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Haha. After I posted the above I thought to myself that sitting on a tractor was living the dream for half the folk on here.
i'm sorry things like that baffle me. If you don't like the work associated with your chosen career maybe it's time for a change of job. Me i was brought up with a muckfork in my hand so tractor driving is the easiest bit of farming.
You say that, but how about a scientist in 10 years time came up with a wheat/ PRG/ clover hybrid, which produced a 10 tonne milling wheat crop, fixing its own N and did not need re establishing every year.
Russian scientists claimed they had some such in the 1960’s
it would still need harvesting, but yes I agree that kind of tech is interesting and exciting as well IF it just doesn’t mean we end up working for the big Ag co’s that own the tech behind it
if it doesn’t make us better off what’s the point regardless of how clever it is !
That's a bit sad and a bit arrogant in my opinion. Farming takes a multitude of skills and for an arable farmer the operation or the understanding of the operation of machinery is one of them. Technology is brilliant but it should be to assist us not replace. I understand the need for an autonomous device for say bomb disposal or mine clearance but for driving a tractor I'm not sure it's necessary. I could understand it if you were on a tractor 12 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days of the year but its a small proportion of your time. However i am very much aware that everyone is different me I like tractors and buying them and using them is what makes farming fun for me and I'd hate to lose it.my career is a farmer - not a farm labourer
There is a LOT more to my job than just being a seat polisher . . ,
In a whole farming year, I might spend a max of a month / 6 weeks in a tractor . .
I haven’t chosen to be a farmer because I like sitting in tractors . . .
personally, I’d rather clean public toilets for the Council than sit in a tractor all day
I bet you write emails instead of posting a letter. Same difference.That's a bit sad and a bit arrogant in my opinion. Farming takes a multitude of skills and for an arable farmer the operation or the understanding of the operation of machinery is one of them. Technology is brilliant but it should be to assist us not replace. I understand the need for an autonomous device for say bomb disposal or mine clearance but for driving a tractor I'm not sure it's necessary. I could understand it if you were on a tractor 12 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days of the year but its a small proportion of your time. However i am very much aware that everyone is different me I like tractors and buying them and using them is what makes farming fun for me and I'd hate to lose it.
I have to agree, when I was in my twenties, I thought I was the mutt's nuts sitting on a tractor day and night. Now nearing 60, I avoid anything that takes more than about an hour at a stretch if I can possibly help it. I still enjoy a few weeks making the hay with my collection of oldies but that is partly nostalgia/hobby and it would probably pay to get it done by someone else.We already have tractor jobs where the driver just sits there watching porn until he crashes into a pylon, may as well do away with that and he can sit at home and watch it on a bigger screen with no pylon damage.
I am strongly of the opinion that tractor driving is a young mans game, I am in pain after an hour or so these days.
I bet you write emails instead of posting a letter. Same difference.
We already have tractor jobs where the driver just sits there watching porn until he crashes into a pylon, may as well do away with that and he can sit at home and watch it on a bigger screen with no pylon damage.
At least once a week I am out spraying until after 10pm because that is when it is fit. I would love it if my tractor went and did it on its own. And having seen the vast
size of the macadamia plantations as in the vid I can fully understand how they can play an incredibly useful part.
I am strongly of the opinion that tractor driving is a young mans game, I am in pain after an hour or so these days.
I just look at the tiny cab of my Stockman Special sitting forlorn in the corner of the yard and think "Did I really spend 12,000 hours sitting in that little box ? " Imagine being an astronaut and being told "We're going to shut you in that capsule for 18 months !"
I like tractors and machinery because of the jobs they do not just because I like shiny paint although having started with nothing (most of which I still have) it's nice to be able to buy reasonable stuff. I don't have to sit on a tractor I can find plenty of cheapish labour here to do that but I enjoy doing it when I am not doing the miriad of other jobs that are part of being a Farmer not Labourer. It's easy here in Africa to send someone off into the field to do the work and as such maybe that's like having an autonomous machine but being in the fields especially with my cropping is very important and you see a lot more from the tractor seat than on foot just by virtue of travelling more ground. With regard to spraying for the last two months it has been my job and I have really enjoyed it and probably saved myself a lot of money by looking over the crops and being able to make informed decisions (I don't have autosteer but do have autoshut off on the sprayer so I am not totally against technology). I personally would rather pay someone to do the jobs I don't like such as office work and do the fun stuff myself.I bet you write emails instead of posting a letter. Same difference.
We already have tractor jobs where the driver just sits there watching porn until he crashes into a pylon, may as well do away with that and he can sit at home and watch it on a bigger screen with no pylon damage.
At least once a week I am out spraying until after 10pm because that is when it is fit. I would love it if my tractor went and did it on its own. And having seen the vast
size of the macadamia plantations as in the vid I can fully understand how they can play an incredibly useful part.
I am strongly of the opinion that tractor driving is a young mans game, I am in pain after an hour or so these days.
I agree you need to get closer to you soil and crops not further away.Theres probably not that many on here now who started out on a cabless tractor, but that gave an understanding of the soil that you dont get sitting Miles up in a luxury cab .
I often see younger tractor drivers happily going up and down, on thror phones making an absolute howk