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Justus Venter

The ACO 460 has full autosteer and ISOBUS capability

Did you know that the ACO tractors have full autosteer and ISOBUS functionality? We have worked together with an international technology partner in order to develop a fully compliant ISOBUS Ready autosteer platform. More development and features will continue for…

The ACO 460 gets an upgrade!

During the first testing phase it became evident that the powershifttransmission fitted to all ACO Tractors has several drawbacks. The mostsignificant drawback is the hard gear shifting that causes a shock loadthroughout the drivetrain that is unacceptable for reliable and…

Teardown inspection

The ACO 460 is back at KH Plant for a thorough teardown inspection and documentation. Even though the testing phase highlighted many positives, we also identified areas for improvements and enhancements which are now being attended to. Once the modifications…

The end of Phase One testing

The first phase of the testing is now complete. The purpose of this phase was to test the integration of various components and capabilities, and to understand the tractor’s basic field performance. For the field testing we connected an 11-tine…