Keeping the tractor running after nuclear war

[Wellytrack]

I’ll run outdoors and gleefully meet the first wave of blinding light and superheated death.

I’m not hanging about long enough to grow extra toes and nipples like the country folk of Norfolk….

 

[spin cycle]

I’ll run outdoors and gleefully meet the first wave of blinding light and superheated death.

I’m not hanging about long enough to grow extra toes and nipples like the country folk of Norfolk….

oi....don't knock it til you've tried it

 

[Courier]

It’s not out of the norm to stock 6months of fuel on farm.

I know many places with little more than 6 hours contingency of fuel stocks

 

[Exfarmer]

sad thing is you'll need shotgun shells not ecus

dont forget the old adage from a previous war, but updated
No 6 for Duck
No 5 for Rabbits
No 4 for Hares
No 3 for Deer
Not 2 for Wild boar
No 1 for Russians

 

[steveR]

To the OP, just remember, many of the Continental breeds we prize for beef, started life as draft animals. Couple of nice Charlie steers yoked up to the plough...

 

[PSQ]

To the OP, just remember, many of the Continental breeds we prize for beef, started life as draft animals. Couple of nice Charlie steers yoked up to the plough...

If you go back to the middle ages, a 'husbandland' in the North and Scotland was a holding of 32 acres, which was as much as was needed for a family working with a pair of oxen (most of the fields here add up to or divide by 32 acres).

If something happens to tractor ECU's and have to go back to farming in the middle ages, then the 2 local contract farmers will need 926 oxen between them. On the upside, thats the fertiliser problem solved.

 

[7610 super q]

I think some people are getting a wee bit worried about a return to proper farming....

 

[Still Farming]

Old banger tractor run well on home made bio , so drive on, as normal

 

[box]

What a pleasant Saturday morning read.

Obvious solution is to remove all ECUs after use, mount them on a key ring and wear them on your person at all times. Not unlike Sean Locks life ring.

Need to use the tractor? Simply reinsert the ECUs and away you go, to tend to the aforementioned nuclear winter wheat. Oh the convenience. Best to stick with durable filament bulbs in the twin rotating beacons to make sure they keep working as the high tech LED equivalents would no longer be serviceable......be safe, be seen - very important in a post apocalyptic world.

I for one would welcome our new Soviet overlords. No doubt they'd bring some quality Russian farm machinery and farming techniques with them, and their governance system can't be much worse than what we've currently got.

 

[serf]

To the OP, just remember, many of the Continental breeds we prize for beef, started life as draft animals. Couple of nice Charlie steers yoked up to the plough...

Nahh get a couple of lims yoked up .... soon get the ground covered at record speed ....

 

[Canada Farmer]

dont forget the old adage from a previous war, but updated
No 6 for Duck
No 5 for Rabbits
No 4 for Hares
No 3 for Deer
Not 2 for Wild boar
No 1 for Russians

One thing I leart many years ago is never judge a country by its political system or politicains....

No1's for communists

 

[warksfarmer]

If Putin presses the red button, counter measures go up to head them off. In the meantime he’d have the same raining down on all of Russia’s main targets from the rest of the world. He wouldn’t be able to counter it and would come of far far worse.

I think the reality is that one of his own will take him out before long anyway.

 

[ollie989898]

I think concerns about the health of ECUs in a post nuclear apocalypse are well founded. However since you will be returning to 1790's prices and practices, you won't need to worry about your ECUs except how many calories you can get out of them in a campfire.

 

[steveR]

I think concerns about the health of ECUs in a post nuclear apocalypse are well founded. However since you will be returning to 1790's prices and practices, you won't need to worry about your ECUs except how many calories you can get out of them in a campfire.

Make sure you keep a gennie in a faraday cage, just in case...

 

[Driller]

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Anyone know the effect of a solar flare on our tractors and how we can protect against it? GPS would be down - anything else?

Know something we don’t? Think you should change your name to Nostradamus

 

[ollie989898]

There's a prospect of a nuclear war and folk's first concern is if the GPS satellite network will continue to let them straight in pixel straight lines...

God I love the British.

 

[Finn farmer]

I think some people are getting a wee bit worried about a return to proper farming....

How is inefficient farming viewed as proper farming?

 

[Hilly]

How is inefficient farming viewed as proper farming?

That inefficient farming got us to where we are ?

 

[Finn farmer]

That inefficient farming got us to where we are ?

But how is it viewed as real farming? Imo real farming is the pinnacle of evolution, it was real back in the day, not anymore.

 

[Ali_Maxxum]

Some are just stuck in the past and manage to remind us in every single thread be it how to move a dead horse or nuclear war.