Thursday, October 04, 2007

I've got a brand new combine harvester.....(no, make that a tractor)

Tony & Mary live out in the country, & with the size of their plot of land it makes sense to have a tractor. Tony bought a new John Deere & was kind enough to let me have a drive. I only drove it around their garden & had a play with the hydraulically operated bucket, but he wanted to show us what it could do. It has a top speed close to 30 mph, which might not sound like much, but when you are driving along a gravel road & don't have any suspension (other than the tyre sidewalls) it gets pretty lairy!