Using your Tractor with a Geiger-Counter in your Hand

Just occasionally, we wander off from the serious business of farming and agricultural equipment when something rather unusual catches our eye.

One such example occurred recently when, quite by chance, we saw an article or rather brief note relating to a nuclear-powered tractor developed a long time ago.

This immediately struck us as a mixture of incredible and hilarious. We had mental images of farmers around Goulburn driving their tractors in lead-lined anti-radiation suits. We couldn’t help smiling also at the thought of our customers bringing equipment into us and our first action being to run over them with a Geiger counter!

OK, this is largely a bit of fun but incredible as it sounds, there were plans in the 1950s and 1960s to use nuclear-powered tractors.  One such photo of a prototype is included here.

The idea, of course, is that such tractors run forever and on an unlimited range basis, given they virtually never need fuelling.  Of course, the practicality of this meant it never happened and the potential health issues, even in a full shielding scenario, are too horrific to contemplate.

For more details, please visit - https://www.whitestractors.com.au/blog/345-using-your-tractor-with-a-geiger-counter-in-your-hand.html

The Importance of Agricultural Machinery Equipment

A tractor is regarded as the key of agriculture approach. Also, you would like a tractor that has a broad front end, in place of a narrow one. Ultimately, it's important to think about the transmission sort of the tractor you will purchase. Based on what size bales you're thinking about producing, you are going to need a tractor potent enough to drive all the attachments given below. To meet that criterion, one should have a technologically advanced tractor with the ability to deliver high productivity. With the arrival of the world wide web, now you can search for tractorsfor sale Goulburn and worldwide.

Contrary to other supply businesses, a landscape supply business is extremely profitable. The rice milling business is one of the most lucrative and oldest businesses in the nation. The company supplies a wide variety of corporate collectibles for employees or loyal clients. Businesses are often inclined to provide consultation and advice for any questions you might have regarding buying or renting industrial equipment. Irrespective of someone's financial status, starting an organization or rather business isn't a walk in the park. Thus, should you not have a large agricultural company and desire a tractor that will allow you to handle your daily farming requirements, it is sensible to look for a little vehicle, which will feature lots of helpful functions. Any business that manages lifting, lowering and transferring heavy loads from one area to another relies a good deal on cranes.

There are various types of lifting machines. Generally, the more frequently you want to utilize your machine, the larger the horsepower you are going to want. To start with, you are going to require some machinery to carry out each step in the hay baling approach. In any company, the proper sort of industrial equipment is vital in ensuring a smooth, productive operation.

Obtain farm equipment based on the kind of livestock or crops you want. For instance, if you wish to grow crops, it would be unwise to buy a bit of Arizona desert land. Crop dusting, also referred to as aerial application, follows a normal schedule.

In case the farm is simply a pastime, then registering the farm for a business isn't required. Starting a little farm may be rewarding endeavor for anybody who has ever wished to deal with livestock, raise crops and take pleasure in the rural way of life. For instance, if you've got a little bit of land less than 4 hectares, you need to go for a little tractor, the horsepower rating of which won't exceed 25kW. Agricultural lands vary in features and therefore it is important to select the right sort of land.

The Environment and Common Sense

Most farmers in Australia regard themselves as custodians and protectors of the countryside.

Yes, mistakes have been made in the past and nobody is suggesting that the farming community is perfect. However, given most farmers earn their living from the land they are not likely to treat it with extreme disrespect.

Over many years now though, both state and national governments have passed increasing numbers of environmental protection laws that appear to suggest that confidence in the farming community is less than total.  Some of these laws appear to make little or no sense and in some cases, even contradict each other.

At this stage, we’d like to shift the focus over to France.  Like Australia, many European countries over the last 20 years have passed increasingly aggressive environmental protection laws and some are arguing that these have gone too far.

We read of a situation recently where numbers of French villages are becoming completely overrun with weeds in their very centres because laws now state:

1. herbicides cannot be used under any circumstances, where said weeds are near any form of water course or drain system;

2. even if pulled manually, bonfires/incinerators can no longer be used to dispose of garden or agricultural waste;

For more details, please visit - https://www.whitestractors.com.au/blog/344-the-environment-and-common-sense.html

Sit-on Lawnmowers and Safety

As we’ve said many times before, lawnmowers are intrinsically safe devices – providing you use them in accordance with the manufacturer’s operating instructions and downright common sense.

Of course, any new or used farm machinery, including lawnmowers, can be dangerous if the user is determined to be careless.

Space here doesn’t allow us to go into a lot of detail and that will anyway all be contained within the manufacturer’s guide for the sit-on lawnmower you are using.

So instead, we’ll pick out a few absolute top-tips for the safe utilisation of sit-on lawnmowers:

Read the operating guide!  There’s no point it containing lots of great safety advice if it’s never read;

Comply with the guide.  There’s no point it containing safety information that the operator has read, if they then go out and do exactly the opposite when using their lawnmower;

Don’t let people, typically those that are younger and inexperienced, operate a sit-on lawnmower unless they have been fully trained.  Be careful also that younger and more exuberant people don’t think it’s a toy they can “horse around” on;

For more details, please visit - https://www.whitestractors.com.au/blog/343-sit-on-lawnmowers-and-safety.html

Garden Equipment - FAQs

A lot depends here upon the type of equipment you are speaking about.

For a start, anything that is electrically powered should be thoroughly checked out by someone qualified before you plug it in and start trying to use it.

The same is obviously true of anything powered by an internal combustion engine. If you buy something that is, to put it bluntly, in a mess, then you may spend a long time regretting it and writing out some hefty cheques to try and put things right.

In the case of manual tools, providing the price is right and they're in good condition, you should have no issues.

For anything more complicated, buying second-hand can be a good way of saving money but it might be prudent to only buy from an experienced and registered dealer in agricultural and garden equipment.

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Kubota and Space

We are writing this blog just 24 hours after the massive TV coverage of Elon Musk’s huge rocket launch in the USA.

It’s impossible not to admire anyone who has their old sports car sent into deep space with a dummy strapped in the seat whilst David Bowie’s “Space Oddity is playing on an endless loop and “DON’T PANIC” (from The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy), is displayed on the radio’s screen in the dashboard. It’ll apparently orbit around the sun at the same distance as Mars, where it’s assumed it will remain for at least 300million years.

Showmanship? Yes - but impressive for all that

Whilst watching all this, I guess, we were struck by the millions of young people all over the world who were enthralled by the event and the sight of a big rocket lifting off.  That was rather strange for anyone much over the age of about 55, for whom the memories of the days when giant rockets were lifting off routinely on the way to the moon are probably very clear! Read more about....... Kubota and Space.