Just a bit of context. This area and tens of thousands of acres up the east coast of the UK have had unprecedented amounts of rain during a very busy period in a highly productive arable/ vegetable cropping area. These guys will have been prevented from completing anywhere near enough of their autumn land work load. There is a lot at stake and they need to prepare for spring work so I imagine that this is occurring out of sheer desperation to get something sorted
When it’s that wet, Mother Nature is telling you to keep off. But we’ve engineered beyond what Mother Nature sends us by developing machines like this, and then we wonder why the land is in such a state. That headland will be like a bloody road.
I drive a Challenger 765c and the biggest problem I’ve had this year is traction. They don’t have a diff lock so any slimey conditions and one track slips while the other doesn’t move. Very frustrating. If it were possible I’d have parked it up and got a 4wd tractor out, and that’s what these guys should’ve done.
Rubber tracks are great until they slip, as soon as the cleats gets full of mud they are a glorified set of slicks! A track Marshall would be better than this
Desperate times call for desperate measures. As a farmer only a few miles from Holbeach (which is in south Lincolnshire) I appreciate the problem these farmers have. Every week since July has been wetter than the week before and eventually at some point you have to bite the bullet and get on with things. The work never stops backing up and to justify that sort of machinery they obviously have a lot to do.
In Scotland you expect it to be wet 11 months of the year and farm accordingly, here in East Anglia we do expect a few dry weeks when we can zoom round with expensive machinery and get the work done, however the weather has definitely changed over the last few years and we may have to rethink things. I guess this field is destined for a spring crop which will allow the frost to break the soil down over the next few months.
Seems like a good idea to me given the circumstances, they have a low PSI as well so not much compaction really, probably no more psi than a human foot print or a cart horse.
Thats one way to make a quad track, lol. Poor farmers must have had a terrible year if it's that wet and they are that deaperate. That is an unbelievably expensive way to cause a huge amount of compaction
@tumshiepuss I'm aware of the low psi from tracks. I'm an agricultural engineer and also a farmer. I don't care how low your ground pressure is, anytime you are working in soil that wet it has a major negative impact due to the moisture in the soil and the weight of all that water
@@8DeereFarm I’m a farmer and an engineer myself. We have a John Deere 8410T. It could drive over a wet field and cause less compaction than a Wellington boot - it couldn’t pull anything though because as soon as the tracks start to slip they fill with mud and don’t clean. These guys aren’t causing much compaction.
400cv calé sur 6cors... La nature est entrain de dire à ses agriculteurs qu'ils feraient mieux de rester au chaud chez eux. Et dernière question, s'il repleut est ce qu'il mette un troisième Fendt devant ?
Why not tie the tire with two cables? It is much easier for tractors, there is no big swing and it has better cushioning I have been doing this for years
Yet they can’t wait and need to plow. This is a million dollar operation and you from your PC / phone think you know better? Sometimes it’s good to stfu. There’s more to the world than whatever you think you know. These are professionals running 600.000€ machinery JUST to plow this field and you think you know better? Give me a break.
i would say not the best thing to do and I understand its been wet but this is not great better to just cultivate in a dryer period or direct drill , but we do not know the circemstsnces
Il y a 40 un fiat 1580 et des roue crampons Somac 6 socs réversible bonnel dans un arrachage de betterave avec des ornières profonde comme mon genoux et je labourer tranquille à 5/ 6 km h Il est où le progres
Its always been tax payers money, try putting a stop to it the farming lobbyists in Westminster would be after your blood !!! Farm welfare is the name!
VIDEO = great , 10/10 point of that work = 0/ 10 super clayey soil + high moisture , and you are plowing it ???!! without tax payers subsidy , this would be super-minus (not even close to profit). look at Brazil, Australia, CA, USA. ... - how they prepare their soils ... what a waste of tax payers money .... sad ... 😔
