Tractor pushes parked cars out of the way
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m4tti said:
I guess you could but when your in hectares of open countryside and using a public right of way with the nearest pavement a couple of miles away, you don't expect to be intimidated as the correct course of action would be to let the right of way clear.
Any other top tips, or are your reading skills that of an undiscovered Amazonian Indian.
No, I think I'm o/k thanks.Any other top tips, or are your reading skills that of an undiscovered Amazonian Indian.
Edited by m4tti on Saturday 25th November 00:26
Edited by m4tti on Saturday 25th November 00:28
m4tti said:
I find this thread semi interesting and at the same time unsuprising.
Last year I was walking across the local field when some farm hand or farmer took the latest super scale tractor a mere few feet behind me walking the dogs across a public footpath. It looked like the cab sat faorward of the front wheels. It was huge.
I held my position and he crawled literally feet from me, rather than letting me clear the right of way. He could have waited at the other side of the field. The noise from it was immense.
At the end of the footpath I asked him what he was doing and to shut down his engines.
As I went slightly ape s
t and told him to get out of the funking cab and discuss his driving face to face, he had some odd breakdown with tears and told me he grows the country's food. Which at the time I couldn't give a fk.
This behaviour makes me wonder if these people are becoming slightly unstable due to the working environment in this country and the op post is merely a demonstration of this.
Yes that happened. Absolutely definitely happened. Just like you said. Of course.Last year I was walking across the local field when some farm hand or farmer took the latest super scale tractor a mere few feet behind me walking the dogs across a public footpath. It looked like the cab sat faorward of the front wheels. It was huge.
I held my position and he crawled literally feet from me, rather than letting me clear the right of way. He could have waited at the other side of the field. The noise from it was immense.
At the end of the footpath I asked him what he was doing and to shut down his engines.
As I went slightly ape s
t and told him to get out of the funking cab and discuss his driving face to face, he had some odd breakdown with tears and told me he grows the country's food. Which at the time I couldn't give a fk. This behaviour makes me wonder if these people are becoming slightly unstable due to the working environment in this country and the op post is merely a demonstration of this.
Edited by m4tti on Friday 24th November 23:46
Edited by m4tti on Friday 24th November 23:48
Efbe said:
Yes that happened. Absolutely definitely happened. Just like you said. Of course.
Yep it did which makes it all the more bizarre. Hence my question about the psychological pressure on the farming community.After watching some of the repeats of the fernley whitingstall stuff about farming and the returns, driven by super markets you could see why they may be stressed and having "falling down" moments.
Edited by m4tti on Saturday 25th November 00:44
m4tti said:
Efbe said:
Yes that happened. Absolutely definitely happened. Just like you said. Of course.
Yep it did which makes it all the more bizarre. Hence my question about the psychological pressure on the farming community.m4tti said:
I find this thread semi interesting and at the same time unsuprising.
Last year I was walking across the local field when some farm hand or farmer took the latest super scale tractor a mere few feet behind me walking the dogs across a public footpath. It looked like the cab sat faorward of the front wheels. It was huge.
I held my position and he crawled literally feet from me, rather than letting me clear the right of way. He could have waited at the other side of the field. The noise from it was immense.
At the end of the footpath I asked him what he was doing and to shut down his engines.
As I went slightly ape st and told him to get out of the funking cab and discuss his driving face to face, he had some odd breakdown with tears and told me he grows the country's food. Which at the time I couldn't give a fk.
This behaviour makes me wonder if these people are becoming slightly unstable due to the working environment in this country and the op post is merely a demonstration of this.
If you really wanted to see him vexed you should have walked off the public footpath and through his crops.Last year I was walking across the local field when some farm hand or farmer took the latest super scale tractor a mere few feet behind me walking the dogs across a public footpath. It looked like the cab sat faorward of the front wheels. It was huge.
I held my position and he crawled literally feet from me, rather than letting me clear the right of way. He could have waited at the other side of the field. The noise from it was immense.
At the end of the footpath I asked him what he was doing and to shut down his engines.
As I went slightly ape s
t and told him to get out of the funking cab and discuss his driving face to face, he had some odd breakdown with tears and told me he grows the country's food. Which at the time I couldn't give a fk. This behaviour makes me wonder if these people are becoming slightly unstable due to the working environment in this country and the op post is merely a demonstration of this.
Edited by m4tti on Friday 24th November 23:46
Edited by m4tti on Friday 24th November 23:48
Nothing gets them so worked up as that , apart from inconsiderate parking of course.
