This Android app utilises a database of tractor performance figures, letting users estimate their power taking into account surface conditions. Somehow. Here’s the official explanation of how and why this might seem like a useful thing:
Quickly estimate tractor horsepower to pull various implements. No more standing at farm auctions wondering if your tractor could pull an implement for sell. The application has a built in list of many common implements. You can select ground and soil conditions, tractor type, pulling speed, working depth and size of the size of the implement. Then hit calculate and the application will provide an estimate for the required drawbar and PTO horsepower.
Imagine the time you will save from not having to hang around at farm auctions any more. What we can’t understand is why there’s a 42 minute gap between the taking of these two images:
If you have a need for a rough approximation of the horsepower rating of a tractor, the app is on the Android Market here.
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David W
/ March 19, 2011The kind of app the market is screaming out for IMO….. probably.
Trilby
/ March 19, 2011Any word on an app that calculates the efficiency of combine harvesters, in fieldmice per second?
Trevor Hibdige
/ March 20, 2011Following EU Directive 06/2010 from June last year, it is no longer permissible to quote Combine Harvester Efficiencies in fieldmice per second. Instead, the replacement simpler unit of eurohectarecompletion per 100 litres of low sulphur (IEC43621 2008) diesel shall be used. The Help File explains all.
Anton Gully
/ March 21, 2011I was messing around with App Inventor last week and it’d let you put together a bunch of specialised sizing/measuring/estimating tools for your business very easily with minimal programming knowledge. Try doing that on iPhone.