Condition of a stock tractor

[HillLuing]

What would everyone says is an acceptable level of "clean" for a stockmans tractor????

Our one does all the winter feeding via feed-wagon and bedding machine, carts muck and all your other stock tasks!

Gets power washed usually once every 2 - 3 weeks and don't have netting or wrap in it ever!
Clutter is mostly jumpers or waterproofs with little tools in the cab....

Other day had "man above" have a rant about it saying it should be kept the same as the arable tractors which are washed countless times a week with a good full afternoon a week set aside for hoovering and polishing inside cab which there is no time for on stock side as one man....

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Never ever buy a tractor off a stock farmer....always an arable one

 

[HillLuing]

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[Happy]

What less important work does "man above" propose you drop one afternoon a week to maintain it like arable machine?

If you are keeping netting, wrap, feeding bags and collie dugs out of it then it will be in far better condition than most stockmen's tractors.

Do all that and a brush out of the floor once a week to clear the inevitable shite & gutters that get brought in from filling feeders, muddy gateways etc. Should be all it needs on a regular basis with the odd good red'oot when time allows.

 

[M-J-G]

There is no excuse for an arable tractor being dirty.

A stockman's loader tractor or forklift will rarely be perfectly clean in winter. Getting in and out 20 times a day with dirty boots and waterproofs would mean cleaning out at the end of every day, which is impractical.

I do detest bale wraps/nets inside a tractor cab, and tools should be in a tool box.

A pair of gloves are one thing that is usually missing from most stockmen's tractors.

 

[alwayslearning]

Wash the tractor in the spring so I can see out the Windows to spread fert.

 

[It was already broken.]

We have had nearly three inches of rain over the last four days. Don't suppose the arable boys are doing much this weekend or early next week. Even the bloke in the irritator tractor hasn't been past this morning so even the spuds must have had enough. So come Monday what have they got to do other than wash a machine or run up a combine. You just don't get that amount of spare time when you have stock. But then again you don't get many weeks of 100 hours in a cab doing 1mph up and down de-stoning

 

[multi power]

Why would an arable tractor need washing several times a week?

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Why would an arable tractor need washing several times a week?

To give its owner something to do

 

[multi power]

To give its owner something to do

Maybe the shoot got cancelled that day for some reason?

 

[Al R]

Used to wash every 12-18months when on the arable farm I was on, some of the self employed boys with their own tractors would wash daily, I had to much to do to wash more than once a year! Used to do it after it had been carting beet because I'd have it back for ploughing and drilling where it would stay cleanish.. never polished it, inside wasn't the cleanest but when your snowed under with work all year round I wasn't bothered. I'd grease every machine I was using daily and sometimes twice a day mind! Where as the boys I knew washing daily wouldn't grease anything! Plus they all had bad electrical problems, radiators caked with thick wet dust where as mine was spotless in the radiators etc as never washed it and no electrical problems on a tractor that was 10 years older.

 

[Red Fred]

Why would an arable tractor need washing several times a week?

It gives those Turkish chappies at the car-wash a job, don't you know. One likes to do one's bit to support them, and as they've got the hose out to do the Range Rover...

 

[bobk]

It gives those Turkish chappies at the car-wash a job, don't you know. One likes to do one's bit to support them, and as they've got the hose out to do the Range Rover...

Took the pickup to the local Iranian car wash for it's annual clean , folk running off the pavement and in to the road to avoid the sh!t and straw being blasted off it .
Charged me £6 ..... robbing ....

 

[Red Fred]

I like Shaftesbury Market where the car-wash lads use the wash out hoses for the car wash, and I'm covering everything in s++t as fast as it gets blown off the Ifor

 

[Hilly]

Took the pickup to the local Iranian car wash for it's annual clean , folk running off the pavement and in to the road to avoid the sh!t and straw being blasted off it .
Charged me £6 ..... robbing ....

Canny drive to Iran, be dorty time ya get hame.

 

[unlacedgecko]

Canny drive to Iran, be dorty time ya get hame.

You wouldn't be getting home. I reckon you'd disappear somewhere in Turkey and next be seen on Al Jezeera in an orange jump suit.

 

[Devil's advocate]

[Bit of QUOTE="M-J-G, post: 3847682, member: 1819"]There is no excuse for an arable tractor being dirty.

A stockman's loader tractor or forklift will rarely be perfectly clean in winter. Getting in and out 20 times a day with dirty boots and waterproofs would mean cleaning out at the end of every day, which is impractical.

I do detest bale wraps/nets inside a tractor cab, and tools should be in a tool box.

A pair of gloves are one thing that is usually missing from most stockmen's tractors.[/QUOTE]

Bit of inverted snobbery on here about tractor washing.

We are mostly arable with a flock of sheep. But harvesting caulie, cabbage, culinary swede, sprouts our Case JXU's can get really dirty & cab full of knives, spare water proofs etc.

 

[liammogs]

Personally i think with the prices of tractors these days they should get looked after no matter, be arable or stock!! Ours might not get washed as ofter but its 'de clutered' of any rubish and anything that shouldnt be there after every use!!

 

[Lovegoodstock]

Current partner borrowed my car to move some stuff to my house when she moved in, her two seats no boot didn't shift much. She took it to a valet service so it was presentable for her to take to work and went for a coffee next door, much to my amusement when I heard, they came searching for her to tell her it will be costing her more due to the state of the car!! It was during silly spring season, should have taken it to an arable farmer and done a deal on clean car for sh!t exchange!!

 

[It was already broken.]

Personally i think with the prices of tractors these days they should get looked after no matter, be arable or stock!! Ours might not get washed as ofter but its 'de clutered' of any rubish and anything that shouldnt be there after every use!!

Looking at the prices that Cheffins got in the sale that was reported in this weeks FG I think my old Massey is probably still worth damn near what I paid 12 years ago.