Once again a PH thread shows that on here, just as outside in the real world, there is a proportion of the population that really need to learn how to conduct themselves in a reasonable manner. Obvious trolling, sniping just for the sake of sniping, vacuous posts with no aim other than to belittle others and contribute nothing, deliberate misinterpretation of what people have written, inventing scenarios that bolster a biased agenda without any supporting evidence. Wonder how they'd behave and come to any sensible and just decision on a jury. Worrying that there could be people deciding some poor sod's fate where IRL one could be forgiven for crossing the road in order to avoid them.
FiF said:
Once again a PH thread shows that on here, just as outside in the real world, there is a proportion of the population that really need to learn how to conduct themselves in a reasonable manner. Obvious trolling, sniping just for the sake of sniping, vacuous posts with no aim other than to belittle others and contribute nothing, deliberate misinterpretation of what people have written, inventing scenarios that bolster a biased agenda without any supporting evidence. Wonder how they'd behave and come to any sensible and just decision on a jury. Worrying that there could be people deciding some poor sod's fate where IRL one could be forgiven for crossing the road in order to avoid them.
I know right, Efbe should really be quiet.m4tti said:
I find this thread semi interesting and at the same time unsuprising.
Last year I was walking across the local field when some farm hand or farmer took the latest super scale tractor a mere few feet behind me walking the dogs across a public footpath. It looked like the cab sat faorward of the front wheels. It was huge.
I held my position and he crawled literally feet from me, rather than letting me clear the right of way. He could have waited at the other side of the field. The noise from it was immense.
At the end of the footpath I asked him what he was doing and to shut down his engines.
As I went slightly ape st and told him to get out of the funking cab and discuss his driving face to face, he had some odd breakdown with tears and told me he grows the country's food. Which at the time I couldn't give a fk.
This behaviour makes me wonder if these people are becoming slightly unstable due to the working environment in this country and the op post is merely a demonstration of this.
A farmer local to where I live (the Scottish countryside) has found it perfectly OK to drive his tractor along a section of the gravel footpath that leads from one village to the nearby primary school in a second village, turning it into a mudbath, just so he can use the nearer and more convenient to him access gate. People with primary-school age and below children / pushchairs would obviously prefer to use that (at one point) nicely-gravelled public path as its preferable to walking a mile along a 60 limit road with a very narrow footpath, but unless there's been no rain its was a tractor-churned muddy swamp.Last year I was walking across the local field when some farm hand or farmer took the latest super scale tractor a mere few feet behind me walking the dogs across a public footpath. It looked like the cab sat faorward of the front wheels. It was huge.
I held my position and he crawled literally feet from me, rather than letting me clear the right of way. He could have waited at the other side of the field. The noise from it was immense.
At the end of the footpath I asked him what he was doing and to shut down his engines.
As I went slightly ape s
t and told him to get out of the funking cab and discuss his driving face to face, he had some odd breakdown with tears and told me he grows the country's food. Which at the time I couldn't give a fk. This behaviour makes me wonder if these people are becoming slightly unstable due to the working environment in this country and the op post is merely a demonstration of this.
Edited by m4tti on Friday 24th November 23:46
Edited by m4tti on Friday 24th November 23:48
I guess seeing stuff like that gives me less tolerance when I read about other farmers being d
heads.JimSuperSix said:
A farmer local to where I live (the Scottish countryside) has found it perfectly OK to drive his tractor along a section of the gravel footpath that leads from one village to the nearby primary school in a second village, turning it into a mudbath, just so he can use the nearer and more convenient to him access gate. People with primary-school age and below children / pushchairs would obviously prefer to use that (at one point) nicely-gravelled public path as its preferable to walking a mile along a 60 limit road with a very narrow footpath, but unless there's been no rain its was a tractor-churned muddy swamp.
So people who have a right to use his land should take priority over him using his own land?BTW, "gravel footpaths" don't turn into "muddy swaps" just because a tractor's been down it, and that's before we consider how one of these monster tractors the size of a blue whale is going to fit down a "very narrow" footpath...
TooMany2cvs said:
JimSuperSix said:
A farmer local to where I live (the Scottish countryside) has found it perfectly OK to drive his tractor along a section of the gravel footpath that leads from one village to the nearby primary school in a second village, turning it into a mudbath, just so he can use the nearer and more convenient to him access gate. People with primary-school age and below children / pushchairs would obviously prefer to use that (at one point) nicely-gravelled public path as its preferable to walking a mile along a 60 limit road with a very narrow footpath, but unless there's been no rain its was a tractor-churned muddy swamp.
So people who have a right to use his land should take priority over him using his own land?BTW, "gravel footpaths" don't turn into "muddy swaps" just because a tractor's been down it, and that's before we consider how one of these monster tractors the size of a blue whale is going to fit down a "very narrow" footpath...
