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Zack Smith on the ClusterCluck – Epi-3834

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Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Zack Smith returns to TSPC today to talk about updates to his stock cropper system and give up some information on a new product release called the “ClusterCluck Drive”.  The ClusterCluck Drive is a solar-powered electric drive unit that bolts onto your existing portable coop or pen and moves it for you, manually with a Bluetooth key fob or on a fully autonomous straight-line schedule through our web-based app. No extension cords. No dragging. No sweat. Zack is a 5th generation farmer from northern Iowa who worked for 15 years in Big Ag and walked away to create a better Continue reading →

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0:00.0

And we're a better way to do this.

0:08.7

Let me show you a better way.

0:15.5

You don't have to be another facing.

0:20.0

And we are live.

0:21.6

Welcome folks to episode 3,834 of the survival podcast.

0:27.4

I've got a special guest coming on named Zach Smith.

0:30.0

If that sounds familiar to you, it's not just because Smith's a common name and so is Zach.

0:34.8

It's because he was on the air with us a little less than two years ago.

0:39.6

He is a pioneering, engineering,

0:43.6

engineering, innovating farmer, also an entrepreneur

0:47.8

who has put together systems that allow us to rotate our livestock

0:52.7

through fields, through pastures, or even right in between rows of row

0:57.0

cropping. We had them on last time talking about stock cropper. Today we're going to focus more

1:02.4

on something called the cluster clock. I just love that term. And all the work that he's been doing

1:08.4

in these last two years to make this into a reality.

1:11.7

Imagine if you can.

1:13.0

What if I told you, Neo, that your chicken tractor could move itself?

1:17.5

What if it could be pre-programmed to do that in a straight line situation and do it for, I don't know, a week before you had to change where it was going?

1:25.3

What if you could move it whenever you wanted to with a click of your cell phone,

1:29.4

a little Bluetooth enabled app, and other things that that might make you think that you could do?

1:34.7

What if you could automate true protein production and do so in a regenerative agricultural way?

1:42.8

That all sounds like a big thing to say you can do. I'm here to tell you, Zach has a way to show you how to do just that. Last time I had them on, we were just kind of getting started with that. And somebody's afterhand, how do we watch at 1.5 speed? You don't. Not in a live stream. That doesn't work. That's not how time works. But you're welcome to come back when it's not live and speed me up if you think you need to. Anyway, we'll have Zach on in just a moment to catch us up with the work that he's doing and let you know what's coming next. Before we do that, let's go ahead and hear from our sponsors of the day, though.

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