You can spread out the pressure to a much greater degree with a hover device.
A helicopter still has to exert enough force to lift say 900kg of mass. But, the surface area covered by a helicopter’s rotors is pretty huge compared to the contact patch of even a big, soft tire. OTOH, there’s going to be a lot of turbulence in the air pushed down by a rotor / hover device, which might damage some plants more than simply being squashed by a soft tire.
The idea of hover cars have always been so silly to me. Yes let’s waste energy on counteracting gravity instead of just using a wheel lmao
They’re good for rough terrain, so ironically a tractor is one of the less silly things to make hover
Also tyres destroy the crop they drive over
And so will the hover (unless anti-gravity).
You can spread out the pressure to a much greater degree with a hover device.
A helicopter still has to exert enough force to lift say 900kg of mass. But, the surface area covered by a helicopter’s rotors is pretty huge compared to the contact patch of even a big, soft tire. OTOH, there’s going to be a lot of turbulence in the air pushed down by a rotor / hover device, which might damage some plants more than simply being squashed by a soft tire.
You got me there it does make sense for a tractor
And designing your hover trtactor in the style of 2000 tractors is as much symbolism as the floppy disc.icon.