The Tractor and machinery thread

[mudsticks]

MBIFO front of something machinery and farmey. View attachment 522059

Well its a gurt big subsoiler, mostly used to break up compaction, caused by

MBIFO a big tractor. View attachment 523964

Gurt big tractors with boom sprayers such as this...

It's a vicious circle of biggering and biggering.

But as our current chair of efra remarked to me.

"You won't easily get the boys off of their toys*"

Bigger tractors, bigger expense, tighter margins, higher fuel and machinery costs, chasing the cost of borrowing for or leasing all this kit.

The commodity buyers know the cost of production, and production rates, they can speculate on futures, its a buyers market

But It's not about growing food for human nutrition any more.

It's extractive business, which is trashing our soils, and not feeding us well.

But don't blame the farmer - they're doing what the 'experts' and the bank tell them they must - peer pressure, and 'business as usual' is as rife in agriculture as anywhere else.

Going against all that and saying

"But what about our soils?
What about ecology?
What about human nutrition?"

Gets you laughed at in conventional farming circles.

But somehow it's making some of us a living all the same

* I used to charge about on contraptions, such as this.. And yes it's kinda fun for a while.
But after a while it gets a tad soul (and soil) destroying..

 

[oldwheels]

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Stock photo, but has anyone else used one of these?
I cut about half an acre of grass in an inaccessible paddock about 44 years ago.

I still ache 🤪

I used one on my grandfathers croft when I went there for summer holidays over 60 years ago now.

 

[Solocle]

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

In the fields, up near HMP New Hall, on the Overton side of it

August 2012 images

 

[nagden]

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Stock photo, but has anyone else used one of these?
I cut about half an acre of grass in an inaccessible paddock about 44 years ago.

I still ache 🤪

Yes I have and I use it all the time. I have an anvil

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Stock photo, but has anyone else used one of these?
I cut about half an acre of grass in an inaccessible paddock about 44 years ago.

I still ache 🤪

Yes I have. I use it all the time. I have a small anvil to peen the blade and get it really sharp. I find it a pleasure to use.

 

[PeteXXX]

Yes I have and I use it all the time. I have an anvil

Yes I have. I use it all the time. I have a small anvil to peen the blade and get it really sharp. I find it a pleasure to use.

I guess if you use one a lot, the relevant muscles get fitter!

 

[biggs682]

One from this morning's ride a plough and a lovely view .

 

[Darius_Jedburgh]

A local John Deere dealer

 

[tyred]

Saw a DB 995 out earning it's keep today with a nice load of spuds.

I regularly see old MFs, Fords and Zetors still working but it's rare to see a David Brown, International, Nuffield/Leyland/Marshall or Lamborghini still working. I wonder why

 

[tyred]

Spotted a Ford "Force" 3000 mowing grass with what I think is a McCormack fingerbar mower. I was tempted to ask if I could cut a few swathes for him

.

 

[tyred]

I used my 165 this evening to move some paving stones and other bits and pieces around.

 

[gtmet]

Banwell Hill, where this old tractor went to die.

 

[tyred]

Mf 35 in it's working clothes

 

[PeteXXX]

A couple of the tractors used at the Banger Racing track at Brafield to tow the knackered cars away after the races.

 

[classic33]

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A couple of the tractors used at the Banger Racing track at Brafield to tow the knackered cars away after the races.

Why a slurry tanker?