tractor snobbery

[Vernon]

If you google it there is an official harvest student farm placement scoring system. I will post it to aid the understanding of farmers everywhere.


Basically, you need a minimum of 20 points to accept a job offer but 30+ is the target.

Has Valtra +5 points.
Has Fendt +4 points.
Has JD +3 points [if fridge is present, 0 if not].
Has Quadtrac, JD Artic or Xerion +10 points.
Has anything else minus 5 points.
Has anything else without CVT transmission minus 10 points.
Grainstore has leaf blower in it instead of brush +5 points.
Has Kramer telehandler +5 points.
Has loading shovel +10 points.
Has Volvo loading shovel +20 points.
Has caravan/mobile home with wifi or ethernet connection +5 points.
Has pornhub subscription +10 points
Has microwave in caravan/mobile home +5 points.
Yard is within walking distance of pub +5 points.
Possibility of being allowed to drive combine +10 points.
Possibility of driving baler +5 points.
Possibility of ploughing +5 points.
Grain trailers are Larrington/Stewart/Krampe/or similar premium gear +5 points.
Farmer talks repeatedly about 1970's prices/wages minus 10 points.
Farm generally enjoys 4G phone signal +5 points.


It's not that difficult to understand, no?

Oh dear. We’d only score 5, and only because the pub is within walking distance

 

[Bruce Almighty]

If you google it there is an official harvest student farm placement scoring system. I will post it to aid the understanding of farmers everywhere.


Basically, you need a minimum of 20 points to accept a job offer but 30+ is the target.

Has Valtra +5 points.
Has Fendt +4 points.
Has JD +3 points [if fridge is present, 0 if not].
Has Quadtrac, JD Artic or Xerion +10 points.
Has anything else minus 5 points.
Has anything else without CVT transmission minus 10 points.
Grainstore has leaf blower in it instead of brush +5 points.
Has Kramer telehandler +5 points.
Has loading shovel +10 points.
Has Volvo loading shovel +20 points.
Has caravan/mobile home with wifi or ethernet connection +5 points.
Has pornhub subscription +10 points
Has microwave in caravan/mobile home +5 points.
Yard is within walking distance of pub +5 points.
Possibility of being allowed to drive combine +10 points.
Possibility of driving baler +5 points.
Possibility of ploughing +5 points.
Grain trailers are Larrington/Stewart/Krampe/or similar premium gear +5 points.
Farmer talks repeatedly about 1970's prices/wages minus 10 points.
Farm generally enjoys 4G phone signal +5 points.


It's not that difficult to understand, no?

We score highly with the mobile home, pub 4G & wifi, ( the caravan is hooked up to a biomass boiler) but what happens when you ask
"You will also be required to work with livestock"

 

[Selectamatic]

If you google it there is an official harvest student farm placement scoring system. I will post it to aid the understanding of farmers everywhere.


Basically, you need a minimum of 20 points to accept a job offer but 30+ is the target.

Has Valtra +5 points.
Has Fendt +4 points.
Has JD +3 points [if fridge is present, 0 if not].
Has Quadtrac, JD Artic or Xerion +10 points.
Has anything else minus 5 points.
Has anything else without CVT transmission minus 10 points.
Grainstore has leaf blower in it instead of brush +5 points.
Has Kramer telehandler +5 points.
Has loading shovel +10 points.
Has Volvo loading shovel +20 points.
Has caravan/mobile home with wifi or ethernet connection +5 points.
Has pornhub subscription +10 points
Has microwave in caravan/mobile home +5 points.
Yard is within walking distance of pub +5 points.
Possibility of being allowed to drive combine +10 points.
Possibility of driving baler +5 points.
Possibility of ploughing +5 points.
Grain trailers are Larrington/Stewart/Krampe/or similar premium gear +5 points.
Farmer talks repeatedly about 1970's prices/wages minus 10 points.
Farm generally enjoys 4G phone signal +5 points.


It's not that difficult to understand,

-5 for my place!

 

[melted welly]

I get 30! After all there's always a POSSIBILITY of getting to do something! It also possible that I will buy a Fendt but not likely!

I get -1.

 

[melted welly]

No points for New Hollands. I thought that was obvious.

I didn't write it. I typed it.

The valtra obsession gave it away!

 

[spin cycle]

-5 for my place!

 

[Bury the Trash]

Well I would only employ someone who could repair and get running again our Fordson Major before they could drive it

 

[Will 1594]

-5 for my place!

-5 here too

 

[Baker9]

We score highly with the mobile home, pub 4G & wifi, ( the caravan is hooked up to a biomass boiler) but what happens when you ask
"You will also be required to work with livestock"

Probably -800 points for working with livestock

 

[kiwi pom]

I think shiny tractors is a good way to advertise for young staff. Lets face it a lot of these farm/contracting jobs want young folk with no commitments, able to work mega hours or sit at home when its raining.
A shiny Fendt, distracts you from the long hours, and low pay, as well as the potentially, poorly maintained, possibly overloaded, trailer on the back that you're asked to speed with on the road 18 hours a day.

