A John Deere puzzle

This is easy. Call the police, and report it stolen. Describe the worst teacher you had in school. Have the wrecked JD brought back to the dealer. Slip the service manager $100 to strip some undamaged parts off before the insurance adjuster shows up.so as to run the bill up to cover the deductible.

What? This is high school economics in New York City.

Wave good bye to the tractor, and head home for rabbit stew, and a new fur-lined winter cap.

Hello TVP45

The tractor, having all bells and whistles known to man, has a Remote Control.

That Remote Control is in his pants pocket.

Reaches into pocket, pushes correct buttons on Remote Control, cuts drive to wheels, brakes the tractor, gets on again.

Gives rabbit a talking to, and drives on with the tilling - easy peasy.

Remember that "John Deere" tractor may have been made in the Japanese Kubota factory, and painted green to fool the buyer.

Kind Regards....

Use the whistle to activate the bell to engage auto pause. or press Alt Ctrl Del on the remote keypad in his pocket. Or he can send a SMS to the tractor on his mobile phone.

I can see O great Cat that you are a leg man.

The rabbit avoid being shot by nominating the Vixen to be Vice President of the United States!

Forgive my ignorance, but why couldn't he just chase after it and climb back in.

I know farmers can move pretty fast when they want to.

I know what he did. He left immediately for home and when he arrived he found it. His wife had left him a John Deere letter.....she'd left him for the tractor salesman.

Good answer!

If the tractor is that good, it should be programmed to harvest the entire field and return back to the shed without a driver. He just needs to head back home on foot, the 600+ meters.

And Del's Vixen?

CLAP CLAP "THE CLAPPER" to stop the tractor. If it has all the bells and whistles.

Any farmer that had ever owned and operated such a John Deere would wake up,know he was dreaming and go back to sleep.Now there is no telling what a city slicker would do with such a dream as has been described.The situation described is imposable and a farmer would know this.Only the imagination of city folk could come up with such.I would suggest that they find such a tractor,operate it and they will see.It is a good city slicker joke to a farmer!They also know very little about rabbits either.Is this a proposed scene from a Disney cartoon perhaps?It could happen in one of those.

Folks.I am 63.I have drove too many tractors and caught too many Rabbits to have any understanding of what is being imagined here.So far I have found no farmer that has.I mean no offense.I am just being honest.Alfred

First of all, Why would you abandon a john deere to save a rabbit? If it is not smart enough to get out of the way then well, survival of the fittest kicks in. But to answer the question, you would run as fast as possible to catch it, which any real (by real, I mean deere loving) farmer would do. NEVER ABANDON A DEERE!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was a precious, rabbit child...the "our future" in the rabbit world.

Hello TVP45

"Strike up the band, please"

Deere John

Oh how I hate to ride (That's why he got off the tractor - nothing to do with the rabbit)

Deere John

etc

Kind Regards....

Go home, cook the rabbit, set the table, have supper and wait for the Deere to finish tilling the field and stop and wait for him. The latest and greatest Deere's will do just that using computer and GPS guidance. No human operator needed.

lol. Run after it. If he was fast enough to save the rabbit, he's fast enough to get back onto the tractor.

Wait something's wrong, thats too simple and logical .

Im surprized the tractor dont have a proximity sensor that automatically stops it dead in its track, in that case he neednt have rolled away.

Cle,: "Golly gee i left my brain at home lol"

Rename the tractor 'Oh Deere" .................

Now that there are two answers that fit what I originally thought of, a GA to Skeeter and CowAnon. This isn't specific to a John Deere, but tractors nowadays have GPS systems that permit fully automatic operation. Deere says they don't approve of this yet, but there are farms doing it. Even in the simplest system, the farmer sets up a GPS beacon (is that the right word?) and does one row. The tractor then runs parallel to that row with accuracy up to about 1 cm! In the newer systems, the operator does one turn at the headland, then sets a pattern for all subsequent rows. They also have remote controls and can be controlled from a distant computer, so GA to Hen and Sparky as well.

