Some pictures around the village.

Picture 1 is a view over the land to the north of the village. The oil-seed rape is just starting to come into flower.
Picture 2 is a shot showing the back yard of our local machinery dealer.
Pictures 3 and 4 are front views of the dealer. I don't know where he sells the tractors. Of the three biggest farms in the area, 1 is all New Holland, 1 is mostly Cat and the 3rd has a mixed collection of Massey-Ferguson, Valmet and an old Fiat.
Picture 5 is an old cart in a yard on the mainstreet. According to its owner, "It was running when Grandad parked it."
Pictures 6 and 7.In a thread some days ago, someone asked for help eliminating ground hogs. I do not know what a ground hog is, But I find these 2 ladies ok for eliminating rats, cats and rabbits. They will also have a go at any dog bigger than they are.No-one has told them that they are small.
I hope you find the pictures interesting. Phil
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LOVE those pictures!

Soon as I saw the first picture I figured that was rape. We typically raise 300 to 400 acres of it"s descendant, canola, on my farm in north North Dakota. Close to one MILLION acres is raised in the state.
 
Amazing anyone posting here hasn't experienced ground hogs. Aren't they indigenous worldwide? You're lucky not to have to deal with them.
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(quoted from post at 10:21:41 04/28/13) The picture of the old cart looks like the hitch is out where someone going by would easily get snagged on it.

It's the camera angle.
 
Thanks for the picture of a groundhog.We don't have them in Europe. I have shown the picture to the 2 dogs, they reckon that any animal that eats flowers is no challenge! The 2 Doberman Pinchers in the village are scared of them. LOL, Phil
 
Yes, its the camera angle. When the old horse drew it into position in about 1950, he stood on the drive and left the ends of the shafts in the grass. They were lifted up to make cutting the grass easier. It's a shame,but the entire cart is rotted out, probably not even firewood. It was made here in the village by the carpenter probably before the first World war and has never left the farm.Phil
 
We don't have ground hogs in most of Europe. Only in the Alps. A little different from the American ones I think.
 
Nice pics Phil. I see you are not greened up yet....I mean the grass not the tractors! John Deeres seem to be losing their edge over here also with a lot more blue New Hollands and Masseys taking over....The way they treat their dealers he may not be selling green tractors much longer!
Sam
 
We don't have groundhogs here in Southeastern NC, either. I have read about "varmint hunting" and the long-range rifles they use but have not heard anyone talk about eating them. Squirrels are commonly hunted and eaten here and I like them, but does anyone know what groundhog meat is like?
 
Phil. I've seen a lot of pics ad You Tube videos from Europe. It seems the Rover is used like we use a pickup truck here. Other than the occasional little Toyota or Mitsubishi, I never see ANY pickups in pics from Europe. Why is that? Is there something about pickups that don't jibe with the way you do things over there?
 
Ha! When I rolled into pic #2 my first impression was that you had a JD nut in your hood. Had it been, would have been the largest collection I had seen.

Mark
 
Brett, I think it is a matter of "Fashion".Pickups tend to be used by people who pretend to be rugged, off-road, muscular he-men. The pick-up tends to be a fashion statement.They are expensive to buy and run, farmers tend to watch the pennies, why buy a pickup AND a tractor? Some workers do use them, generally if they have a job which requires them to carry tools and materials, for long distances between jobs. Remember, our country is a lot smaller than yours, we dont have gravel roads and a panel van is cheaper and more secure.
Hope that sort of puts some light on the question. I have the Land Rover Discovery to pull my trailer caravan. Although I live in the heart of the English countryside, almost all of my driving could be done in the smallest of Japanese saloon cars at any time of the year.I can be at either end of the country in about 9 hours, with paved roads all the way.Phil
 
No, we don't have a John Deere collector in the neighbourhood.The best I can offer is a guy about 15 miles away who has about 200 Cats, Holts and Bests. His yard is something else! Phil.
 
