Marijuana Harvester???

[johnrex62]

I am certain that should legalization occur and the crop retains sufficient marketability to grow commercially in the US that equipment makers will quickly supply any specialized hardware desired. The big problem is that legalization aims to reduce the profit margin by removing barriers to market and increasing supply.

However, even if unit price remains relatively high, it is difficult for commercial growers in industrialized countries to afford to heavy equipment to do what low paid laborers will do in third world countries. The investment just doesn't justify the effort if you can buy it cheaper from slave labor farms.

 

[blueriver]

I'm all set ... cutter, rake, baler ... how much ya think a round bale of "grass" is worth??

 

[MicroPilot]

I'm all set ... cutter, rake, baler ... how much ya think a round bale of "grass" is worth??

$20.00

 

[TripleR]

From what I have seen, it would be really hard to design such equipment for a high quality product, but one should never underestimate the ingenuity of modern agriculture.

 

[jlsmith]

Heres how they are hauling it now.:laughing:

 

[blueriver]

Heres how they are hauling it now.:laughing:

Oh ... that will make for some happy livestock!! Wonder how a loaded goat reacts!!

 

[jlsmith]

Yea but after you feed your goats that they would realy eat everything in sight.:laughing::laughing: I came across a 30 acer field around the Houston area while installing fiber optics a few years back. (my guys actuly found it) when i got there i told them to hurry up and get the cable up and get out of there. Just as we finished 5 cop cars pulled up and asked what we were doing there and told us that "we didnt see anything and should leave and not come back". They escorted us straight to the gate and watched us leave. Guess we found their stass lol:laughing::laughing:

 

[TripleR]

Yea but after you feed your goats that they would realy eat everything in sight.:laughing::laughing: I came across a 30 acre field around the Houston area while installing fiber optics a few years back. (my guys actually found it) when i got there i told them to hurry up and get the cable up and get out of there. Just as we finished 5 cop cars pulled up and asked what we were doing there and told us that "we didn't see anything and should leave and not come back". They escorted us straight to the gate and watched us leave. Guess we found their stash lol:laughing::laughing:

In my area fields like this will often be put under surveillance for several days and anyone who shows up will be questioned and advised not to let the information out to warn off the growers. If no one is caught within a few days or so the crop will be destroyed with great fan fare.

 

[orezok]

Should California legalize mary jane, it will still be illegal under federal law. That should result in some interesting cases.

The "implement" most used to harvest around here is called a "Chuy".

BTW - I plan to vote against legalization.

...but I wonder how well it would grow out here in the desert. Hmmmm.....

 

[aczlan]

Heres how they are hauling it now.:laughing:

I wonder how they caught that one.

Aaron Z

 

[Jay4200]

From what I have seen, it would be really hard to design such equipment for a high quality product, but one should never underestimate the ingenuity of modern agriculture.

If they can mechanically separate chicken, they can do anything.

Unless, of course, that machine is just a glorified wood chipper...

JayC

 

[TripleR]

If they can mechanically separate chicken, they can do anything.

Unless, of course, that machine is just a glorified wood chipper...

JayC

I don't think they quite have this perfected. My wife knows I won't touch a mechanically separated chicken.:laughing:

 

[jlsmith]

I wonder how they caught that one.

Aaron Z

It went threw a border check point and the dog sniffed them out. I just wonder how long they spent on making the bale lol

 

[art]

The Hearst family and the Duponts made enough stink to make it illegal.

The Hearsts were worried over all the acres of woodland they owned and when it was found that the hemp could be mechanically stripped and would actually make a better as well as cheaper paper! They just kept making it front page news!


About the same time the Duponts had just found how to make Rayon and Nylon and the hemp was again a cheaper solution. The Duponts had a relative that was made the drug czar for the USA and that is how they used their power to have it made illegal.

Now you'd have the drug industry fighting it being made legal as well!

Just goes to show, big government is bad as well as big business!

How much can you afford? Total savings to have it made legal with it being taxed, it would mean less prisons(fight the unions), Less police (fight the unions), Cut the size of the DEA and probably a couple of other branches of the government (fighting more unions).

Total, in about five years time (needed to stop feeding the system and desolve it) would probably average more then five billion savings a year in government spending conservatively!!!

Nice savings! Probably quite conservative!

Then there is the profit from the tax to consider for income! The government might not need to raise taxes for a week or two!!!

 

[TripleR]

The Hearst family and the Duponts made enough stink to make it illegal.

The Hearsts were worried over all the acres of woodland they owned and when it was found that the hemp could be mechanically stripped and would actually make a better as well as cheaper paper! They just kept making it front page news!


About the same time the Duponts had just found how to make Rayon and Nylon and the hemp was again a cheaper solution. The Duponts had a relative that was made the drug czar for the USA and that is how they used their power to have it made illegal.

Now you'd have the drug industry fighting it being made legal as well!

Just goes to show, big government is bad as well as big business!

How much can you afford? Total savings to have it made legal with it being taxed, it would mean less prisons(fight the unions), Less police (fight the unions), Cut the size of the DEA and probably a couple of other branches of the government (fighting more unions).

Total, in about five years time (needed to stop feeding the system and desolve it) would probably average more then five billion savings a year in government spending conservatively!!!

Nice savings! Probably quite conservative!

Then there is the profit from the tax to consider for income! The government might not need to raise taxes for a week or two!!!

When my son was a Police Officer, he would often get dispatched to the state line to stop an incoming vehicle. Once the stop was made, the DEA, Drug Task Force and FBI Drug Unit would arrive to take over. That is a lot of people doing the same job.

 

[Gio]

Legalize it, Tax the crap out of it and leave my paycheck alone