The rabbit story wasn't real, though I knew a farmer who used to always stop and rescue rabbits when he was mowing.

I wish I had such a system when I was young. Perhaps I wouldn't have caught the fence every third turn or so.

The tractor obviously needs a driver to stop it veering off course and going round in circles so let it do just that it will run out of fuel eventually.

He should get out of farming immediately! According to the description, his "biggest field" is a little more than an acre - and he has 4,800+ of these to plow! Or did I get the math wrong somewhere?

If he were a real farmer, he would have swerved to squish said rabbit into organic fertilizer, on a certifiable jalopy, thus improving the slight margin of yield that the farmer works so hard to produce, knowing that if he can hold on long enough to be granted a huge CRP contract or have an energy company lease his inherited land for wind turbines.

We know that his biggest field is 2,211 ft (647m x 3.28 ft/m) x 20 ft (43,560 sf / 2,211 ft = 20 ft).

What is the width of each row tilled by the tractor? This will determine how many passes are required to till the large field (if and when this rabbit, Vixen problem is sorted out).

Since this field is the largest, he will have at least 4,800 additional fields to till.

He doesn't have to get out of farming, but will need to purchase or lease additional John Deere tractors.

Also, he will need additional help to run these tractors. Let's hope the help focuses more on the job at hand than the fox and the rabbit! The days get short when you go chasing rabbits. Just ask Alice when she's ten feet tall

Recall that OP initially brought this problem to CR4 after attending a boring church sermon (his words not mine). OP never told us why sermon was boring.

My guess is that there is was a metaphor given by the preacher that OP missed entirely.

Perhaps each field represents a soul. You reap what you sow. Or some such thing. OP needs to find a Bible and study it or alternatively find a new preacher.

No, the preacher gave this long harangue about how farmers would put a stick at the end of rows so they could steer toward it; he said that, when they took their eyes off the stick, they would veer wildly to the sides. His point was, I think, that people need some sort of guidance to stay "on course". Afterwards I pointed out to him that good tractor operators could plow a pretty straight line without any help and that more modern farms were using GPS. He essentially said I didn't know fertlizer from Shinola. Anyway, in the process of making sure I wasn't full of it, I ran across a video about John Deere's newest product line this year. I thought it interesting enough to share.

The rabbit story wasn't real. I just made that up for fun.

But, why did people think the field was only one acre? I've reread my post three times and don't see how I led folks on about that.

Preachers have a notorious difficultly admitting they are wrong... I should know...

Spectra Physics attached a laser levelling and gps device to an earth mover, programmed the thing and then removed the operator. The software was self-learning. The machine graded to within one inch accuracy over an area four miles in length and 1/6 of mile in width and only stopped when it needed to be re-fueled. That was in 1992, Colorado.

The farms of Matto Grosso use gps on its seeders and harvesters exclusively! Some harvesting operations see 24 combines in tandem with only one operator on board.

I never cease to be amazed by technology. I'll never understand why other folks think engineering and science are boring.

Why wold they need to put a stick at the end of a row. Till the first row along an edge of the field, and then guide each new row by the edge of the previous row. That's what I do when mowing, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

The stick is a distant object used for a sight line; one could also use a distant building, tree, fence post,...anything stationary, as well. This is a proper "farmer" technique for pulling soil-engaged implements with a farm tractor. (It is no different in principle than distant viewing by skilled car operators in order to remain centered in one's lane...with the exception that the tractor operator has no distant [relatively stationary] vehicles or convergent lane demarcation striping to sight upon...so must be creative by "acquiring" natural [or poked-down] targets.)

Time was, that older farm tractors were fitted with flip-up seats which permitted the operator to drive, either, sitting down or leaning back against the seat in a semi-sit, semi-stand position. The latter was useful not only for comfort's sake (by distributing shocks and bumps over a larger body area and by using knees to help absorb bumps and maintain balance), but also to facilitate sighting down rows and finding & eying sight-line targets from a higher viewpoint above the steering wheel. (The steering wheel would be manipulated English chauffer style...handing the rim from hand to hand in small movements...but with a very firm grip.) (Also, if you've ever seen and wondered about that watery, stare-into-space "look" in the faces of old farmers, you can now begin to understand how the visage can become fixed after decades of back-and-forths working their fields.)