On page 33 Wiccan of Darkness said:
... have we yet had the petty squabbles between two posters ending with one poster correcting the spelling of another in a futile attempt to score cheap points to reinforce their failing position?
oakdale said:
m4tti said:
I guess you could but when your in hectares of open countryside and using a public right of way with the nearest pavement a couple of miles away, you don't expect to be intimidated as the correct course of action would be to let the right of way clear.
Any other top tips, or are your reading skills that of an undiscovered Amazonian Indian.
No, I think I'm o/k thanks.Any other top tips, or are your reading skills that of an undiscovered Amazonian Indian.
Edited by m4tti on Saturday 25th November 00:26
Edited by m4tti on Saturday 25th November 00:28
Never mind Godwins law, "Wiccy's Law" states that in any internet argument, the relative size of the points argued over diminish exponentially until the spelling, punctuation and grammar is seized upon by one poster, against another.
Wiccan of Darkness said:
And there we have it.
Never mind Godwins law, "Wiccy's Law" states that in any internet argument, the relative size of the points argued over diminish exponentially until the spelling, punctuation and grammar is seized upon by one poster, against another.
Amply demonstrated by 2CVs, Cracked and Popeyes a few pages earlier Never mind Godwins law, "Wiccy's Law" states that in any internet argument, the relative size of the points argued over diminish exponentially until the spelling, punctuation and grammar is seized upon by one poster, against another.
Never mind car destruction - does "stopped" mean the same as "paused for a second" w
k wk wkTooMany2cvs said:
JimSuperSix said:
A farmer local to where I live (the Scottish countryside) has found it perfectly OK to drive his tractor along a section of the gravel footpath that leads from one village to the nearby primary school in a second village, turning it into a mudbath, just so he can use the nearer and more convenient to him access gate. People with primary-school age and below children / pushchairs would obviously prefer to use that (at one point) nicely-gravelled public path as its preferable to walking a mile along a 60 limit road with a very narrow footpath, but unless there's been no rain its was a tractor-churned muddy swamp.
So people who have a right to use his land should take priority over him using his own land?BTW, "gravel footpaths" don't turn into "muddy swaps" just because a tractor's been down it, and that's before we consider how one of these monster tractors the size of a blue whale is going to fit down a "very narrow" footpath...
FiF said:
TooMany2cvs said:
JimSuperSix said:
A farmer local to where I live (the Scottish countryside) has found it perfectly OK to drive his tractor along a section of the gravel footpath that leads from one village to the nearby primary school in a second village, turning it into a mudbath, just so he can use the nearer and more convenient to him access gate. People with primary-school age and below children / pushchairs would obviously prefer to use that (at one point) nicely-gravelled public path as its preferable to walking a mile along a 60 limit road with a very narrow footpath, but unless there's been no rain its was a tractor-churned muddy swamp.
So people who have a right to use his land should take priority over him using his own land?BTW, "gravel footpaths" don't turn into "muddy swaps" just because a tractor's been down it, and that's before we consider how one of these monster tractors the size of a blue whale is going to fit down a "very narrow" footpath...
JimSuperSix said:
TooMany2cvs said:
JimSuperSix said:
A farmer local to where I live (the Scottish countryside) has found it perfectly OK to drive his tractor along a section of the gravel footpath that leads from one village to the nearby primary school in a second village, turning it into a mudbath, just so he can use the nearer and more convenient to him access gate. People with primary-school age and below children / pushchairs would obviously prefer to use that (at one point) nicely-gravelled public path as its preferable to walking a mile along a 60 limit road with a very narrow footpath, but unless there's been no rain its was a tractor-churned muddy swamp.
So people who have a right to use his land should take priority over him using his own land?BTW, "gravel footpaths" don't turn into "muddy swaps" just because a tractor's been down it, and that's before we consider how one of these monster tractors the size of a blue whale is going to fit down a "very narrow" footpath...
He must have their permission - or a right of vehicular access - to be using it, then.
[quote]And believe me, it turned into a muddy swamp, gravel all ground into deep tractor tyre ruts which then filled with rain, got churned up again etc... for a few days - the mud was easily above ankle depth for about 100m which as you can imagine is not easy with a pushchair and a 3 year old in tow.
Apart from anything else, do you have the first idea why tractor tyres are so big? For very low ground pressure. They exert less pressure on the ground than the pushchair's wheels. Now, why do you think that might be? Could it be so that they can drive across soil without churning it or compacting it? Why do you think that might be a useful thing for agricultural machinery...?
Must be the world's s
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