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Re: OT - Are tractors getting bigger?
« Reply #15 on: February 03, 2021, 05:43:32 PM »
....and faster. The JCB Fastrac is made to various specs up to 50mph. As a stunt they got one to 106mph on an airfield...

....and yes, on narrow country roads they are frighteningly large/fast. A couple of years ago a neighbour was hit while driving his, Zero damage to the tractor, small ford car totalled... 
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Re: OT - Are tractors getting bigger?
« Reply #16 on: February 03, 2021, 05:47:32 PM »
They should bring back the man with the red flag !
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Re: OT - Are tractors getting bigger?
« Reply #17 on: February 03, 2021, 05:55:01 PM »
Quote from: Genem on February 03, 2021, 05:43:32 PM
....and faster. The JCB Fastrac is made to various specs up to 50mph. As a stunt they got one to 106mph on an airfield...

....and yes, on narrow country roads they are frighteningly large/fast. A couple of years ago a neighbour was hit while driving his, Zero damage to the tractor, small ford car totalled...
I only live 3 miles away from the plant that makes the Fastrac and I can tell you they don't need an airfield to reach those speeds when the test drivers are on the roads carrying out there new vehicle checks :RHD :agh :-X :-X
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Re: OT - Are tractors getting bigger?
« Reply #18 on: February 03, 2021, 06:02:32 PM »
Bigger and bigger because they now pull bigger and bigger kit. When you consider a tractor pulling 3 to 5 blade blades was the norm back in the 80s now 10+ blades. Bigger and bigger trailers because the bails are bigger. Etc etc.
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« Reply #19 on: February 03, 2021, 06:08:47 PM »
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Re: OT - Are tractors getting bigger?
« Reply #20 on: February 03, 2021, 06:11:13 PM »
Quote from: ashowman on February 03, 2021, 05:40:38 PM
Still love the look of a County Super 4.

I had to look that up... turning circle must be good for a laugh!  :-X
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Re: OT - Are tractors getting bigger?
« Reply #21 on: February 03, 2021, 06:16:14 PM »
Quote from: vod80 on February 03, 2021, 06:11:13 PM
I had to look that up... turning circle must be good for a laugh!  :-X
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Re: OT - Are tractors getting bigger?
« Reply #22 on: February 03, 2021, 07:03:37 PM »
What about the John Doe? That has a really interesting turning circle.
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Re: OT - Are tractors getting bigger?
« Reply #23 on: February 03, 2021, 07:32:30 PM »
Quote from: Genem on February 03, 2021, 05:43:32 PM
....and faster. The JCB Fastrac is made to various specs up to 50mph. As a stunt they got one to 106mph on an airfield...

....and yes, on narrow country roads they are frighteningly large/fast. A couple of years ago a neighbour was hit while driving his, Zero damage to the tractor, small ford car totalled...

There is a firewood dealer around here uses one of these with a log trailer I am sure that does 106mph with a trailer full of tree trunks on the hitch.
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Re: OT - Are tractors getting bigger?
« Reply #24 on: February 03, 2021, 07:47:37 PM »
Quote from: ashowman on February 03, 2021, 05:40:38 PM
Still love the look of a County Super 4.

We had a County at work for overhead pole erection.

One day access was required across a field with Special Scientific Interest that required overseeing by Natural England or similar. The Natural England representative was in hand to make sure that the field was not damaged due to the presence of some rare depressions of great archaeological interest.

One of the chargehands took great delight in informing the representative that the archaeological depressions were in fact not from the Iron Age at all, rather from many years previously when the Land Rovers doing the initial line erection got bogged down, as did the lorry and Unimog that went out to tow them out. All were finally towed out by the company County, causing many depressions!

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Re: OT - Are tractors getting bigger?
« Reply #25 on: February 03, 2021, 08:17:57 PM »
Correction to my previous posting.
The tractor isn't a John Doe, it's called a Doe, manufactured by Ernest Doe.
I was confusing Deers and Does.
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Re: OT - Are tractors getting bigger?
« Reply #26 on: February 03, 2021, 08:44:21 PM »
Ah! A Doe triple D. 2 Majors joined at the hip.
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Re: OT - Are tractors getting bigger?
« Reply #27 on: February 03, 2021, 08:44:57 PM »
Arrr.... tiz me!!

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Re: OT - Are tractors getting bigger?
« Reply #28 on: February 03, 2021, 08:58:28 PM »
Doe triple-D.  Now, that's proper tractor!

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Re: OT - Are tractors getting bigger?
« Reply #29 on: February 03, 2021, 09:30:05 PM »
Quote from: Neil Bymouth on February 03, 2021, 08:17:57 PM
Correction to my previous posting.
The tractor isn't a John Doe, it's called a Doe, manufactured by Ernest Doe.
I was confusing Deers and Does.

Doe a deer a female deer ray a drop of golden sun
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