Dangerous Agricultural / Forestry Vehicles

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Farming still the most dangerous industry - Farmers Weekly

 

Is it the machinery or the operator that creates the hazard?

[Matthew Storrs]

i dont have a choice in the Zetor, top speed is 15 mph

 

Haha would you want to go any faster with those brakes:001_tongue:

[Ian C]

My mother was brought up on a dairy farm , trust me while they were farming money was tight , I work long days and weekends but nothing compared to some farmers I know , I'm woken up at 4.40 am most morning by the whistle of a turbo massey heading out to feed the cattle , that's the middle of the night for most

 

Sorry, yeah dairy is hard work I ment arable farming.

[s.varty]

Haha would you want to go any faster with those brakes:001_tongue:

 

When did they make zetors with brakes?..........

[Matthew Storrs]

Farming still the most dangerous industry - Farmers Weekly

 

Is it the machinery or the operator that creates the hazard?

 

Got to be the operator I reckon where machinery is concerned- its only dangerous in the wrong hands.

 

 

I should add with modern machinery- some old school machines were hideously dangerous no matter who was using it!

Edited November 21, 2014 by Matthew Storrs
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[timtree81]

Any thread to run down farmers is a good thread they do frustrate me!!!! There are good farmers around so somebody said i just havent found one yet.....

 

 

I agree with all comments but farmers down my way not commenting on your neck of the woods work very hard and life / money is tight unless into it big , so slander farmers all you like it's not the case with them all

[Matthew Storrs]

When did they make zetors with brakes?..........

 

Yet to try a zetor which had good ones-if any, and iv tried a fair few now.

[s.varty]

Yet to try a zetor which had good ones-if any, and iv tried a fair few now.

 

Good work horses actually, whatever happened to ursus and Belarus. lambourgini and fiat?

[Matthew Storrs]

Belarus are supposedly the largest tractor manufacturer in the world.... Do Fiat even make tractors anymore? good tractors

[s.varty]

Do Fiat even make tractors anymore? good tractors

 

Don't know if they still make them , but I drove one in the early eighties and it was THE tractor on the farm, way ahead of its time:thumbup1: