On 3/19/2011 7:16 AM, Karl Townsend wrote:

Seems to me an HSM type should take on a tractor. Either a garden unit
at say 10hp. or a small utility at 25hp. Weight and space aren't
serious problems with these. Makes fabrication far easier. Run time
isn't that long per charge so the battery pack doesn't need to be
huge.

My plates too full already, or I'd be on here finding a power EE type
to make it happen. I'm a bit surprised an electric garden tractor
isn't being sold. It would satisfy the yuppies need to say they are
going green.


My son worked on this one years ago as a summer project at Olin-


http://scope.olin.edu/projects/2005-...on_agribotics/


It might interest you; it was designed to be an autonomous orchard
maintenance machine. Here is the company's web site.

http://www.rocona.com/


Kevin Gallimore