What would some of these grain farmers say if their summer student only took legally loaded, covered trailers up the road at 40kph?
Now I'm old, those are probably the questions Id ask, rather than , how new is the Fendt.

 

[thorpe]

If you google it there is an official harvest student farm placement scoring system. I will post it to aid the understanding of farmers everywhere.


Basically, you need a minimum of 20 points to accept a job offer but 30+ is the target.

Has Valtra +5 points.
Has Fendt +4 points.
Has JD +3 points [if fridge is present, 0 if not].
Has Quadtrac, JD Artic or Xerion +10 points.
Has anything else minus 5 points.
Has anything else without CVT transmission minus 10 points.
Grainstore has leaf blower in it instead of brush +5 points.
Has Kramer telehandler +5 points.
Has loading shovel +10 points.
Has Volvo loading shovel +20 points.
Has caravan/mobile home with wifi or ethernet connection +5 points.
Has pornhub subscription +10 points
Has microwave in caravan/mobile home +5 points.
Yard is within walking distance of pub +5 points.
Possibility of being allowed to drive combine +10 points.
Possibility of driving baler +5 points.
Possibility of ploughing +5 points.
Grain trailers are Larrington/Stewart/Krampe/or similar premium gear +5 points.
Farmer talks repeatedly about 1970's prices/wages minus 10 points.
Farm generally enjoys 4G phone signal +5 points.


It's not that difficult to understand, no?

i bet the chunt who wrote that went to harpur

 

[M-J-G]

If you had the Grassmen youtube / video income to hide from the taxman you'd invest in the unusual older stuff rather than shiney, depreciating monsters.

Of course, and credit where it's due, they've exploited a weakness and made a fortune, but that wasn't my original point.

 

[Farmer Roy]

I think shiny tractors is a good way to advertise for young staff. Lets face it a lot of these farm/contracting jobs want young folk with no commitments, able to work mega hours or sit at home when its raining.
A shiny Fendt, distracts you from the long hours, and low pay, as well as the potentially, poorly maintained, possibly overloaded, trailer on the back that you're asked to speed with on the road 18 hours a day.

What would some of these grain farmers say if their summer student only took legally loaded, covered trailers up the road at 40kph?
Now I'm old, those are probably the questions Id ask, rather than , how new is the Fendt.

chain of responsibility here, the farmer / owner / employer is legally responsible for the poor maintenance, overloaded speeding trailers . . .
If it all turns to sh!t, it ends with whoever is at the top.

I know a fella who has a business in Sydney. He owns a farm at Moree, which his brother manages. An Irish backpacker climbed into the grain bin of a header ( combine ) while unloading & got entangled in the auger.
If the machine was faulty, causing the accident, the Sydney man was potentially liable as he was owner.


It is the drivers responsibility to refuse to operate such equipment . . .

 

[IOW91]

If it's well maintained and comfy then that would be good enough. Hours, age and brand wouldn't play a part for me.

Give these people, who want a shiny new Fendt an hour on an old D6 Dozer. Rattling around a chalk pit. Then they might think that a 2008 6930 isnt that bad after all .

 

[Farmer Roy]

If it's well maintained and comfy then that would be good enough. Hours, age and brand wouldn't play a part for me.

Give these people, who want a shiny new Fendt an hour on an old D6 Dozer. Rattling around a chalk pit. Then they might think that a 2008 6930 isnt that bad after all .

Haha - I spent a lot of hours in my early 20’s ( in the early 90’s ) doing night shift on a D6SA ( it was an old tractor even then ) pulling deep rippers & other tillage equipment, because no one else really wanted to drive it.
I loved that rattly noisy old tractor, just as long as the AC kept working

 

[IOW91]

Haha - I spent a lot of hours in my early 20’s ( in the early 90’s ) doing night shift on a D6SA ( it was an old tractor even then ) pulling deep rippers & other tillage equipment, because no one else really wanted to drive it.
I loved that rattly noisy old tractor, just as long as the AC kept working

The 1999 D6R where I work has done about 13000 hours. Just had new tracks and a blade overhaul.

Spends alot of time in the chalk pit which is hard going on it as it rattles and shakes alot. The AC packed up a couple of years ago sadly (still waiting to sort it) .

I was out on a muck shift Job and the exhaust stack decided it was time to give up and fall off. That was a loud, hot week waiting for the new one to turn up.

 

[Lowland1]

D6’s with cabs and AC what a bunch of big girls. When I was on a Rice/Tomato farm in California I had to land plane with a D6 with no cab. I think I’m still getting the dust out of my nose now and I’m still shaking and deaf.

 

[Farmer Roy]

I might be soft but I’m not stupid

 

[Farmer Roy]

PS - there was NOTHING soundproof about AC cabs from 1970’s era Cats, never drove it without ear protection

 

[IOW91]

D6’s with cabs and AC what a bunch of big girls. When I was on a Rice/Tomato farm in California I had to land plane with a D6 with no cab. I think I’m still getting the dust out of my nose now and I’m still shaking and deaf.

By the end of it I expect your spine was a ft shorter.