Dangerous Agricultural / Forestry Vehicles

[Shane]

There does seem to be a recurrent theme of people with chips on their shoulders when it comes to farmers.

 

Unsecured loads are something I've seen most days from tree wagons, dodgy vehicles are something I see regularly in many trades. Don't get me started on trailed equipment, I doubt I've seen a road legal trailer in years.

 

If farmers are the devil incarnate, sitting on great big bank accounts full of government money, why the hell are you all scrounging a living ponsing around in trees? Nothing stopping you all getting a bit of the high life.

 

Farmers, travellers, idiots, beurocrats - They are all potential topics of conversation on a forum, surely.

[CJM]

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

 

New Holland is basically fiat and if you've ever jumped into a new Holland it looks strangely like a fiat Punto inside.

All I know is lambo still make tractors because being a cruel dad I told the little one I could afford a lambo he was rather excited then proceeded to show him a picture of a 2001 lambo tractor but in my search they're still making them 2014 models were for sale

[Philip Anderson]

There does seem to be a recurrent theme of people with chips on their shoulders when it comes to farmers.

 

Unsecured loads are something I've seen most days from tree wagons, dodgy vehicles are something I see regularly in many trades. Don't get me started on trailed equipment, I doubt I've seen a road legal trailer in years.

 

If farmers are the devil incarnate, sitting on great big bank accounts full of government money, why the hell are you all scrounging a living ponsing around in trees? Nothing stopping you all getting a bit of the high life.

 

Price of land would stop most of us at the moment Dan.£11 k an acre

I agree that there are bad in all trades vehicle wise,but agree with some of these posts when you see a 17 year old flying towards you in a huge tractor and trailer with no slowing especially at harvest time when all road etiquette goes out of the window people not just Tree Surgeons get the wrong impression especially in our county norfolk where some large estates and farms receive £1 million + in subsides yet there no vehicle tax or fuel tax but more importantly regularised inspections as HGVs.

[brynseiri]

Reading through your post im guessing you don't really care for the farming community? But the brick that went through my windscreen wasn't thrown by some lowlife scum , but was simply an accident. Don't have an hgv or cpc?

 

I'm the fourth generation on our farm, passed all three driving tests first time, and work as an agricultural contractor. We are not all cowboys. On a late night run in an artic a couple of months ago I nearly hit a chipper left on the side of the Ludlow bypass that had a flat tyre, van still hitched to it, no hazards or signage. Fact of life, if you're an idiot, your job doesn't really come in to it at the end of the day.

 

 

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[s.varty]

I'm the fourth generation on our farm, passed all three driving tests first time, and work as an agricultural contractor. We are not all cowboys. On a late night run in an artic a couple of months ago I nearly hit a chipper left on the side of the Ludlow bypass that had a flat tyre, van still hitched to it, no hazards or signage. Fact of life, if you're an idiot, your job doesn't really come in to it at the end of the day.

 

 

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I think youv misread my posts, im defiantly pro farmer .

[mendiplogs]

I go slow and steady when hauling on the road , most people hate me / tractors it's a joke some times people think we shouldn't be on the road

 

HI TIM thats the best way in my book tim:thumbup1: go on you for slower:thumbup1: thanks jon

[Peasgood]

There's a whole thread on here with arbs bragging about their dangerous loads.

[Mark Bolam]

'He who casts the first stone'....

 

Every single tree company I've ever worked for has broken the law pretty much on a daily basis, and I include my own in that.

Mainly in overloading 3.5 tonners.

 

Having a pop at farmers and implying they are all rich on subsidies is pretty low, unless you know the facts and still think it's unfair?

A good friend of mine walked into the dairy last week and felt ashamed because everything was shut down for the first time in 65 years.

He's a hard working man, and has embraced modern efficiency, it just reached breaking point financially.

 

I know every farmer joke under the sun, and love winding up my lazy money grabbing farmer mates, but if truth be told a farmer works harder than all of us.

 

It annoys me when people think the countryside would look the same if no one managed it.

 

 

 

 

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[geoff]

'He who casts the first stone'....

 

Every single tree company I've ever worked for has broken the law pretty much on a daily basis, and I include my own in that.

Mainly in overloading 3.5 tonners.

 

Having a pop at farmers and implying they are all rich on subsidies is pretty low, unless you know the facts and still think it's unfair?

A good friend of mine walked into the dairy last week and felt ashamed because everything was shut down for the first time in 65 years.

He's a hard working man, and has embraced modern efficiency, it just reached breaking point financially.

 

I know every farmer joke under the sun, and love winding up my lazy money grabbing farmer mates, but if truth be told a farmer works harder than all of us.

 

It annoys me when people think the countryside would look the same if no one managed it.

 

 

 

 

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That's a good post There, the voice of reason, most people that slag off farmers don't know the ins & outs of the business.

 

Sure you get some dodgy stuff going on, as you do in all walks of life, ours included.

[Mortimer Firewood]

Good & bad in all but looking around the farmers I know most of them get huge amounts in subsidies each year at which point they buy a brand new range rover and a couple of shiny tractors.