STILT.PRO was founded by Tom Knuth in 2018 with the mission to provide their customers in the wholesale nursery industry with Simple products and solutions that employ appropriate AgTechnology and are designed and MadeTough. Since then, STILT.PRO has been working hard to understand the needs of their customers, grow relationships, and identify and work with growers to solve their problems in a collaborative manner.
Tom Knuth is the founder of STILT.PRO. Prior to STILT.PRO, Tom was a Senior Design Engineer at John Deere and Systems Engineer at Cirrus Aircraft.
He has worked on several notable projects, designing the landing gear and brake systems on the SF50 Vision Jet for Cirrus, and with John Deere designing critical structures and components on the 4R series tractors, leading agricultural backhoe development and strategy, and leading innovation initiatives where he invented and patented the John Deere Quik Knect which won an AE50 award in 2020.
He has a BSME from Michigan Technological University where he was the chapter president of Sig Eps and is a Professional Engineer (Licensed) in the state of Georgia.
In his spare time, he likes to…, wait, he doesn’t have any of that right now. Tom splits his time between his business and with his 3 boys and very supporting wife. When he had a little more freedom, he enjoyed spending time outside, working in the shop, remodeling his home and learning how to do new things.
Hi, my name is Rick Player, Director of Business Development at STILT.PRO. I am excited to be apart of the STILT.PRO team.
I grew up in central Georgia on a farm where we raised cotton, peanuts, soybeans, and corn. My job after cotton growing was to keep it sprayed; it was a once a week process, so I lived on a John Deere sprayer. After high school, I went into the Army served in Germany for three years. I then was recruited into the DEA, where I served for three more years. After that, I spent four years at Philips Medical Systems as a heart cath equipment specialist. In 1987 I opened MIT (Medical Imaging Technologies) and served as President for 32 years. I sold MIT in April of 2018; it was a bittersweet end to a great run. When Tom moved STILT.PRO into my facility in Thomson, I was excited to learn he works in the agriculture business.
When I’m not working I like to travel with my wife and golf at new courses. We spend time at the lake and hunting in the fall. We live on 20 acres, so a lot of my time is spent mowing and planting. It’s incredible how good grass grows when you get lots of rain.
I can’t wait to see what the future holds for STILT.PRO; I am here to serve our customers and build new relationships in the plant nursery industry. Thanks.
Hello, I am Addison McCord, the Vice President of Manufacturing and a student at Clemson University. I am majoring in Agriculture Mechanization and Business. Yep, that is right, after only two semesters I am already a Vice President, that’s just the Clemson difference. I have been involved in agriculture most of my life but really got the Ag bug in high school when I joined FFA and got to enjoy all that Ag has to offer. Throughout high school I worked with a forester in South Georgia and my senior year I got a job as a part time student at John Deere in Grovetown, Georgia. In college I have worked at Clemson’s Simpson Research and Education Center. As you can see Agriculture is a big part of my life and I am here to improve you and your plants livelihood.
Now that schools out and I have finally found some free time. I spend it out on the golf course trying to figure out if I will ever shoot par on 18, Spending time with friends, and various woodworking and metal working projects with my father. Come fall you will find me glued to all college football games, especially Georgia football games as a lifelong fan 4 years at Clemson will not change that.
We’ve got our hands in a bit of everything from IoT software development, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering to Manufacturing and Field Service. Lets talk! Introduce yourself – TomK@stilt.pro
GGIA – Wintergreen 2020 Presentation Tom Knuth from STILT.PRO will offer an engineer’s perspective at applying industrial factory metrics and terminology to visualize and improve your growing operation’s productivity and efficiency.
What is a Real-Time Location System? A real-time location system, or RTLS, tracks an asset in near real time and provides continues updates to the location of the vehicle, tractor, sprayer, gator, side by side, ATV, forklift, truck, or whatever custom piece of equipment you may have at your operation. With this information, you can start to understand the productivity of your entire operation, make changes and use data to see the changes to your operations efficiency What is Asset Tracking? Asset tracking is a general term used to describe the tracking of assets and it includes real-time location systems. Assets
This section is about Industry 4.0 and IoT and how it can have a positive effect on the horticultural wholesale nursery. Have you been feeling overwhelmed by how fast the world and technology is changing? Do you feel lost in the number of choices and options? Do you feel like you are unable to make sense of all the new technology and how it can impact your business? If you align with any of this, let me try to break it down for you as well as show you some of the options and benefits. We are at a point
Frequently Asked Questions about Rice Hull Topdressers What is rice hull material? Rice hull or husk material is the case or chaff of the rice. It is a byproduct of the rice you purchase at the grocery store. The hull is then compressed into a bag and sold to growers for use in their operation. How is rice hull material sold? Rice hull material is typically sold in 50lb bags or 30 cubic foot sacks. The 50lb bags are then put 16 on a pallet. This size is manageable for a machine operator to load in the field. The 30
We are working hard to deliver greater control of growing tasks with two approaches – We’re building data integration solutions and specialized horticultural equipment. We take a system level approach and apply innovation to the design process as well as the delivered product. We are meeting our customers where they are at by providing solutions built around their existing business and labor capability. We would love to hear from you and learn about your pain points and better understand how to meet your needs. Please don’t hesitate to share your thoughts.
