Tractors on main roads

[maggie]

Dunno if its been mentioned before- know they have to use the main roads but still, even when its pi**ing it down like today, still 3 of them on a 5 mile stretch of road. FFS

[TacadoirArdMhacha]

Farmer's have a days work to do as well but ya need to show a bit of courtesy and pull in every so often.

[the Deel Rover]

aye and farmers pay their road tax as well don't they

[screenexile]

Feckin farming bastards... I'm likely to get stuck behind 3 on the way to work and 3 on the way home... why can't they wait until 9 and 6 to do their runs? I've seen some maniac manouevres on the way to work and while these hot headed wankers have to be condemned the Tractor's also have to take their fair share of the blame!

[Tony Baloney]

Agreed - I travel the main Armagh to Portadown Road every day for work and even though there is a hard-shoulder affair the entire length of the road they still refuse to pull over.  They need to have the courtesy to let people pass that are doing a proper days work 

[Yes I Would]

Try the Newry to Hilltown Road someday, anyday, any time of day, and yous will know all about it!!

[ONeill]

Sometimes I borrow the tractor from home and just drive around Armagh.

[20leg-end08]

Sometimes I borrow the tractor from home and just drive around Armagh.

[The Real Laoislad]

Feckin farming b**tards... I'm likely to get stuck behind 3 on the way to work and 3 on the way home... why can't they wait until 9 and 6 to do their runs? I've seen some maniac manouevres on the way to work and while these hot headed w**kers have to be condemned the Tractor's also have to take their fair share of the blame!

Why can't you go to work an hour earlier and leave an hour later?

[J70]

Back in my farming days I used to always pull onto the shoulder, or if on a back road, a suitable entrance or gap, to let cars pass. Most farmers around the area I'm from do the same. Not being the most patient driver it drives me mad when tractor drivers pass up opportunities to allow people to pass them. If they've a load on, fair enough, but there's no excuse for some boy with just a linkbox or a haybob on the back holding people up for more than a couple of minutes.

[ExiledGael]

Shower a bastards

[The Real Laoislad]

but there's no excuse for some boy with just a linkbox or a haybob on the back holding people up for more than a couple of minutes.

Jaysis you'll really confuse the Dubs on the board with that...I remember a few months back they were lost as to what a round baler was! 

[Maguire01]

Feckin farming b**tards... I'm likely to get stuck behind 3 on the way to work and 3 on the way home... why can't they wait until 9 and 6 to do their runs? I've seen some maniac manouevres on the way to work and while these hot headed w**kers have to be condemned the Tractor's also have to take their fair share of the blame!

Why can't you go to work an hour earlier and leave an hour later?

Eh, probably because most people can't dictate their working hours, unlike the farmers.
Yes, it's extremely annoying when they refuse to pull in.

[balladmaker]

Tractors should not be allowed on main roads during rush hour....say 7 to 9 each morning and 4 to 6 each evening.  There was one on the road between Moira and Nutts Corner (one of the main routes to Belfast International Airport) the other morning at 8am, the queue behind it must have been a couple of miles long!  Is it any wonder people get frustrated and cause crashes when trying to over take!

[youngfella]

I;d love to drive around the city with a tractor with a good leaky muck spreader to sicken the city folk