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Machinery Mishaps
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Your chance to share your pictures of farming machines in trouble. Send us a picture and tell us what happened, and we’ll do the rest. Each ‘Mishap of the Month’ wins £20!
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MISHAP OF THE MONTH 2
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This John Deere 6830 and McHale Fusion 2 baler got absolutely toasted in Devon back in September 2020. The only things that survived to work another day were the tractor’s flashing roof beacon and its front linkage. Photo: Antony.
1 Hay making in Cumbria came to an abrupt halt when the drawbar on this ageing John Deere baler came adrift. The operator, whose harsh clutching was allegedly to blame for the drawbar failure, shall remain nameless. Photo: Martin Hool.
This Manitou tumbled down a bank and ended up in a river bed after its operator, Charlie Wildbore, lost his bearings in the dark. Coming to rest door-side down, the method of exiting the cab must have been a little interesting.
3 Gloucestershire farmer Peter Day’s part-time tractor driver was topping the field headlands before the 2021 harvest when he got a little too close to the ditch. That’s no way to treat such a tidy modern classic Massey Ferguson 6290. Ellen Phelan was on hand to 2 capture the moment when her father Larry, standing right with his hands on his head, realised that it would have been better to wait for the land to dry out before attempting this manoeuvre with his Ford 7810.
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