Tractor pushes parked cars out of the way
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Wrote a lengthy post, but thought I would keep it short:
Walkers/tourists line a country road with parked cars while they go off for the day into the mountains.
Local farmer is going about his business, comes along with a very large tractor and pulling a large cattle trailer. He comes to the row of parked cars, can't fit though, and can't reverse either because there is nowhere to reverse to, can't turn around, plus he has work to attend to.
Nothing else he can do but push his way through the parked cars.
No note was left, and no one is sure which farmer it was (although the John Deere green paint may narrow it down).
Result: Lots of furious walkers who are now all calling for the farmer to be prosecuted, and demanding to know whose insurance will pay for all this.
Thoughts?
Walkers/tourists line a country road with parked cars while they go off for the day into the mountains.
Local farmer is going about his business, comes along with a very large tractor and pulling a large cattle trailer. He comes to the row of parked cars, can't fit though, and can't reverse either because there is nowhere to reverse to, can't turn around, plus he has work to attend to.
Nothing else he can do but push his way through the parked cars.
No note was left, and no one is sure which farmer it was (although the John Deere green paint may narrow it down).
Result: Lots of furious walkers who are now all calling for the farmer to be prosecuted, and demanding to know whose insurance will pay for all this.
Thoughts?
Lord Marylebone said:
Wrote a lengthy post, but thought I would keep it short:
Walkers/tourists line a country road with parked cars while they go off for the day into the mountains.
Local farmer is going about his business, comes along with a very large tractor and pulling a large cattle trailer. He comes to the row of parked cars, can't fit though, and can't reverse either because there is nowhere to reverse to, can't turn around, plus he has work to attend to.
Nothing else he can do but push his way through the parked cars.
No note was left, and no one is sure which farmer it was (although the John Deere green paint may narrow it down).
Result: Lots of furious walkers who are now all calling for the farmer to be prosecuted, and demanding to know whose insurance will pay for all this.
Thoughts?
fWalkers/tourists line a country road with parked cars while they go off for the day into the mountains.
Local farmer is going about his business, comes along with a very large tractor and pulling a large cattle trailer. He comes to the row of parked cars, can't fit though, and can't reverse either because there is nowhere to reverse to, can't turn around, plus he has work to attend to.
Nothing else he can do but push his way through the parked cars.
No note was left, and no one is sure which farmer it was (although the John Deere green paint may narrow it down).
Result: Lots of furious walkers who are now all calling for the farmer to be prosecuted, and demanding to know whose insurance will pay for all this.
Thoughts?
king hell.That is brutal.
Farmer is a complete w
ker irrespective of how the other cars were parked.A ballsy move indeed, but knobbish. (They tend to go hand in hand).
Willy Nilly said:
I've wanted to do that but never had the balls.
I've been tempted too I must admit, never would though, however my bucket list does contain giving <40mph b-road doddlers a helping shunt (think, the latest James Bond and the Fiat 500 scene), and renting a bulldozer and having a terrible accident relating to local speed bumps and speed cameras. 
Willy Nilly said:
I've wanted to do that but never had the balls.
PS, that won't have been a "very large tractor". they don't live in that sort of area.
It depends on your definition of 'very large'.PS, that won't have been a "very large tractor". they don't live in that sort of area.
Edited by Willy Nilly on Sunday 12th November 21:12
It certainly won't have been a Case Quadtrac, but tractors in these parts have grown massively in the last few years and it isn't uncommon for even the hill farmers to have things like a 6000 series John Deere or similar.
The Mad Monk said:
What was the farmer supposed to do?
Wait patiently until the very last walker had come back?
Presumably they hadn't blocked the road fully. Normal car / van / fire engine probably could get by. Wait patiently until the very last walker had come back?
Can't say we all haven't parked similarly in the past.
Certainly the farmer doesn't have the right to smash up cars and then drive off without leaving a note.
That is actually a criminal offence.
Lord Marylebone said:
It depends on your definition of 'very large'.
It certainly won't have been a Case Quadtrac, but tractors in these parts have grown massively in the last few years and it isn't uncommon for even the hill farmers to have things like a 6000 series John Deere or similar.
It may well have been a 6000 series Deere, but it was probably one of the small framed models. It certainly won't have been a Case Quadtrac, but tractors in these parts have grown massively in the last few years and it isn't uncommon for even the hill farmers to have things like a 6000 series John Deere or similar.
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