The speed limit for tractors is currently 20 mph....my beef is that they now travel faster than this, in my view making them harder to get past so the queues behind them get longer.
Tractors are now allowed to go up to 25 miles per hour on the road, not 20
I do admit that I no longer pull over to let cars pass me, reason being after pulling over all of the time and watching cars pass giving rude hand signals!! swearing etc! it kinda puts you off....
Yes my tractor takes up just over half the road around here in the case of little country lanes, but they will alwasy do this in the countryside... in the old days big old horses and carts would have done the same!!! and narrow minded little chickens would have complained the same way
If a tractor was to be like a "lorry" on the road there would be no way it would be able to go offroad, no point arguing, thats a fact, torque to ground power ratio and horsepower distribution would not allow a vehicle who can go smoothly and softly on road at speeds with a high gear ratio box to pull a 5 furrow plough in a wet clay field
this means we would have to run two types of tractors, ones that stay in the fields and ones that run on the roads to allow the "high and mighty" moaning parts of the general public to speed along before getting stuck behind a traffic light...
So the cost of trailering the tractor to the field, going back to the farm, trailering your wheat trailer to the field, going back to the farm, and then getting the "road tractor" up and running, and waiting on the road outside of the field (blocking the road),
Then employing another guy to be running the off road tractor alongside the combine, trailer it to the edge of the field, tip it out onto some sort of clean concrete shed (in the field) and go back to the combine as it cant leave it for very long, whilst someone loads the grain with a JCB into the "road tractor", then the road tractor can leave to its destination and red tip the grain and then start heading back.
So the employment of 3 people vs 1, 3 machines vs 1, 3 tanks of fuel vs 1, insurance for 3 vehicles vs 1, depreciation of the 3 vehicles vs 1, paying off of the 3 vehicles vs 1 and the trailereing the tractor plus implement to the field.
This would probly mean food price would go up 4 times the amount as this is more than 3 times the amount of costings running the farm,
so then you can go and drive in your little car (un-hindered by a tractor) into the shop and pay £400 per week rather than £100 for your weekly shop, and then sit and eat yourself full on your £4 bottle of milk and your £5 loaf of bread and your £30 block of cheese and your £16 pack of chicken, you can sit and smile to yourself knowing that its all alright as you didnt get stuck behind a tractor and waste £2 worth of petrol.....
Come and complain if you give up eating food made by farmers