He's a country boy at heart, Kashluk, and boy does he know his tractors!!!Kashluk wrote:Well, he sure does seem to *know* me wellwe have ONE massey-ferguson... It's 35x (35 horses) and it sucks ass. Back from the 60's it is.
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I grew up in a small market town with farms all round me....since I've never worked on one, all my farmer mates at school used to call me a "Townie". Now I work and live in London, everybody there calls me a country boy when they hear my rural Hertfordshire (farming area) accent...Kashluk wrote:Ach, nothing beats a good ol' finnish farmer!
We're all country boys at heart, some just have this cityish mask on 'em, yup sure they have...
What about you Vik? You a country boy at heart?
Can't bloody win, can I??
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No. That's named after a town on the English - Welsh border call Hereford.Kashluk wrote:Um... I'm not sure if I'm typing this right, but when talking about the farming accent a question popped into my mind:
Is the Hereford-breed coming from that neighbourhood?
I come from a county (or district) called Hertfordshire just North of London.
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My Grand Parents have a John Deere tractor and a John Deere Lawnmower. I was taught how to drive using their John Deere Lawnmower and it was all fun and games one time I wass mowing the lawn and hit a pit. Man that sucked I got thrown off and mower got stuck. It was the first of many where I had to have my left shoulder reset.
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Shut yer hole.Janus Matchell wrote:My Grand Parents have a John Deere tractor and a John Deere Lawnmower. I was taught how to drive using their John Deere Lawnmower and it was all fun and games one time I wass mowing the lawn and hit a pit. Man that sucked I got thrown off and mower got stuck. It was the first of many where I had to have my left shoulder reset.
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Good question Kashluk. First of all, I think you did a great job with the selection of manufacturers: saves me a lot of time when tractors like the Ukrainian Boreks -- a solid work-horse in its own right, but sorely lacking in any qualities that would make it really stand out -- have been eliminated from the race before it has even truly begun.
Tractors by their very nature are purely utilitarian to me, I have no sentimental attachment to agricultural equipment. Therefore I would have to say that my favourite tractor would be the best tractor. What is the best tractor, then?
I think the most reasonable approach, this being a Fallout forum and all, would be to rate each tractor using some sort of a tractorized SPECIAL system. I will use the following statistics: Speed, Durability, Power, Handling and Features, giving each statistic a rating between 1 and 10. You could pick any number of statistics of course, but I believe these five strike an acceptable balance between accuracy and simplicity.
Now I will explain how these statistics should be assessed; again, I am hoping to be rigorous enough to make a reasonable evaluation, without getting bogged down with the minutiae of the machinery. Speed and Power are pretty self-explanatory. For speed I would assign a mean value based on acceleration and top speed and for power do the same with torque and horsepower. Handling could be tested on some kind of a special track designed for tractors, just like is done with race-cars and such. Durability should mainly take into account exposure to elements, impact damage and regular mechanical wear and tear. These all could be conducted using a variety of stress tests.
Features are a highly subjective matter, some might opt for mechanical levers instead of electrical switches for maintenance reasons for instance. I think the best course of action is to focus on what the features are, not how they are implemented. For example, a tractor may or may not have a pedal or a switch for controlling the rear differential lock; a tractor with the said feature should be rated higher in the Feature department than a tractor without.
Back to your question, Kashluk. I am a little embarrassed by how much I have written about the best tractor without saying anything about my favourite tractor. That is because my preferences are highly situational: I might prefer a tractor with high Durability over a tractor with high Power in certain weather conditions, for example, but that fact alone could hardly be considered a definition of a favourite tractor. Now, maybe there is a "perfect" tractor but I have yet to encounter it. That is why I think it's more practical to have an Excel spreadsheet of different tractor models and their statistics, so that any time I am assigned a job that requires a tractor, I can pick the perfect tractor for the job.
Tractors by their very nature are purely utilitarian to me, I have no sentimental attachment to agricultural equipment. Therefore I would have to say that my favourite tractor would be the best tractor. What is the best tractor, then?
I think the most reasonable approach, this being a Fallout forum and all, would be to rate each tractor using some sort of a tractorized SPECIAL system. I will use the following statistics: Speed, Durability, Power, Handling and Features, giving each statistic a rating between 1 and 10. You could pick any number of statistics of course, but I believe these five strike an acceptable balance between accuracy and simplicity.
Now I will explain how these statistics should be assessed; again, I am hoping to be rigorous enough to make a reasonable evaluation, without getting bogged down with the minutiae of the machinery. Speed and Power are pretty self-explanatory. For speed I would assign a mean value based on acceleration and top speed and for power do the same with torque and horsepower. Handling could be tested on some kind of a special track designed for tractors, just like is done with race-cars and such. Durability should mainly take into account exposure to elements, impact damage and regular mechanical wear and tear. These all could be conducted using a variety of stress tests.
Features are a highly subjective matter, some might opt for mechanical levers instead of electrical switches for maintenance reasons for instance. I think the best course of action is to focus on what the features are, not how they are implemented. For example, a tractor may or may not have a pedal or a switch for controlling the rear differential lock; a tractor with the said feature should be rated higher in the Feature department than a tractor without.
Back to your question, Kashluk. I am a little embarrassed by how much I have written about the best tractor without saying anything about my favourite tractor. That is because my preferences are highly situational: I might prefer a tractor with high Durability over a tractor with high Power in certain weather conditions, for example, but that fact alone could hardly be considered a definition of a favourite tractor. Now, maybe there is a "perfect" tractor but I have yet to encounter it. That is why I think it's more practical to have an Excel spreadsheet of different tractor models and their statistics, so that any time I am assigned a job that requires a tractor, I can pick the perfect tractor for the job.
Clearly the king of tractors is the Pipe and Cable Plow SPIDER F 250 Cab.
Here is why:
- Doule arm system in front
- Reinforced chassis and construction
-Installation blade in the middle of the plow
- Traction point of cable straight in front of the installation blade
-Perfect weight distribution for outstanding performance
-Two-part blade for optimal terrain adjustment
-Powerful 4 x 4 propulsion technology with differential lock
-User and service friendly
Here is why:
- Doule arm system in front
- Reinforced chassis and construction
-Installation blade in the middle of the plow
- Traction point of cable straight in front of the installation blade
-Perfect weight distribution for outstanding performance
-Two-part blade for optimal terrain adjustment
-Powerful 4 x 4 propulsion technology with differential lock
-User and service friendly
Well if you trust your dealer then I trust him too because I'll trust anyone. Anyway that settles it, this is the perfect tractor and also my favourite tractor and I will have the 6,000 psi block and these rims please. The flow control block is for plowing fields and the rims are for plowing the pu$$y.
