raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
Tractors and tractor drivers
- Thread starter oldworld
- Start date
Page may contain affiliate links. Please see terms for details.
mudsticks
Obviously an Aubergine
Thank you.
Both purposes.
In some places I let it reseed itself and go through another winter - the straw adds lots more bulk to the soil
Yes - food banks..
Something has clearly gone badly wrong.
But this government's response, to this failure ??
Give all those good caring folk a pat on the back for picking up the pieces.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Pictured there giving a thumbs up to the guy he'd bought his drivers licence from.
I've admitted I'm not a farmer but that looks suspiciously like a road roller to me.Sounds very plush.
I think I started on an old International yard scraper..
Oh the glamour
But never mind all that.
Look!! The first sown rye corn is up!!
Only twelve days to germination.
View attachment 560209
mudsticks
Obviously an Aubergine
I've admitted I'm not a farmer but that looks suspiciously like a road roller to me.
Good spot, it was first out of the toy box 😊
T4tomo
Legendary Member
Yep my main task was scraping muck out of the cows sheds, as much time going backwards as forwards. We also had a similarly plush David Brown 25D. Both tractors are still running today I think. The massey went to a long retired farmer who never passed a car driving test, who previous "run to the shops" tractor went to the scrap yard in the sky.Sounds very plush.
I think I started on an old International yard scraper..
Oh the glamour
mudsticks
Obviously an Aubergine
Yes going backwards skilfully is just as important as going forwards
Trailer reversing needs to be spot on, round tight corners.
You still see a few tractors parked outside pubs hereabouts...
Farming can be thirsty work 😉
ianbarton
Veteran
We still use an International as a yard scraper.
nagden
Über Member
- Location
- Normandy, France
We have lived in Normandy for 16 years now. During that time we have seen a huge increase in the size of tractors and machinery. At first there was a huge range of tractors varying greatly in size and age. I regularly used to see a farmer in an old Deuz tractor no cab pulling two trailers of hay and straw. It has all changed now. Every tractor seems to be enormous and brand new towing equally large pieces of machinery. I have to get onto the verge on my bike when I meet them on small roads.
Sadly the purchase of this machinery is all on credit and I understand that a John Deere of a 150bhp is in excess of €150k. Now the banks are not giving out so much credit and farmers are now leasing the tractors.
I cannot see that modern agriculture carrying so much debt is sustainable. Listening to the radio yesterday 1 in 5 French farmers live in poverty. Every 2 days a French farmer commits suicide. 40% of farms sold are bought in order to form one large farm. I suppose it is the industrialation of agriculture. In the next
ten years 180,000 French farmers will retire and there are not enough young people willing are able to enter farming. It doesn't paint a hopeful picture.
Sadly the purchase of this machinery is all on credit and I understand that a John Deere of a 150bhp is in excess of €150k. Now the banks are not giving out so much credit and farmers are now leasing the tractors.
I cannot see that modern agriculture carrying so much debt is sustainable. Listening to the radio yesterday 1 in 5 French farmers live in poverty. Every 2 days a French farmer commits suicide. 40% of farms sold are bought in order to form one large farm. I suppose it is the industrialation of agriculture. In the next
ten years 180,000 French farmers will retire and there are not enough young people willing are able to enter farming. It doesn't paint a hopeful picture.
raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
Are you referring to the case that was dropped due to his disability, he has a tendancy to believe anything he's told.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Yes, thats the one. He can personally negotiate book and tv contracts, but when someone offers to sell him a drivers licence in a pub he can't tell its a fake, because all irish drivers licences are issued in pubs in exchange for cash and he therefore thought this was normal procedure.
The Irish DVLA, yesterday.
raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
Off topic but it's not like coppers are always honest either,
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/police-officer-who-paid-7p-23072560
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Forgive me perpetuating the off topicness, but that is disgraceful. Shows how effective HR are as they keeo recruiting these idiots. Still, perhaps he'll do better in his new role as a tractor driver.
I was going to say that modern tractors are capable of going too fast for safety but that's not actually true. ON good roads they can be be safely driven at high speeds. The problem is not the tractors but the attitude of the people who drive too fast on narrow roads with poor sight lines because they are in a hurry and don't care about anyone else but you find them in all vehicle types, including cyclists in some cases.
