Tractors!

WelshD

WelshD

Well-Known Member
Joined
19 October 2009
Messages
8,031
Visit site
The last few mornings I have been stuck behind tractors on my way to work

SO LOVELY to see them out and about after the bad weather - makes everything seem so much more positive :)
 
Yep agree with you......until I see those blinking tuck well drivers speeding through my village with trailers filling loaded with grain thinking they own the roads!!!!!

:D might be a little peeved with them :o
 
They were out in Norfolk too! I got stuck behind one on that new bit of road/Thetford where the trees have been ripped out the ground(what a big mess they have made...shame).
 
Clodagh said:
Love that!

Well on a purely personal level my OH is a much happier bunny now that he has spent a few days on his tractor, so it works for me!
Click to expand...

snap crackle and pop - crops looking good and all tractors operational, none stuck. Very cautiously optimistic about this year.

I got stuck behind my OHs tractor this morning in a rush, at least he found it funny. :D
 
Saw a massive tractor yesterday, took up 2/3rds of an A road, with caterpillar tracks on, very impressive bit of engineering. Quite glad I was in the car and not on horseback at the time.
 
OH is in his tractor 18 hours a day at the moment, hasn't had a day off for over 2 1/2 weeks- only gets a day off when it rains hard! All in the name of potatoes... his dad is flat out drilling corn/ploughing but the good thing is the cows are out, the grass is growing, days are getting longer :)
 
OH is happy with the spring barley, which was only drilled 3 weeks ago in a blizzard but is well up and looking good. The winter wheat is OK but patchy on some headlands where it was drilled and the drill kept getting stuck, it looks pretty good though. The OSR is a don't-speak-of-it disaster, we have redrilled 40 acres with spring rape and the remaining 80 acres is pathetic. Slugs, pigeons and just too much cold have all taken their toll. We are down to one car and have to get a new one, we cannot manage with just one, so PLEASE GROW!
 
It has been said before - you would be lost without them though!
I do agree it is horrible when they don't slow down but the person driving it is under pressure and busy. I don't ride out after 10am at harvest time.
 
I live on a farm and I'm glad things are getting a bit better but we have sheep and they are still needing more grass before I will feel better. Loosing so meany lambs! Been a bad year to be a farmer.
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top