</font><font color="blue" class="small">( There is nothing high tech in a CUT, just ordinary mechanisms that were perfected years ago )</font>
I agree with a lot of what you've stated - some I don't, but the statement I quoted above isn't really accurate. Speaking only about the brand I own - there is a significant amount of high tech electronic wizardry involved in it's use and operation. Much of the drivetrain operation involves a computer system that monitors load and matches engine output to the task at hand - there is cruise control, and if I'm not mistaken even some "fly by wire" or more accurately said, drive by wire technology at use.
Overall it's just a tractor, but there is for sure some high tech stuff at work there. Whether someone actually wants all that tech stuff at work is another question, one that is answered by the free market. It works for me. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif Others prefer the more tried and true good old fashioned tractors. It's amazing to me that we have all the brands and choices that we do.
I agree with a lot of what you've stated - some I don't, but the statement I quoted above isn't really accurate. Speaking only about the brand I own - there is a significant amount of high tech electronic wizardry involved in it's use and operation. Much of the drivetrain operation involves a computer system that monitors load and matches engine output to the task at hand - there is cruise control, and if I'm not mistaken even some "fly by wire" or more accurately said, drive by wire technology at use.
Overall it's just a tractor, but there is for sure some high tech stuff at work there. Whether someone actually wants all that tech stuff at work is another question, one that is answered by the free market. It works for me. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif Others prefer the more tried and true good old fashioned tractors. It's amazing to me that we have all the brands and choices that we do.