The closer one's sight line target and (relatively speaking) the more it moves (such as when sighting to the side to an approaching "row")...the more apt the tractor and implement are to veer off course...and once off course it's either stay off course or back up (or go around) and "row" over.

The method is applicable, as well, to mowing (especially on sloping/uneven/undulating terrain), but your drawing of comparison between mowing and row tilling is fallacious to some degree, that is: whereas overlap is desirable and necessary when mowing, that is never the case when tilling.

Hopes this clarifies to satisfaction.

"But, why did people think the field was only one acre?"

You said it was his biggest field (out of a total acreage of 4,800) and it was 674 meters long. That means the biggest it can be is 674 meters wide as well. An acre of land is about 4,047 m² so when I did the multiplication and misplaced the decimal point by one place, I came up with about 1 instead of about 10 acres. That's why I thought so anyway, don't know about others. However, a 10 acre field is still mighty small to be the biggest out of 4,800 acres! That gives him over 480 separate fields to maintain.

p.s. - stay away from preachers with a funny-smelling shoeshine...

I never did say how wide it was. Why do you assume it must be longer than wider? Other than the waste at the headland?

Typically, the longest dimension is referred to as "length", which seems almost intuitive. If your terminology differs, please excuse my misinterpretation. Still, 674 meters seems small for any dimension of "the biggest field" when there are 4,800 arable acres under consideration.

Tell it to come back & pick him up. You said it had every known gadget, so it will have a Voice Operated Control System. ( When he gets used to His New John Deere tractor He'll realize the Farm Equipment with some Bells & Whistles, Have Detectors to avoid hitting Fences, Stones, Large Changes in Land Level, so He'll understand it would also miss the Rabbit, & He won't jump off the Tractor Next Time. )

The rabbit would have moved for the tractor, I never saw a rabbit sit still and let a tractor or any other loud moving piece of equipment run over him and I have seen a few. In my youth when we actually did hunt rabbits they usually had a pretty good chance being missed because they were very quick to take off running for just about any noise at all. Now I have saw Rabbits and other wildlife freeze when car lights are shinned on them but you didn't say if all this happened at night. He could have just slowed or stopped the tractor before he got out but being he is not the brightest guy on the block and jumped off the tractor while it was still moving I'd say he will probably chase after the tractor. My own Kabota brand tractor has a hydrostatic transmission so if you lift your foot off the pedal it stops hard till you press it again.

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Hello TVP45

The rabbit was deaf, blind and paralysed.

Perhaps that preacher was likening that to the pew polishers.

Kind Regards....

If Slippery Ed bought one of them real fancy John Deere tractors it is likely the plough or scarifier he was pulling was very wide and very close to the rear of the tractor. Simply jumping off and rolling to one side would not prevent him and the rabbit from becoming one with nature. He would likely as not have to outrun the tractor to stay alive. Even if he were to vector to one side, to avoid the tines, he would in fact have to run even faster to cover the greater distance. Sooooo if he can run that fast he can easily catch up with and remount the tractor.

There's no farmer that quick. The farm dog made a meal of the rabbit before he could ever clear the seat.

Any rabbit that would let a big slow noisy tractor get that close to it wasn't going to be around long anyway.

That being said he needs to call the dealer that sold him the tractor all the bells and whistle are not working. Have them chase it down.

Very good point - if the rabbit proximity alarm was defective, the dealer must make good on the warranty! I don't know if that particular feature would be a bell or a whistle, but it should have given fair warning of rabbitry - maybe even engaged in some hare-um scare-um!

The dealer will say the rabbit must have been old and death. That their not in the business of selling hearing aids to wildlife.