(quoted from post at 05:52:45 04/29/13) Brett, I think it is a matter of "Fashion".Pickups tend to be used by people who pretend to be rugged, off-road, muscular he-men. The pick-up tends to be a fashion statement.They are expensive to buy and run, farmers tend to watch the pennies, why buy a pickup AND a tractor? Some workers do use them, generally if they have a job which requires them to carry tools and materials, for long distances between jobs. Remember, our country is a lot smaller than yours, we dont have gravel roads and a panel van is cheaper and more secure.
Hope that sort of puts some light on the question. I have the Land Rover Discovery to pull my trailer caravan. Although I live in the heart of the English countryside, almost all of my driving could be done in the smallest of Japanese saloon cars at any time of the year.I can be at either end of the country in about 9 hours, with paved roads all the way.Phil

Here, it would make no sense to buy a panel van and a trailer when you can put a cap on the pickup or take it off much cheaper.

We also have the "fashion statement" types here. They drive Rovers and Mini Coopers and Jags! :lol:
 
I think there are major differences in the way we live, Bret.What would we use a pickup for, if we had to lift the top off? What do you move around that cannot be done on a tractor? Carrying tools can be done in a transport box on the 3 link on the tractor. You can put 2 round bales on spikes on the FEL and 1 more on a spike on the 3 Link. Anymore, just hitch up to a trailor.What do you fetch from town that needs a pickup? Because we live closer together than you, almost every business will deliver FOC, so why go to town to fetch stuff? If you go to a social occasion, why go in a pickup that may be dirty, untidy and can only carry 2 people in comfort, 4 people on discomfort. Buy a saloon car and all 4 travel in comfort in clean conditions.If you need to regularly move stuff between farms on the highway, buy a JCB Fastrac and travel down the highway at 50MPH, then use it for ploughing.
As I said, over here, USA style pickups are fashion, Rovers, Jaguars, Mini-Coopers are just cars, nothing special.When I collect my hire car from Hertz in San Francisco, or Vancouver. I ask for the biggest thing they have. Last time, I got a huge ( to me ) Chrysler. It did not stand out in parking lots, it was just another car on its home ground.
Panel vans over here are cheap, and no-one can see whats in the back, so are favoured for security.
It seems to boil down to the fact that we are a smaller country, with much shorter distances to travel, on better roads.I would love an American pickup truck, but my Rover, towing my trailer caravan, gets 34 miles per gallon, and fits our roads better, so thats what I have. Phil
 
I'm sure it works for you Phil. But over here few people would try to move things or carry feed for instance in a van, especially the little rigs you guys have. You toss it into the pickup and when it comes time to unload you can stand upright in the back. From what I've seen you all use trailers a lot more than most of us. Over here no one would think of farming using a mini van and trailer and no feed dealer will deliver anything free of charge.

To each their own I guess. Of course you have to license tractors over there too I believe. Hope that never happens here!
 
I may not have made myself clear. No farmer would move feed in a panel van, he would use a tractor and trailer. This is where the Ferguson 2 wheel trailer and the pickup hitch on the trasctor score the points.I meant to show that anyone working on a farm, who did not need the strength and load capacity of a tractor and trailer, would, in all probability, use a van. These would be fencing contractors, utility workers, builders and so forth.We have big problems with casual thefts,an open pickup is not an option to workers.
I have driven for 1 of our local suppliers, I drove 30 miles to deliver, FOC, a 1/2inch paintbrush.I was in a truck working at 40.000lbs gross. If we did not deliver, someone else would. Phil
 
I get it. But here no one would use a farm tractor and trailer to get feed- it's 18 miles to my feed dealer, 45 to the next and most of our older tractors top out at 15-18 mph. In fact in my state a tractor or any farm implement is limited by law to 25 mph or less. The only delivery offered is by tractor trailer load or by 10 wheeled dump truck type rig. I don't know of any feed dealers delivering, say, half a ton of feed or a mixed load of feed and other supplies. I suppose you could get it done, but it would cost you quite a bit. Driving 40 miles to deliver a paintbrush free of charge?!!! That business would be out of business with practices like that here.

The theft thing, that's too bad. A cap on the pickup bed or locking tool box is how we get around it.

Thanks for the info, it explains a lot.
 

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