Stuck behind tractors and farm machinery

SexyGreyFox said:
But it is probably their most important time for work.
The World doesn't revolve around motorists.
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So you never find it remotely frustrating sat behind a tractor doing 30 in a 60? They can do what they like, it's a shared road after all, it doesn't stop me getting frustrated every now and again though.
 
Who cares what you do? Keep doing what you're doing and let motorists worry about themselves, you've got every right to be on the road just like we have.
 
Would help if any non essential travel was voluntarily avoided in rush hour - retired people going to the shops etc
Wonder what the impact would be if even 20% of traffic could be shifted outside rush hour.
Also staggered school opening times or school bus service and flexi-time at employers would reduce traffic at peak times.

Are tractors legally required to drive so slow or just designed that way? 40mph would be enough to not cause too much delay.

Edit: Googled it 25mph limit for tractors.
 
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dholdi said:
What about all the ****e you spread all over the road ?
If you were a vehicle exiting a construction site you would be prosecuted.
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Umm... We do have to come along with a scraper and clean it up if the council say they're too busy at the time :confused:
And what else are we meant to with it city boy?!
 
Why do farmers need tractors to go on the road in the first place?

They are a hazard and the amount of road accidents that are a direct cause because a trator was on the road must be quite high.

I even saw a Fastrac overtake a tractor the other day which led me to believe that Fastrac's have a purpose to tow trailers and cause little obstruction so why are they not used more?

Tractors should be bound to their land with faster more roadworthy vehicles used to take the produce or whatever farmers like to stick in their trailers. It also does my chuff in how farmers seem to get away with what ever trailer they fancy sticking on the back of their tractors. I hardly ever see one carrying matching plates yet us road users have strict guidlines to follow regarding trailers as do lorries.
 
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Gaming4Life said:
'rush' hour to you is 9am and 5pm, rush hour for farmers is '5am going on to 10pm' - especially between May and October
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Rush hour for me in the lakes is actually one hour. There is only ever the odd tractor during rush hour and only ever every month or so, and I must pass about 20 farms on the way to work.
 
Gaming4Life said:
Umm... We do have to come along with a scraper and clean it up if the council say they're too busy at the time :confused:
And what else are we meant to with it city boy?!
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It would be nice if a better job was done, it's irritating in a car, it's downright ****ing deadly on a bike.
 
Probably the most annoying bit about tractors are the coffin dodgers who are incapable of overtaking them, they're generally easy enough to get past but not if you're the 10th car back and nobody in front is bothering.

And then, as mentioned, when they don't pull in when they're clearly able to.
 
Don't mind a tractor to be honest, they don't really have much options due to the size of the vehicle and what it's for etc. My rage is more reserved for the bloody electric milk floats that can only do 20mph, and 5mph on a slight incline. I really wish they would get with the times and get a van.
 
MooMoo444 said:
Don't mind a tractor to be honest, they don't really have much options due to the size of the vehicle and what it's for etc. My rage is more reserved for the bloody electric milk floats that can only do 20mph, and 5mph on a slight incline. I really wish they would get with the times and get a van.
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Not a problem around our way as the Supermarkets put ALL the Milko's out of business locally.

Damned near had heart failure t'other morning though driving back from our Liverpool depot. On the A6006 (i think... Zouch to Melton road) and rounded a bend and....

Bejeeeeeesus chroist - Milk float !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ice Age moment "Aint seen one of them for a while" !

Then again.. On the same road at the same kind of time (around 02:00) a bit further along I've rounded a bend and there was a Highways Agency TRUCK doing an Eleventy Bazillion point turning RIGHT ACROSS THE ROAD !

By the look in their eye.. I can see they're gonna cry.. Is it all over !!

THAT was a close call.

Oh.. This thread is about Tractors..... I was under the impression they were limited to five miles road usage per day re: red diesel road use. Swear I've followed numerous for 5 odd miles. (If it took them 5 miles to get there it must take them that to get back !)

Funny Tractor boy experience....

Several years ago I was driving a rigid eastbound on the A14 (during the late afternoon) and overtook one of those spraying tractors with the huge but skinny wheels on.

I was doing a limited 55mph.

2 miles down the road he overtook me with his engine absolutely screaming.

He must've got a real kick out of that !
 
If we want our food grown locally we have to let our farmers do their jobs.

Only issues I have is some of the things towed by tractors look like they are about to fall apart right in front of me in the middle of the road and the indicator lights are usually so covered in muck you can't see them. Patience and a safe gap in front if there is no sensible way to overtake.
 
Will be muck hauling tomorrow from 8am bringing muck back from a farm about 5 miles down the road. 4 probably on a main road.

I top out at 24 empty and a couple miles an hour slower with a full load. There is one sort of lay-by on the route but it is not long enough to pull into without the trailer hanging into the road.
Luckily it is quite an easy route to overtake on but even I get frustrated when I see someone hanging well behind blocking a long like of vehicles going past, even when I purposefully slow down.

A fastrac is an expensive bit of kit.

Pretty sure we have had neighbours fined for not scraping mud off the road before.
 
The problem here isn't the tractors - they have a job to do - but the morons who sit behind them with no ability to overtake and the succession of morons behind them who leave no gap between them and the car in front.

So by the time Pepsilol arrives at the back of the queue in his V12 he no longer has a tractor to overtake, but a tractor and a queue of 20 nose to tail morons. He can't even do it in stages because everyone is 1 foot from the car in front.
 
This thread reminds me of a very early VIZ character called Farmer Giles.
I've just tried hunting for the comic strip but it features Farmer Giles with his helper sitting on a haystack with a pair of binoculars. A few strips later he is still looking through his binoculars until he spots a vehicle in the distance.
"Quick lad, go get the tractor" and the next scene shows him driving at 5mph up a lane where the vehicle can't pass :D
 
SexyGreyFox said:
This thread reminds me of a very early VIZ character called Farmer Giles.
I've just tried hunting for the comic strip but it features Farmer Giles with his helper sitting on a haystack with a pair of binoculars. A few strips later he is still looking through his binoculars until he spots a vehicle in the distance.
"Quick lad, go get the tractor" and the next scene shows him driving at 5mph up a lane where the vehicle can't pass :D
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its farmer palmer
 
I don't mind following tractors provided they connect up light's to trailer (if they work)- nothing worse than finding overtaking place and getting half way past and tractor indicators are going for a right turn. :eek::eek:

I just follow now if it's obvious there isn't straight bit of road ahead but I leave enough room in front for BMW drivers behind who risk life and limb to get past. :rolleyes:
 
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