Humour in the FMJ?

[DanniAgro]

Just got the latest issue, and saw a new piece of absolute twoddle in it, in the review of the Kubota on the cover. On page 20 it's shown pulling a small square baler with the hilarious headline " The Kubota made light work of baling".
Perlease, I remember in my youth pulling this sort of baler with a Super Dexta, not a 170 hp medium size tractor!
This should be filed with the more typical classic drivel " the 200hp tractor made light work of handling the six furrow plough"; well I should bloody well hope so!
Author Simon Henley should be ashamed of writing such utter dross.
(This may involve machinery but I thought it was more appropriate in this section.)

 

[Brisel]

FMJ?

 

[Will 1594]

FMJ?

Keep up farmers machinery journal

 

[Simon Chiles]

FMJ?

Farm Machinery Journal.

 

[Brisel]

Thanks. Sorry - I live under a stone. A big flinty one.

 

[deleted user 837354]

Of course it is bilge, so much journalism is today. Written for 15 year olds.

 

[milkloss]

I’m a critical b4stard at the best of times.....I call it realism!

Anyhow, what gets my goat is this inane positivity and optimism over everything. Imo look at why something is crap and make it better. No need to be a misery over it but seeing the negativity or bad points of something encourages you to make it better.

 

[PSQ]

FMJ?

 

[DanniAgro]

Of course it is bilge, so much journalism is today. Written for 15 year olds.

Trouble is that it's not just bilge, but uncritical reviewing of the product.

 

[Roy_H]

Just got the latest issue, and saw a new piece of absolute twoddle in it, in the review of the Kubota on the cover. On page 20 it's shown pulling a small square baler with the hilarious headline " The Kubota made light work of baling".
Perlease, I remember in my youth pulling this sort of baler with a Super Dexta, not a 170 hp medium size tractor!
This should be filed with the more typical classic drivel " the 200hp tractor made light work of handling the six furrow plough"; well I should bloody well hope so!
Author Simon Henley should be ashamed of writing such utter dross.
(This may involve machinery but I thought it was more appropriate in this section.)

30 hp Perkins P3 engine.
I remember talking to a guy on a trade stand at Newark show , when l mentioned that we used to pull a 5 furrow 14" plough 9" deep in 3rd low high multipower with a 2wd 105hp MF 1100 he actually laughed and said " Oh it must have been on some very light land!" No it bloody well wasn't. Admitted had to cut the multipower on some of the stiffer patches, but very rarely did we have to go down to 4 furrows.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Thanks. Sorry - I live under a stone. A big flinty one.

You need to borrow my Full Metal Jacket, then.
Thanks for asking the burning questions ?

 

[Kiwi Pete]

I'm not the only one, then ?

 

[britt]

If journalists are critical of the machines that they are loaned to review they won't be loaned any more try out, so they have to be positive.
To say that it made light work or baling is absolutely true. A chap has to make a living.

 

[An Gof]

Just got the latest issue, and saw a new piece of absolute twoddle in it, in the review of the Kubota on the cover. On page 20 it's shown pulling a small square baler with the hilarious headline " The Kubota made light work of baling".
Perlease, I remember in my youth pulling this sort of baler with a Super Dexta, not a 170 hp medium size tractor!
This should be filed with the more typical classic drivel " the 200hp tractor made light work of handling the six furrow plough"; well I should bloody well hope so!
Author Simon Henley should be ashamed of writing such utter dross.
(This may involve machinery but I thought it was more appropriate in this section.)

Can remember using an IH 434 to pull an IH 430 baler and sledge

 

[milkloss]

If journalists are critical of the machines that they are loaned to review they won't be loaned any more try out, so they have to be positive.
To say that it made light work or baling is absolutely true. A chap has to make a living.

What you’re describing is this..........Disingenuous: Not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does.

 

[Red Fred]

Can remember using an IH 434 to pull an IH 430 baler and sledge

Dad always insisted that we used the IH434 for baling with the NH945 and Cooks sledge. In fact he had his own 434 specially for the job, "the baler tractor" which wasn't allowed near the yard scraper. I thought I'd be clever and use the Nuffield one day and I never heard the last of it- "you don't need that ruddy great thing on the baler! Think of the diesel! "

 

[jondear]

Trouble is that it's not just bilge, but uncritical reviewing of the product.

It's because of a big fat advertising fee from company!

 

[Chae1]

There's some big kubota ads in fmj.

If you want a honest review of a machine best to ask on TFF.

 

[fgc325j]

Just got the latest issue, and saw a new piece of absolute twoddle in it, in the review of the Kubota on the cover. On page 20 it's shown pulling a small square baler with the hilarious headline " The Kubota made light work of baling".
Perlease, I remember in my youth pulling this sort of baler with a Super Dexta, not a 170 hp medium size tractor!
This should be filed with the more typical classic drivel " the 200hp tractor made light work of handling the six furrow plough"; well I should bloody well hope so!
Author Simon Henley should be ashamed of writing such utter dross.
(This may involve machinery but I thought it was more appropriate in this section.)

Truth is a 170hp tractor probably needs 120-130 of the hp to get itself across a field.
It's like cattle, a 500kg beast needs less nutrition to keep itself on it's feet, compared
with a 6/700kg beast.
As i was typing this i remember a series of articles, in the Dairy Farmer
in the early-mid 70's,about a dairy farmer, from Lincolnshire, who zero-grazed approx. 300
cows, who got by with a fleet of 4-5 80hp IH tractors. Happy to be corrected on my facts.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Thanks. Sorry - I live under a stone. A big flinty one.

A gret ol’ gert big ‘Ampshire diamond?