruit has not yet come up to the standards of the human touch or hand.
Wither Brexit comes or not the immigration policies on restricting European labour may decimate much of the British countryside when it come to asparagus and soft fruits? Many farms will have to stop growing strawberries, because it is well established as a fact that young people in this land see picking as below their demeanour?
There has been much advancement in farming over the last seventy years with the introduction of automation and the cutting of the workforce. Seventy years ago it took fifty people to do a good job on an average sized farm, but today this is now down to less than a handful!
One area that has not as yet been effective is that of picking fruit, lifting vegetables is fairly fine but fruit is more difficult than it would seem? The robotics can do the job with apples and larger fruits, but soft fruit has not yet come up to the standards of the human touch or hand.
Wither Brexit comes or not the immigration policies on restricting European labour may decimate much of the British countryside when it come to asparagus and soft fruits? Many farms will have to stop growing strawberries, because it is well established as a fact that young people in this land see picking as below their demeanour?
Tuesday, 6 March 2018
Transport in Africa. Part-Two.
Adaption and Innovation!
We tend to think that the so called third world only gets the hand outs of our advanced world, but this is far from the truth! There are the cases of ex-colonial assistance, but many nations have opted to buy what they want from Japan as in the case of the Toyota pick-up.
It today is the most prevalent vehicle on the planet for its known versatility and operational capability, Land rover and the Mercedes Unimog follow quickly behind. Hino is perhaps one of the most common type of trucks that despite being of the late 60' early 70's era is still viable today as it was them?
Cost determines who has what, but with the possibility of mining and the discovery of fuels the wealth is pouring in to the coffers to be spent on the latest machinery from Volvo and many other expensive manufacturers.
Home grown manufacturing in South-Africa if it continues despite the new political situation will see a tremendous growth in supplying the continent with all types of machinery?
The formation of the African Union (UN) is a driving force behind the need for newer types of existing Atlas military equipment and also the various RSA BAE ground vehicles which not many know about outside!
We tend to think that the so called third world only gets the hand outs of our advanced world, but this is far from the truth! There are the cases of ex-colonial assistance, but many nations have opted to buy what they want from Japan as in the case of the Toyota pick-up.
It today is the most prevalent vehicle on the planet for its known versatility and operational capability, Land rover and the Mercedes Unimog follow quickly behind. Hino is perhaps one of the most common type of trucks that despite being of the late 60' early 70's era is still viable today as it was them?
Cost determines who has what, but with the possibility of mining and the discovery of fuels the wealth is pouring in to the coffers to be spent on the latest machinery from Volvo and many other expensive manufacturers.
Home grown manufacturing in South-Africa if it continues despite the new political situation will see a tremendous growth in supplying the continent with all types of machinery?
The formation of the African Union (UN) is a driving force behind the need for newer types of existing Atlas military equipment and also the various RSA BAE ground vehicles which not many know about outside!
Tuesday, 14 March 2017
Farm Machinery. Two.
Sophistication and the Robotic Age?
Most of the new machines of various type coming on to the market are now built for one role, thus the days of the common tractor may be coming to an end? Over the last one-hundred and fifty years the need for labourers has gone down from 50 to 5 on most farms.
The steam engine began the mechanised decline and this was followed by the ever increasing size of the fields in Europe. Today we are entering the driver less car and soon the farm machine will follow, with the operator working from the laptop in their home.
What started off as a game, will soon become a reality in robotic farming. What of the machines, well perhaps all will be repaired by themselves, even cutting out humans? But the updating and programming will remain a human intervention for some time yet?
Most of the new machines of various type coming on to the market are now built for one role, thus the days of the common tractor may be coming to an end? Over the last one-hundred and fifty years the need for labourers has gone down from 50 to 5 on most farms.
The steam engine began the mechanised decline and this was followed by the ever increasing size of the fields in Europe. Today we are entering the driver less car and soon the farm machine will follow, with the operator working from the laptop in their home.
What started off as a game, will soon become a reality in robotic farming. What of the machines, well perhaps all will be repaired by themselves, even cutting out humans? But the updating and programming will remain a human intervention for some time yet?
Tuesday, 7 February 2017
Farm Machinery. One.
Not getting any Smaller.
The concept in farm machinery is to cut out the need for farm labour, apart from a few cases of specialist vegetable crops that have to be picked by hand? But even here the days of needing a human picker are fading too, to be replaced by the gentle hand robotics?
The other reason is the size of fields today are far much bigger than they were seventy years ago, this is because of the removing of the traditional ditches. Machines today can do eighteen drill ploughing over that of the conventional four on most small tractors.
Most of the new farming machines have nearly everything in their cabs, but not yet a bed? Computerised and heated they can work both day and night to sow and to reap, depending on the time of the year. Costs are astronomical for these new beats going into the millions in some cases, one has to wonder that there must be still money in farming?
The concept in farm machinery is to cut out the need for farm labour, apart from a few cases of specialist vegetable crops that have to be picked by hand? But even here the days of needing a human picker are fading too, to be replaced by the gentle hand robotics?
The other reason is the size of fields today are far much bigger than they were seventy years ago, this is because of the removing of the traditional ditches. Machines today can do eighteen drill ploughing over that of the conventional four on most small tractors.
Most of the new farming machines have nearly everything in their cabs, but not yet a bed? Computerised and heated they can work both day and night to sow and to reap, depending on the time of the year. Costs are astronomical for these new beats going into the millions in some cases, one has to wonder that there must be still money in farming?
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