05-26-2018, 05:44 PM
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3 minutes ago, 30-30 said:
The tractors and its accessoires/tools are bought according to the size of the land you have. Just imagine having one hectare of greenland and trying to mow that with a ordinary garden lawnmower with a cut width of approx. 60 - 75 centimetres...remember, one hectare is 100 m x 100 m of land..or two whole football fields (it´s still football, not soccer, you overseas barbarians.. [img]<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/wink.png[/img]/emoticons/[email protected] 2x" title=";)" width="20" /> ). You´d be busy for an entire week with just simply mowing that one lousy hectare. People with tractors like the linked ones usually have shitloads of land and so they need huge motorisation tractors that can attach cutworks with a width in the meters range so they can work more economically. Cut width 1 m = 100 times slowly driving 100 meter long lanes on one hectare; cut width 3 meters = 33-34 lanes á 100 meter. First example´s total = 10 km driving versus the 3,4 kilometers of the second example...it´s the time , the fuel and the reduced turns you have to take when you finish one lane that makes wider cutworks obligatory. And now imagine owning some 100- 500 hectares of land...you can´t do that without adaequately sized machinery without delays...and nature doesn´t wait for the farmer..if the grass/corn/wheat/rye or whatever needs to be harvested is ready, then you need to get it into the barns quickly. Sometimes , one more day is what´s the only thing between spledid harvest and complete rot. Without these huge tractors, farms with more than 15 or 20 hectares of land wouldn´t be possible without a literal army of seasonal workers involved. Remember, we´re talking about INDUSTRIALISED agriculture here, so heavy and large machines are near mandatory to withstand the market´s pressure. Not to mention that these huge tractors usually cost a shitton of money so only the largest farms can afford them. In West Germany, land is expensive and scarce, so you won´t see any of those large mosters on the fields. In North Germany, larger meat farms (pigs/cows) are more common and the tractor sizes you can see are considerably bigger. In some East German regions, there are farms owning large portions of the land , sometimes in the hudereds of hectares...and that´s where you can find tractors similarly big to those that have been linked in here. Tl;dr: More land = bigger tractors become mandatory.
Okay [img]<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/wacko.png[/img]/emoticons/[email protected] 2x" title=":S" width="20" /> so what you are saying is that, caikgoch is some hidden ultra rich dude that has several kilometers of land?
Because oh god those are some huge machines and if they do that kind of work and he said he had many of them and even larger, I can only imagine what kind of land we are talking in here.
Are you a farmer too 30-30?...
