Guy Martin and a JCB
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Good programme which I enjoyed watching.
Especially pleased that the little village I grew up in was featured for the Tractor Pulling. If anyone is around the North West and wants a great day out, i'd recommend going to the European Championships to watch it as it's really quite something. I think it takes place in August every year. The noise is unreal.
Especially pleased that the little village I grew up in was featured for the Tractor Pulling. If anyone is around the North West and wants a great day out, i'd recommend going to the European Championships to watch it as it's really quite something. I think it takes place in August every year. The noise is unreal.
Wonder how long the record will stand
Wouldn't be at all surprised if the two yanks - the father and daughter - just put a bigger V8 motor in their Allis-Chalmers and have another go. The irony is that it's usually a plucky team of British boffins working on a shoestring budget who manage to crack a world record whereas their competitors spend millions to achieve the same objective. In this instance it's the other way around.
Wouldn't be at all surprised if the two yanks - the father and daughter - just put a bigger V8 motor in their Allis-Chalmers and have another go. The irony is that it's usually a plucky team of British boffins working on a shoestring budget who manage to crack a world record whereas their competitors spend millions to achieve the same objective. In this instance it's the other way around.
When is a tractor not a tractor?
Are there rules that say it has to retain certain original tractor parts (the JCB was still 50% production tractor). Or you could rock up to Elvington in your hired Lamborghini supercar for the day with a tow bar and plough on the back, unhitch the plough and set a new record.
Are there rules that say it has to retain certain original tractor parts (the JCB was still 50% production tractor). Or you could rock up to Elvington in your hired Lamborghini supercar for the day with a tow bar and plough on the back, unhitch the plough and set a new record.
That's not a tractor. A John Deere is a tractor. You don't cross the lines when it comes to tractors.
Makes me want to get a John Deere and show how fast a real tractor can go.
Then I remember I'm poor both in time and money, and will never do it. Thoroughly enjoyed it though, even if it was with a glorified digger.
Makes me want to get a John Deere and show how fast a real tractor can go.
Then I remember I'm poor both in time and money, and will never do it. Thoroughly enjoyed it though, even if it was with a glorified digger.
sgtBerbatov said:
That's not a tractor. A John Deere is a tractor. You don't cross the lines when it comes to tractors.
Makes me want to get a John Deere and show how fast a real tractor can go.
Then I remember I'm poor both in time and money, and will never do it. Thoroughly enjoyed it though, even if it was with a glorified digger.
Could you read the first line of your post again please, just to make sure you know what you wrote. Makes me want to get a John Deere and show how fast a real tractor can go.
Then I remember I'm poor both in time and money, and will never do it. Thoroughly enjoyed it though, even if it was with a glorified digger.
FourWheelDrift said:
When is a tractor not a tractor?
Are there rules that say it has to retain certain original tractor parts (the JCB was still 50% production tractor). Or you could rock up to Elvington in your hired Lamborghini supercar for the day with a tow bar and plough on the back, unhitch the plough and set a new record.
Did it still have a 3 point link and PTO on the back?Are there rules that say it has to retain certain original tractor parts (the JCB was still 50% production tractor). Or you could rock up to Elvington in your hired Lamborghini supercar for the day with a tow bar and plough on the back, unhitch the plough and set a new record.
Max_Torque said:
Nice to see that Ricardo managed to wedge in their Hyboost 'lecy supercharger, because on a Vmax run, it's really important to make low speed boost........
Yes, same thought crossed my mind. They didn’t show much detail of the engine in the machine, but it wasn’t obvious that it was even installed.
sgtBerbatov said:
That's not a tractor. A John Deere is a tractor. You don't cross the lines when it comes to tractors.
Makes me want to get a John Deere and show how fast a real tractor can go.
Then I remember I'm poor both in time and money, and will never do it. Thoroughly enjoyed it though, even if it was with a glorified digger.
Wouldn't a digger need a way of digging... Makes me want to get a John Deere and show how fast a real tractor can go.
Then I remember I'm poor both in time and money, and will never do it. Thoroughly enjoyed it though, even if it was with a glorified digger.
It's a tractor in my book, spent many hours in an earlier variant.
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