Well i just been offered a job to drive a tractor by a agency with a pay rate of £10 per hour. i then asked about rates for class 2 and was told £9 a hour. So that shows how much we are valued as so called professional drivers in my tractor i have no taco i can work as many days and hours i want get paid more and get home every day. i,m still stunned by this 
I wouldn’t get out of bed for that…
Nothing wrong with tractor driving boy.
Were at the bottom when it comes to driving rates.
the nodding donkey:
I wouldn’t get out of bed for that…
Quite like to drive a tractor in the fields lol 
I have seen some tractors that I wouldn’t have a clue how to start them let alone drive one. They can be very complicated if you have never driven one before. It isn’t the fact we are not valued it goes with it is more specialised. I don’t think £10 per hour is enough.
That’s on the cheap side for a tractor driver I believe?
Lidl in Devizes looking for staff…£8.45 to £9.79
UKtramp:
I have seen some tractors that I wouldn’t have a clue how to start them let alone drive one. They can be very complicated if you have never driven one before. It isn’t the fact we are not valued it goes with it is more specialised. I don’t think £10 per hour is enough.
Show me how it works and ill soon learn and it wont cost me 2 grand
deck21:
UKtramp:
I have seen some tractors that I wouldn’t have a clue how to start them let alone drive one. They can be very complicated if you have never driven one before. It isn’t the fact we are not valued it goes with it is more specialised. I don’t think £10 per hour is enough.Show me how it works and ill soon learn and it wont cost me 2 grand
Well the amount of money to learn one isn’t the point really, it is the fact of how many people are experienced to actually drive one, it is also the gear attached to them that is also quite complex, a tractor has many uses. I get your point but the experience of a farm worker is as great if not greater than driving a truck and there are fewer of them around unlike truck drivers.
If you unfortunate enuff to live inside the hazy zone between town & country then you’ll fully understand this, the rest of you . . . just tap you’re feet.
Dork Lard:
If you unfortunate enuff to live inside the hazy zone between town & country then you’ll fully understand this, the rest of you . . . just tap you’re feet.
PMSL
Agency job at a school in Bath for a kitchen porter is £10. 40 per hour.
If it is a girls only school , Dipper Dave would apply for that.
Modern tractors are high tech now, gps controlled, think combines, crop sprayers drive without a driver.
toby1234abc:
Agency job at a school in Bath for a kitchen porter is £10. 40 per hour.
If it is a girls only school , Dipper Dave would apply for that.
Modern tractors are high tech now, gps controlled, think combines, crop sprayers drive without a driver.
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Yup plot the field, input what your doing, press enter, off it goes. D9’s and lots of large plant to.
stood beside one of these buggers not so long ago in a garage,the wheels are taller than me [i’m 6ft 2] they are huge now unlike the old days,and they easily do 50mph nowadays
Oi cant reed, an oi cant rite, but i can drive a tractor, ( sing it with a norfolk accent ) ha ha
I got a job on a farm years ago as head tractor driver (I was the only one) The farmer asked me if I could drive a Massey Harris combine harvester, I said yes but I would like you show me how you want it driven … He smiled (rare for a farmer I know) but I got the job …I never had a bloody clue of how to work the thing 
Not in Norfolk but not far away at Onehouse near Stowmarket.
Worked in May this year renovating sports fields driving tractors and dumpers doing 12 hour days rate of pay was £15 per hour double time Sunday’s
Got two months out of it and have worked the last 2 weeks, for the same company
Have been asked to start again in May 2018.
I’m retired so it so it suits me fine.
Going rate about England for tractor drivers would be £12+ PAYE so I’m told.
Taliban about Eastern side on the veg work prob cheaper though!!!
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Anyone can drive a tractor its when a machine is hitched to it that makes it a skilled job. Balers, Seed Drills ,Ploughs Mowers all require a different set of skills to operate them . Factors like weather ,moisture of crop and soil .also the type of soil ect, affect how or if a machine will operate
Have a go at tractor driving you will have more variation of work than driving a truck as tractor driving work follows the seasons the days can be long. Modern cabs come with climate control air seats and if the tractor fitted with GPS it will steer its self you will have to turn it round at the end of the field though .
There’s a difference between driving farm/heavy plant and operating it. There are a lot of quarry workers who can drive a loading shovel but to operate it you need to divide that figure by two.
deck21:
Well i just been offered a job to drive a tractor by a agency with a pay rate of £10 per hour. i then asked about rates for class 2 and was told £9 a hour. So that shows how much we are valued as so called professional drivers in my tractor i have no taco i can work as many days and hours i want get paid more and get home every day. i,m still stunned by this
So…did you take the job?