vehicle for universal use

grabcad

Something truly remarkable is in the works: still very much unfinished! A vehicle designed for universal use across multiple fields of application. If you have the option between a tractor and a versatile vehicle suitable for a wide range of tasks - and instead of investing a lot of money, you want to spend less - then a solid, robust, and powerful vehicle that's also an excellent tool is what you need. Ideally, it should be able to dig, plow, build walls - enable soil surveys, whether through soil sonar, sampling, or geological drilling cores. It should plant and harvest crops - or trees - mill them into lumber, cut them down. It should also mill roots from the ground, chop wood into wood chips for thermal recycling ...and transport all of it. I searched extensively but unfortunately found nothing that meets these criteria. Conventional tractors are not cheap, and their many attachments come with a hefty price tag - much of what I'd like is missing. So, let's create something new! I chose a vehicle with a low center of gravity, similar in size to a VW Golf, and equipped it with a strong drive system. Here's a rough sketch of the two vehicles, both sharing the same chassis structure but serving different purposes. The trailer can be controlled automatically via a field GPS - very useful when a trailer full of fruit or crops needs to be emptied while the harvest vehicle continues to gather more produce. Drive: an inline boxer engine with 2x compact 8-cylinder engines, packaged as a motor unit with silicone heating mats, a water tank, hydrogen cell, and inline boxer engine linear...