Angry farmer on tractor disrupts hill climb event

fenix wrote:

Farmers are incredibly busy. He may have been ferrying stuff to and from the farm or fields down the lane. He might not have been disrupting it on purpose ?

It's perfectly feasible he had to do this at that specific time. Just like the cyclists had to hold their HC at that time.

Are you taking the piss? Farmers spend most of the time doing fuck all and get a three figure salary from the EU to do so. My dad's a farmer as was his dad who had to work hard for a living, nowadays if he actually grew crops or reared livestock on a commercial scale he would barely earn the minimum wage so instead he drives his tractor around Cheshire holding people up and spreading shit on the road because it's the cheapest way to dispose of it. Sure my dad's a tosser but you gotta love modern society.

Farmers spend most of the time doing fuck all and get a three figure salary from the EU to do so.

Well, for a three figure salary - let's be generous and call that £999/year - you can hardly expect them to do very much, can you?

kraut wrote:

Farmers spend most of the time doing fuck all and get a three figure salary from the EU to do so.

Well, for a three figure salary - let's be generous and call that £999/year - you can hardly expect them to do very much, can you?

Oh shit! From they way he brags I always assumed he was talking about thousands of pounds, now I realise I've been looking at things totally the wrong way my entire life

Riiiight. So all the farmers I see working weekends and evenings and mornings - they're doing fuck all ? Why not take it easy and do fuck all at home and reap the cash in ? Seems to me they're out working usually whilst we are off having fun ?

drfabulous0 wrote:

fenix wrote:

Farmers are incredibly busy. He may have been ferrying stuff to and from the farm or fields down the lane. He might not have been disrupting it on purpose ?

It's perfectly feasible he had to do this at that specific time. Just like the cyclists had to hold their HC at that time.

Are you taking the piss? Farmers spend most of the time doing fuck all and get a three figure salary from the EU to do so. My dad's a farmer as was his dad who had to work hard for a living, nowadays if he actually grew crops or reared livestock on a commercial scale he would barely earn the minimum wage so instead he drives his tractor around Cheshire holding people up and spreading shit on the road because it's the cheapest way to dispose of it. Sure my dad's a tosser but you gotta love modern society.

You may have the salary wrong but you're right about spreading shit on the road. I've been riding through the evidence.

not suggesting for one minute that his actions were right, but maybe he was trying to get on with his work which involved driving a tractor up and down a narrow lane? From his point of view, that was impeded by a bunch of cyclists blocking it up for a couple of hours.

Absolutely right. Ban cyclists off the road just incase they slow down trucks, taxis or any other person making a livelihood on the road! Oh I know may be we should ban tractors as well I think they may prevent these other drivers earning a living? ............... Get real the farmer was being a f**king w@*k*r!

Guyz2010 wrote:

Not great behaviour but better to cancel than risk injury. Try another day without notice or cycle up and down his lane really slowly when he's trying to do what he wants. NIMBY

Well no actually. Better to ask the police to deal with a menacing farmer in a tractor trying to be nuisance and prevent people going about their lawful business. It's a public order offence.

If you cancel then next time he won't even have to waste the diesel. He'll just have to make it known he might be annoyed. If you let people like this intimidate you off the road or into cancelling events then they will carry on with that succesful tactic.

Report it. Video and document it. Get the police to attend next time. But don't try to appease aggressors it doesn't work.

“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
― Winston S. Churchill

What's your logic for this view? I've had no problems riding in France (lived in Toulouse & rode in the surrounding countryside).