Yes, the right place.

[TWR]

I know this is motoring but whats your views, farm Tractors are becoming more of a regular thing on the roads with pulling trailers etc, they are travelling miles with either Manure, cuttings, Plant machinery EG/ mini diggers etc, how do they get away with running Red Diesel, low road tax?

[Maydup]

Its just that time of year TWR. They're everywhere at the moment and I was about to post similar myself when I decided against it.

Instead I'm pleased the farmers have a harvest to bring in and manure to spread. Its not as if they take their tractors to the cinema or to the supermarket is it? Who'd be without them really eh?

[funnygirl]

We don't get such things in London!!!

[B00]

Yay, ive missed you whilst on my jollies TWR, ya grumpy bugger, hello :-)

[cazzz1975]

its not like they go to asda or do the school run in it though twr

[sandyRoe]

funnygirl, aren't there Chelsea Tractors in London?

[TWR]

Hiya Boo, have you been far? & good weather? Excluded Trim, I do expect Tractors to go from field to field but to travel in excess of 10 miles with a vehicle that is designed for fields, I have just come across a road near where I live, there is SHT strewn out over a period of 2 >> 3 miles, If that was a HGV leaving that cr@p on the road, the driver would get done, would you say nothing if you slid into another car because of this muck on the road?

[Hopkirk]

I work with a guy who used to have a job on road resurfacing.

He says they ran all their vehicles on red diesel, as it counts as 'plant'.

[scotman]

Long time since I was involved in this but there used to be a limit on distance for agricultural vehicles on public highway.

[TWR]

No Probs Housemouse, Scotman, there was also a ruling at one time if there was a certain No of Cars / etc building up behind a Tractor, the tractor had to pull in to let the traffic pass, DO THEY?

[Rapunzel61]

well how do they get equipment from one place to another - what do you expect them to do, sprout wings and fly? It's not like they're stealing the fuel for a leisure day out is it?

[TWR]

If your car was running red you would get fined, I don't need your sarci or stupid answers Rapunzel, I think the qs was about tractors travelling vast distances on the highways when they are made for fields, between fields there are gates have you ever seen them? yes, they have to move their machinery, but how far do you call how far? 3>4>5 miles? & leaving a lot of sht on the roads in the meantime.

[cazzz1975]

so if he didnt leave sh*t in the road would it be okay then?

[TWR]

Amen.

[ChuckFickens]

Who do you think would pay the extra costs if farmers had to pay tax on their fuel and vehicles.

The Farmer, the shops..... or you and me on the cost of the goods?

[TWR]

????? Can you remember the spuds going up because there was a lack of rain in the dry & hot summer we once had?? did they come down in price when we got floods etc??

[Maydup]

Fields and farms are larger TWR - distance between the muck and the field to spread it on is further. Better the tractor and the sh*t on the road than the horse and cart which used to produce even more of the stuff.

Come on.........be grateful you live in an area with sh*t on the road and not one where its nose to tail Chelsea tractors. Can't believe I'm standing up for the farmers, I must be getting soft!

[TWR]

Christ, I am not knocking the farmers we are friends with a lot of them, the question was, it has become a regular thing, on the point of sht on the roads, how many of you have encountered a slide due to the road been wet and slippery because of this, I should I have not bothered asking the qs?