Mr Charisma
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To carry on my previous post the gentleman then put up a fairly common scenario for let's say a 1000 acre arable farm ,,,,,, in the eighties a 1000 acres used to have 2 tractor drivers , maybe even 3 , there would be a TW 25 and a couple of 7710's (( adjust model numbers to preferred brand ) , TW would do the heavy work and the smaller tractors would do the cultivating / drilling .
Jump to year 2000 and something ,,,,,, 1000 acre farm is probably 1200 because they have oodles of money from subs but because they are now having to pay the bank back some money they have to look to make savings , ( being a bit facetious here ). , so manager and all staff are sacked and in comes the likes of some well known farming group ,
Kit compromises of one magnum , a solo or whatever and a 4 m cultivator drill ,,,,, there is another tractor on the farm but because the driver who does the cults likes his shiny new magnum it would be deemed a waste of assets to not use the shiny new 13 ton magnum and so it goes on the drill and the tractor that was supposed to go on the drill ends up on the rolls ,,,,,,,, this all works well in a dry autumn but it's the wet autumns when shiny 13 ton tractors running around on tender seed beds take there toll
The meeting I went to it was surprising how many of the folks sat down listening to him had to say to them selves this is us !!!!!!!
What it has to do in the direct drilling section I have no idea tho.
Jump to year 2000 and something ,,,,,, 1000 acre farm is probably 1200 because they have oodles of money from subs but because they are now having to pay the bank back some money they have to look to make savings , ( being a bit facetious here ). , so manager and all staff are sacked and in comes the likes of some well known farming group ,
Kit compromises of one magnum , a solo or whatever and a 4 m cultivator drill ,,,,, there is another tractor on the farm but because the driver who does the cults likes his shiny new magnum it would be deemed a waste of assets to not use the shiny new 13 ton magnum and so it goes on the drill and the tractor that was supposed to go on the drill ends up on the rolls ,,,,,,,, this all works well in a dry autumn but it's the wet autumns when shiny 13 ton tractors running around on tender seed beds take there toll
The meeting I went to it was surprising how many of the folks sat down listening to him had to say to them selves this is us !!!!!!!
What it has to do in the direct drilling section I have no idea tho.