My tractor can already plant a seed using GPS to 1 inch accuracy why do I need another tracker?
My tractor can already plant a seed using GPS to 1 inch accuracy why do I need another tracker?
Now I am more than aware that I am convinced food just comes from Tesco, I have no understanding of the complexities of getting it from the cow to my plate but I am an avid watcher of Clarkson farm and one thing struck me was how accurate they could plant crops with the add of GPS. Now I have been fitting vehicle tracking systems since I was a teenager so I am more than familiar with the technology and how it works. But even that blew my mind.
A Moving intelligence wireless tracker is a good shout, the advantage of a wireless unit is you can literally fit anywhere it will physically fit. What you need to have to fit a wireless tracker is just space, no wires needed. But this opens it up to Other applications. A quick google search says that attachments can be up to 4500. You can even fit these wireless units to the attachments. (Source 1)
Attachments also don’t have a typical VIN number, there are schemes in place to identify the equipment and I am sure they are very good, but the point is without a tracker you’re relying somebody checking. (Source 2)
But the other thing is horse-boxes, I myself am scared witless of horses, but I can’t help but admire the life of a horse. I know a horse, lets call them Panda. Panda was a dressage horse (I’ve been informed she can dance sidewards quite well and is partial to prozac) but is now retired, she spends her life in a field somewhere in the north-west of England, she spends her time in a field eating grass and getting fat. If we exchange grass for chicken wings that’s my life dream. But what’s really impressive is the occasions that Panda has to go on a trip. Its like a military operation and the horse box she goes round in is quite a bit more luxurious than the Vauxhall Astra her owner drives. Horseboxes just aren’t cheap, why wouldn’t you want to track it? But there is another use for it. Should you be transporting a clients horse, by being able to share tracking information everyone feels more comfortable. Everyone is covered. Because lets be honest horse people can treat their horses better than there own kids sometimes and if you can show them exactly where there rather large strong willed overgrown dog is it saves them calling you 20 times a hour for an update.
But it even applies for live stock. I hate to keep referencing it but all my faming knowledge comes from Jeremey Clarkson, you raise sheep, I get there going to be food but tis an investment, if the trailer was to go missing with your sheep in. A thief is not going to think twice about letting them out in a random field. So not only are you out the cost of the sheep, you’re out the cost of the bloody trailer too.
Even agricultural haulage companies, a nice big truck turns up to your farm. You then load your expensive tractor on it or 100 sheep. You then wave it on its way not knowing anything about its journey. Yes the haulage companies have insurance but knowledge is power and who wants to deal with making a claim and causing bad feelings in a an already tight knit community.
Rural crime is on the increase. Don’t become a victim, when there are cost effective solutions out there. Its hard enough getting the lamb chop from the field to mikes plate (that’s not including seeing how mrs mike burns it) so why make it harder for yourself? Tractor crime is up 17% (Source 3), but its not just tractors, Telehandlers are easier for thieves to sell once stolen and quad bikes you may use to whip bales of hay up the top field can be repurposed for snatching bags of little old ladies in a high street by the local scallywag. It is up to everybody to do something about crime. The only person crying when they become a victim is the victim.
