[QUOTEyou're arar, post: 6599152, member: 5961"]
Modern farming seems to involve a lot more running about the roads hauling stuff one way and hauling stuff back the other way with ever bigger tractors, anyone would think folk were paid to wear out expensive tractors and trailers and tyres and burn diesel
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Think youre wrong on that - apart from bigger farms mean longer journeys , but bigger trailers less trips though but bigger crops counter act that , the 3 x18 ton trailers and 12 row big X that left here 45 min ago have left far less mess than the fleet of 10 ton trailer that would have come 12 years ago , the field not to bad due the big tyres (and less wheel marks to due to the 12 row header )that are actually lower ground pressure than my 8 ton " wheel barrow " , I didn't really want to harvest today(this week tbh) but we have be reasonable (pro bably their smallest customer !), they have a lot to do , 300 + ton in about 4.5 hours in small fields , they carted through the village , I was quite worried about the potential mud on the road so they brought a rotary brush with them but didn't actually need it in the end .
They are very organised and professional , with radio s only one trailer on the narrow road at a time so they don't meet , came exactly when they said good warning given .
But we couldn't harvest half an acre due to next doors 20 acres of compacted potato field harvested in august running off into my maize , it's a big farm most people with common sense would not have planted and irrigated straight up and down the hill or left the ground hard - the village roads were flooded a week ago due to this .
Modern farming seems to involve a lot more running about the roads hauling stuff one way and hauling stuff back the other way with ever bigger tractors, anyone would think folk were paid to wear out expensive tractors and trailers and tyres and burn diesel
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Think youre wrong on that - apart from bigger farms mean longer journeys , but bigger trailers less trips though but bigger crops counter act that , the 3 x18 ton trailers and 12 row big X that left here 45 min ago have left far less mess than the fleet of 10 ton trailer that would have come 12 years ago , the field not to bad due the big tyres (and less wheel marks to due to the 12 row header )that are actually lower ground pressure than my 8 ton " wheel barrow " , I didn't really want to harvest today(this week tbh) but we have be reasonable (pro bably their smallest customer !), they have a lot to do , 300 + ton in about 4.5 hours in small fields , they carted through the village , I was quite worried about the potential mud on the road so they brought a rotary brush with them but didn't actually need it in the end .
They are very organised and professional , with radio s only one trailer on the narrow road at a time so they don't meet , came exactly when they said good warning given .
But we couldn't harvest half an acre due to next doors 20 acres of compacted potato field harvested in august running off into my maize , it's a big farm most people with common sense would not have planted and irrigated straight up and down the hill or left the ground hard - the village roads were flooded a week ago due to this .