Charity combine run

[Highland Mule]

Progress may be quick enough when they're driving, but there seems to be a fair few stops too - as well as the TV stop at the north end of the Dornoch bridge they've also spent a good chunk in the ASDA carpark at Tain and they've pulled off again at Culbokie now. Almost seven hours in with 4 and a half of movement but not yet at Inverness. They've lost the advantage of the quiet roads now too.

I never said traffic would be a problem in scotland, certsinly not at 5 am on a sunday

Can't think of anyone predicted problems that early in the journey.

 

[Sid]

John o' Groats to Land's End Combine Challenge 2023

Track them online

 

[Pilatus]

John o' Groats to Land's End Combine Challenge 2023

Track them online

 

[Chae1]

A9 looks quiet.

Can watch live on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/live/MjhY2kaZCY4?feature=share

 

[glasshouse]

a few others did if you've read the posts

So thats my fault??
Guilt by association?

 

[Highland Mule]

A9 looks quiet.

Can watch live on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/live/MjhY2kaZCY4?feature=share

It is quiet today, although a lot of traffic northbound from Partick today.

Easy enough to track the combine though - just look for the orange traffic on Google maps.

 

[Blue.]

He’s done 166 miles another 60 to the overnight at Perth.

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

It is quiet today, although a lot of traffic northbound from Partick today.

Easy enough to track the combine though - just look for the orange traffic on Google maps.

Bet your a joy to be with on a night out

 

[Highland Mule]

Bet your a joy to be with on a night out

Orange is good, tbf.

Drove out to watch them passing earlier - very impressed with the set-up. No surprise to see how quickly the queues built up on the single carriageway near Tomatin, but credit where it's due they're making better use of the lay-bys than any vehicle I've ever seen before.

 

[Blue.]

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[Pennine Ploughing]

Orange is good, tbf.

Drove out to watch them passing earlier - very impressed with the set-up. No surprise to see how quickly the queues built up on the single carriageway near Tomatin, but credit where it's due they're making better use of the lay-bys than any vehicle I've ever seen before.

Blimey there are laybys now, we're they put in overnight, ?

 

[Highland Mule]

Blimey there are laybys now, we're they put in overnight, ?

Selective reading? As I wrote before, there's a few on the road, but not many. The bit I saw, they used every one available and still had a fair chunk behind.

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

Well he is at Perth, very good really as 220 mile in 13 hours is a fair rate of knotts.
20mph average including stops, I am very impressed with the pace they are all doing.


Edit, who is going to tell him, the header is still at John O groats

 

[Sid]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1665375890505711621

 

[benny6910]

Well he is at Perth, very good really as 220 mile in 13 hours is a fair rate of knotts.
20mph average including stops, I am very impressed with the pace they are all doing.


Edit, who is going to tell him, the header is still at John O groats

I hope they didn’t leave their dinner bags hung on the white post

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

I hope they didn’t leave their dinner bags hung on the white post

Aye the good old days lol,
Glass pop bottle filled with black Tea, and a wolly sock pulled over it to keep it warm

 

[sixrow]

Combines are driven 100s of miles in Australia between jobs. I don't think it will be a issue for combine.

Without the header they are quite compact machines especially with tracks which significantly reduces width.

They did try to get a narrow body combine, but Claas sold it.

My mate and I were out in the late nineties we got directions drove half a day down the wrong road got some bollocking

 

[John]

Friend of mine is doing it the other way on a push bike for sue ryder. Hope the combine doesn’t run him over

 

[DRC]

Friend of mine is doing it the other way on a push bike for sue ryder. Hope the combine doesn’t run him over

Now that’s a real challenge for charity .

 

[Bury the Trash]

Friend of mine is doing it the other way on a push bike for sue ryder. Hope the combine doesn’t run him over

good luck to them, that's more like it, proper character requiring challenge not faffing along with im the big clever man show off machinery, its so embarrassing and some what ironic how farming has to be portrayed by a big traffic holding up combine .
Walking it would be a darn good challenge too ........but dressed as a Sheep or a Cow