How's this for a mother of a Ford.

[jaydee]

Got a call while on holidays (office jockey and drive a computer) from my cousin on the farm to help him do some seeding, no worries I'll be in that, anything to get out of the city.

Never driven a tractor before, how hard can it be. I thought he knew I'd never driven one.

So I get to his farm about mid day, straight out to the paddock, a big smile on my face when I see it's a Ford.

So in I get, he shows me how to do use the GPS and a few levers, we do a lap or two together then off he goes to do some spraying, he comes back about 8pm and then he asks me if I've ever driven a tractor before, a bit late I thought.

Anyway he was pretty impressed I drove a big 4 wheel drive eight wheeler, in the dark for the first time. I was pretty pleased with myself too.

The GPS is hooked up to an auto steer system and gets within 5cm of the previous furrows, worth about 10 grand, new ones get within half a cm and worth about 30 grand. You can also put a disc in and it will memorise where you went and when you harvest, just put the disc in and away it goes, misses all the rocks and trees you went around previously. Next year put the disc in again and away you go, bloody marvelous.

All I have to do is a u turn at the end of the paddock, put the tractor on the red line and press OK and the away she goes, bit like Play station. I have to regulate the throttle and a few other bits and pieces.




Heres the screen which shows where you have been and then get onto the next line and put the auto steer on.



Watch you dont get your fingers caught in the auto steer when doing the U turn. You can see where it runs alongside the steering wheel.



Time for a wee stop, have a sandwich and a drink, stretch the legs and watch the sun go down, ahh country life, can't beat it.