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

Kubota in Australia

After 40 years in Australia, Kubota’s reputation for reliability, engineering excellence and innovation keeps growing. As orange lovers all over thecountry will tell you, “once a Kubota owner, always a Kubota owner.”

With a range that sets the benchmark for the industry, there’s a Kubota to suit just about every application, right up to our flagship, the mighty M7-1, Kubota’s most powerful tractor ever. With our special 40 month / 40 year anniversary finance offer, now’s the time to join the celebrations!

YES- its official huge changes at White’s Tractors!!

We have out grown our site … and we are moving.

We passed full capacity… Something had to go…things had to change…

1^st change:

We have stopped doing diesel pump and injectors and repairs to trucks and 4 wheel drives because the demand on the Kubota side of our business is so big…

…and Kubota is our passion…

 2^nd Change:

We have increased our staff…Our staff now consists of

Andrew and Myself

Mitchell our Son sales and service

Noel Henderson – new service manager

Darrin  -senior mechanic

Evan – mechanic

Noel Holding– assembly, deliveries

Jackson- 2^nd year apprentice

So to fit everyone in… we needed a bigger shed…

We will have 2 more opportunities for…

New passionate staff Too join us… once we have moved

1 to join me in the office and a mechanic to join our team on farm and in workshop…→

 3^rd change

The best news is the new shed is 2 doors down…

50-58 Robinson st Goulburn 2100m2 with 600m2 awning (Our dream shed)

We have always driven past it and said it would be perfect for us.

The plan is to move in September.

The whole team is really excited and pitching in to help set up… the expansion will allow us to serve you better, more efficient and to increase our stock of everything…

As you can imagine we have thousands and thousands of spare parts to move…

so we may need an extra smile and wave or toot if your passing by as we carry it down the street…

also…we feel the building of curiosity…  on what we are creating…

Stay tuned for our opening date!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cheers

Michelle White

PS we will confirm moving date to 50-58 Robinson St as soon as the paint dries…

White's Tractors Pty Ltd, a team of highly trained professionals who know their way around all areas of the agricultural industry and agricultural machinery. We have a wide range of kubota tractors, kubota mowers, utility vehicles, hay equipment in Goulburn.

A History of Roundabouts

Now some of you might be rubbing your eyes at the title of this one!

Maybe you think we’ve clearly ‘lost it’ or have far too much spare time on our hands. Well, nothing’s further from the truth (we hope)!

Here’s the explanation….

As you probably know, we’ve recently had some modest inconvenience locally because of the roadworks and construction of the new roundabout in Goulburn. We’ve kept everyone informed in the monthly newsletter and we think the now finished result is a big improvement.

During the works, somebody actually asked who invented the roundabout and where. It's a simple enough question but do you know the answer? We didn’t!

So, here’s the information you’ve all been desperately waiting for.

It seems that circular traffic systems of ‘circuses’ go back to at least the 18th century and England.  They started to be used for larger traffic volumes in the earlier 20th century with arguably the first real traffic system roundabout appearing in the USA in 1907 shortly followed by one a couple of years later in the UK.

Now it’s important to note that these weren’t modern roundabouts as we know them today. They were essentially just a round traffic island and something of a free-for-all going around.

For more details, please visit - http://www.whitestractors.com.au/blog/328-a-history-of-roundabouts.html

Kubota Spotlight - Kubota MX5100

With impressive power, outstanding versatility and reliability you can count on the MX5100. Combining the power of the M-series with the usability of the L-series makes this a do it all tractor. It also incorporates a new Turbo Charged Engine and Synchro Shuttle Transmission.

For more details, please visit - http://www.whitestractors.com.au/spotlight/326-kubota-spotlight-kubota-mx5100.html

Spotlight On – The Kubota BX25

OK, those huge Kubota tractor workhorses are marvellous machines and super-impressive. As you might expect, we love them to bits.

However, even we’ll admit that they might be a bit ‘out of scale’ for domestic situations – unless you REALLY want to impress (or maybe amuse) the neighbours!

That’s why we’re also so fond of the BX25 range.

If you’re not familiar with them, they’re the sub-compact model that’s earned itself a fantastic reputation since it was introduced back in 1999 (before I was born of course). They’re great for tasks as diverse as mowing the lawn to helping to lay a driveway.

In fact, the BX25D comes with a backhoe and front loader as standard.

You get some great power plants with them too.

The BX25D comes with 18- and 23-horsepower diesel engines, while the BX2670 packs a new 25.5-horsepower diesel engine under the bonnet.

For more details, please visit - http://www.whitestractors.com.au/spotlight/323-spotlight-on-the-kubota-bx25.html

What does 2017 hold for Agricultural Machinery?

Well, 2017 is here and the pundits are busily forecasting this, that and the other – as they always do!

We were, as you might expect, particularly interested in the global forecasts for the sales of tractors. Some reports are estimating a growth in global sales of around 6.6% for tractors specifically and that’s attributable to technological advances in tractor design and their near unique capabilities to operate as ‘jacks of all trades’.

Apparently that demand is likely to be relatively ‘flat’ in the USA and Europe but far stronger in the Asia-Pacific region, which includes Australia.

Of course, forecasts are sometimes notoriously inaccurate.  Many commentators confine themselves to speaking about macro forecasts covering vast areas of the planet, such as Europe, whilst avoiding getting into too much detail for a given country or in our case, individual states.

From our own perspective, 2017 looks bright for the sales of Kubota tractors. The new models that came on-stream in 2016 are still generating a lot of interest and the enquiries have been a pleasure to deal with. Read more http://www.whitestractors.com.au/blog/322-what-does-2017-hold-for-agricultural-machinery.html

New Year

It probably won’t have escaped your attention that we’re approaching the festive season.

Now we mention this because recently on TV there was a programme talking about how a lot of office workers start ‘easing up’ in the run in to Christmas and continue that through to New Year’s Day.  Well, we smiled at that and couldn’t help saying “nice work if you can get it”!

Now we’re not knocking office workers or city industries. Those guys work long and hard too but in farming the idea of a ‘quiet day or two’ at this time of year is amusing. We get around Goulburn and its surroundings quite a bit and you don’t see too many farmers gathering together to talk about Christmas decorations or just how many days they can take off before the holiday so they can spend some quality time shopping.

OK, that goes with the territory in farming we know but it does introduce our usual Christmas and New Year message.

We know you’re busy and running those Kubota tractors flat out but do try and make some effort to find some time for the season’s festivities and meanings.

For more details, please visit - http://www.whitestractors.com.au/blog/319-new-year.html

Slashing Safety Guidelines Over Summer

For more details, please visit - http://www.whitestractors.com.au/blog/317-slashing-safety-guidelines-over-summer.html