people amaze me they really do. There was a interview somewhere in California and this person was bitching about water shortages and saying they shouldn't give it to the farms, we don't need farms...
... WHOS GOING TO FEED YOU?!
Stuck behind tractors and farm machinery
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people amaze me they really do. There was a interview somewhere in California and this person was bitching about water shortages and saying they shouldn't give it to the farms, we don't need farms...
... WHOS GOING TO FEED YOU?!
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Wow ahaha
That's right, just lookout for yourself and don't think of others.
I am entirely ambivalent
a farmer has to do his work...if I am driving or rural roads why would I need to get angry about being stuck behind a tractor...I can bide my time and overtake when its safe..why drive like an oaf and risk other peoples lives. you should never be in that much of a hurry
tractors generally only make short journeys of a few miles..people get too angry way to quickly these days
a farmer has to do his work...if I am driving or rural roads why would I need to get angry about being stuck behind a tractor...I can bide my time and overtake when its safe..why drive like an oaf and risk other peoples lives. you should never be in that much of a hurry
tractors generally only make short journeys of a few miles..people get too angry way to quickly these days
When I worked on a farm, that was probably true. Farmers owned al their own equipment and worked in their own fields within a few miles radius of the farm.
Now with cooperatively owned plant and fields often 10 or 20 miles away, in the mornings and evenings there are often convoys of tractors, trailers, harvesters, excavators, you name it.
Usually I meet all this on the A51 between Nantwich and Stone, a single carriageway but one I know well and it does have stretches suitable for passing.
The issue as has been stated above is people who are content to sit behind leaving no space between vehicles.
I probably would have been annoyed when I was younger but now I give myself enough extra time to get somewhere and it's nice and relaxing following a tractor down and A/B road when the sun is shining 
Bin lorries, why do they need to be out during the morning rush. They come around at 7 throwing the bins around and wake you up too early. Then when you leave for work you take a turn in to a side road to find it's blocked by another one and before you can reverse out there's another car behind you.
Only reason I can see is they want to finish early, why not make them collect the rubbish when the roads are quiet.
Bin lorries, why do they need to be out during the morning rush. They come around at 7 throwing the bins around and wake you up too early. Then when you leave for work you take a turn in to a side road to find it's blocked by another one and before you can reverse out there's another car behind you.
Only reason I can see is they want to finish early, why not make them collect the rubbish when the roads are quiet.
I love having a really fast car (from what I can remember) as you can overtake 10's of cars to the various flashings of oncoming cars who are shouting "you idiot, you'll never ake that" only to see you pull in 50 yards from them and then whoosh pass at 150mph with a rooster tail of dust. Ah those were the days.
So about one second from a head on collision then? No wonder they were flashing their lights.
The problem is that too many people only look at on coming traffic before pulling out to overtake. When you are doing triple their speed that doesn't leave much room to react.
To right, people should move out the way, idiots getting in my way.
I think you miss when my tongue is in my cheek, but carry on getting righteously indignant in my direction.
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Worst I'm 15 and 11 months and I get to drive a tractor soon thread ever.
Tractors have to use the road to get from farm to fields??????
And farmers have much more lenient rules reference trailers so long as its within a certain distance.
luckily in weardale and northumberland the arable farming is on a much smaller scale, so mainly still family farms farming within a few miles of the farmhouse..so I get the benefit of great uncrowded country roads with only infrequent interuptions by farm machinery
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[TW]Fox;28935064 said:
At 20MPH and based on the 2 second rule, a safe gap is around 18 metres*. That's actually quite a big gap and you won't find many drivers adhering to it (though I suppose the rule is meant for motorways to be fair).
*Think that's right!
No righteous indignation intended. To be honest I get to observe exactly what you described quite often on our wondrous A47, A17 etc single carriage way main routes into Norfolk.