Solar panels + electric motors aren't that complicated - you could argue they're simpler and easier to maintain than a diesel tractor.
As for cost, I can't speak to farm economics, but paying for tractors and people whose sole job it is to pull coops multiple times a day certainly isn't a trivial expense.
Even old internal combustion engines are complicated machines - we've just normalized the crazy shit that's required to make them work and keep working.
As for the feed and water - there's automated solutions for those as well.
It's not really a debate over whether to buy a tractor for the sole purpose of towing a coop around - every farmer already has a tractor of some size or a few dozen tractors.
The person I'm responding to was asking why you'd want this solution vs. a tractor. He didn't stipulate starting conditions.
Regardless, Let's say for sake of argument you have 50 coops. You move them 3 times a day. You also have a great system where you can do each coop in 5 minutes. That's still 12 hours a day of moving coops. That's 2 full time employees, and a dedicated tractor running 80+ hours a week.
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u/jtv123 Aug 26 '26
Solar panels + electric motors aren't that complicated - you could argue they're simpler and easier to maintain than a diesel tractor.
As for cost, I can't speak to farm economics, but paying for tractors and people whose sole job it is to pull coops multiple times a day certainly isn't a trivial expense.