This from S**** H****** …
Back in the early days before global warming was invented, farming was a labour-intensive job.
Men would spend all day walking miles behind a team of heavy horses to plough a field. In summertime people would cut, turn and gather hay by hand. The digging of canals, road and rail construction and other forms of civil engineering all employed large teams of navvies. There were many other jobs to do and they all required manual labour.
Then came the tractor that revolutionised things. One man could now plough a whole field in a day, whereas before it might have taken a week. The same sort of savings in time applied to all the previously-mentioned activities.
Over the years tractors have been developed and become more versatile. With the many hydraulic attachments available, they can lift, excavate, crop-spray, muck-spread etc. The humble tractor has also spawned a whole host of specialist vehicles that can do just about any job you could think of - plus a few more besides. These vehicles are true marvels of the 21st century.
Except for one thing.
While driving down the road you often see one of these high-powered wonder-vehicles hovering in a gateway, side-road, track or building-site. So long as there is a gap in the traffic large enough for them to get into, they will accelerate out at breakneck speed to join the traffic. Sadly this is where all the high-tech stuff comes to an end. Said wonder-vehicle lumbers down the road with all the speed and grace of a lame cart-horse.
The drivers of these vehicles are a special breed that appear to be stone deaf and do not know what their rear-view mirrors are for. They are also partially sighted and unable to spot areas where they could easily pull in and let the huge tailbacks pass by. When you consider how much extra C0² the vehicles create crawling along behind, you begin to realise how environmentally unfriendly tractors really are and how they might contribute to global warming (here we go again!).
I have a simple solution to all this. Ban tractors and similar vehicles from the roads between 07:00 and 18:00 and at all other times!
The GOS says: "… between 07.00 and 18.00 and at all other times"? Can't see that working, somehow.
either on this site or on the World Wide Web.
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