- Location
- Huntingdon, UK
The accident I referred to earlier happened on a farm owned by a giant multinational that posts profits of £600 million.
But why would farmers want to sell up just when it had become profitable anyway?
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Things that would improve farm safety ?
- Thread starter Clive
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The accident I referred to earlier happened on a farm owned by a giant multinational that posts profits of £600 million.
But why would farmers want to sell up just when it had become profitable anyway?
- Location
- Ceredigion
When unloading straw make sure the lorry driver is not on the other side wrapping the straps up , young lad was killed last year when the bales toppled on him
Yes, I agree, accidents will still happen. But I'm convinced £1000t wheat ( insert other produce ) would cut accidents substantially. You wouldn't be fussed about rushing to sow that last 20 acres to beat the rain and so on........
I don't think the livestock will be to impressed when they learn there only getting fed 6 days a week
wanton dwarf
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wanton dwarf
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Maybe ... but I would say for the first 50 years farmers would act as if it was going to end in the next 30 seconds ...
wanton dwarf
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If wheat was £1000 I'd be setting myself on fire to drill the last 20 acres!!!! But agree with the gist.
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Sorry - I don’t have any motorways within 100 miles of me. But I still don’t and won’t condone breaking one law because you think you’re better than those who set them.
Why don’t you just buy a tractor that’s legal at the higher speeds?
perhaps instead of condoning breaking the law he should lobby to get it changed, 30 or 35mph on a duel carriageway 25 mph everywhere else
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
I think that would be a great idea. But he’s a bit busy trying to build a retail empire alongside this forum, it seems. And getting rid of NFU, AHDB and RT.
to be honest if he can get shot of RT I would rather that and leave the speed limit as it is but both would be sensible
- Location
- midlands lreland
The mobile saved my life the day I was attacked by a bull. I was able to ring my neighbour and he got me out of the field and to an ambulance. Without it I would have died in the field. I never leave home without my phone.
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
I don’t care about RT. Manage fine without them - just means I have to sell a brand and not a commodity.
Good job they ignore the weights of your big trailers isn't it then Clive. You must be a special chap, to be able to obey or ignore whichever laws you fancy.
I see too many over weight tractors and trailers tipped over, mostly on roundabouts. If they drove slower, it wouldn't happen, but people like you say its ok, because 55k means you won't get shunted from behind. You're up on a cloud mate. If you really think an extra 10kph (thats six miles an hour!) or whatever makes the difference between been shunted or not, by a truck that might be travelling at nearly 90kph, then you're basically making excuses to avoid buying proper legal equipment.
You're simply finding excuses to bomb along the dual carriageways with your overweight trailers at illegal speeds.
Go buy some Fastracs, or some trucks, then you'll be legal, its an easy enough fix.
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- Location
- Top of the Chilterns
Agreed a hundred times, though I believe technically a cherry picker or man cage requires a restraint harness rather than fall arrest. Not 100 percent but I think that's what they said on my IPAF.
MickMoor
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- Location
- Bonsall, UK
Correct.
I remember when we started using cherry pickers. We though they would add cost. In fact, because you have everything with you in the basket, they make the job easier and quicker, as well as as safer, so there is no increased cost.
If a customer expects me to cut corners, I have a stock reply, “ So you want me to risk my life to save you a few pounds?”
A few farms are an untidy, dirty mess; these are likely to have an accident waiting to happen.
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
True. Two blokes with a cherry picker put our shed up a lot faster than the old boys did thirty years ago tightrope walking along the rafters with only a fag end to hold onto and a knackered Cole’s crane to lift anything.
I was slightly concerned by the amount of roofing sheets they stacked onto the cherry picker basket to get them up there but they knew a lot more about the job than I did so I didn’t interfere.
- Location
- Ceredigion
I don't agree
In the 70ts one could make a good living milking 50 cows . With
quite modern plant so would have be feasible to keep a lot more
So what happened I have no idea, did high interest rates stop expansion, could well be , so what would happen if the wheat price went to what you suggest. 5000 acre men would suddenly become 10,000 acre men
Safety can mainly be summed up in a few words , "Stop and Think"
When your stressed up to the eye balls , don't have time to think , that's when things happen!
Money would make my farm no safer , its a state of mind , some people think it will never happen to them
rubbish