Post Amazingly Cool Photos Of Agriculture

[Silent1]

It fits in here better than any of the other forums and hopefully people will be inspired to buy british/<insert own country of origin>

[snuffle]

I must say that Im persuaded to buy British nearly every time I see my local farmer driving round
in his Daihatsu Fourtrak with Buy British stickers in the rear window.
I know its difficult to get a purely british product but if its at least built here then its a start.

[astroarcadia]

Great thread. Will contrubute asap.

[Silent1]

Just to add to this, currently wheat is selling for ~£90 a ton, but to produce wheat our break even point is £130 (with all subsidies etc worked in to the equation) so as you can see it's not a cheap business to be in.

[Mexico.]

[oldbanger]

To go a bit off topic to forestry rather than agriculture (sorry), but I've always been rather endeared to these things.



http://www.treeblog.co.uk/viewpost.php?id=177

Even the bog standard tracked harvesters are amazing to watch up close - a standing tree reduced to a neat pile of stripped logs in under a minute.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89L8ZEC14Ec
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBXT7O_tjmk

Edited by oldbanger on Sunday 19th July 13:00

[taldo]

oldbanger said:

To go a bit off topic to forestry rather than agriculture (sorry), but I've always been rather endeared to these things.



http://www.treeblog.co.uk/viewpost.php?id=177

Even the bog standard tracked harvesters are amazing to watch up close - a standing tree reduced to a neat pile of stripped logs in under a minute.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89L8ZEC14Ec
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBXT7O_tjmk

Edited by oldbanger on Sunday 19th July 13:00

that is very very cool!

[Olf]

Spotted near Winnipeg, Canada on a holiday in '03. The biggest tractor I ever did see:

[Olf]

From the same house!

http://www.versatile-tractors.com/Big%20Roy.htm

[109 Bob]

[mybrainhurts]

[kVA]

snuffle said:

I must say that Im persuaded to buy British nearly every time I see my local farmer driving round
in his Daihatsu Fourtrak with Buy British stickers in the rear window.
I know its difficult to get a purely british product but if its at least built here then its a start.

Good point, well made...

Land Rover Defender may not be built by a British Owned company, but I can assure you that it is entirely made in Britain (including the engine), assembly is mostly by hand - keeping lots of people in work in Solihull and Dagenham! What's more, it's even made in an environmentally-sustainable fashion and will likely long out-live the competitors from the Far East

Our local 'Buy British' farmer drives an Isuzu Trooper by the way

[zcacogp]

Silent1,

Sorry to be a slight pedant, but every picture you have posted (and all are cool, without a doubt) is of agricultural machinery, and not of all of them involved in agriculture at the time the picture was taken.

"Cool pictures of agriculture" would therefore seem to be a slight mis-title for the thread.


Oli.

[KingJeff 4th]

zcacogp said:

Silent1,

Sorry to be a slight pedant, but every picture you have posted (and all are cool, without a doubt) is of agricultural machinery, and not of all of them involved in agriculture at the time the picture was taken.

"Cool pictures of agriculture" would therefore seem to be a slight mis-title for the thread.


Oli.

This thread is sad enough as it is without you being pedantic with it!

[stifler]

A classic.

[rhinochopig]

[andrew830]

kVA said:

snuffle said:

I must say that Im persuaded to buy British nearly every time I see my local farmer driving round
in his Daihatsu Fourtrak with Buy British stickers in the rear window.
I know its difficult to get a purely british product but if its at least built here then its a start.

Good point, well made...

Land Rover Defender may not be built by a British Owned company, but I can assure you that it is entirely made in Britain (including the engine), assembly is mostly by hand - keeping lots of people in work in Solihull and Dagenham! What's more, it's even made in an environmentally-sustainable fashion and will likely long out-live the competitors from the Far East

Our local 'Buy British' farmer drives an Isuzu Trooper by the way

I have to confess i am another farmer with a trooper,we have had a defender for 10 years and it was a good truck apart from the driving position.we tried a new defender and it was even worse you just couldnt drive it.Its so cramped you would have to drive with the door open.i do try to buy british when i can but landrover is out of the question.

[fathomfive]

stifler said:

A classic.

I'm no pilot, but I'm pretty sure his approach angle is all wrong there.


Wonder what the guy on the tractor was thinking.

[Gonewest]

[Funk Odyssey]