Tractor Tuesday - Lamborghini

This Blip is somewhat out of order as I haven't posted since last Tuesday but I mustn't let down the TT community. As TBay is somewhat preoccupied with more important matters i could probably have got away with it but then her deputies MissWinterFinch, CTJ et al are likely to give me a telling off ... so here we go:

Morning walk between Erkheim and Daxberg where I saw this Lamborghini somewhat slowly but obviously carefully sowing a field. I spent some time on the track with camera pointing it's way and eventually when it headed down to the track I was on, I moved closer. The driver turned on the track and the shut down the motor, me expecting to be faced by an elderly, sceptical farmer about to break the camera.

Instead a very young lad - I can't guess his age as I am now of the age that policeman look to me as though they should still be at school! At a wild guess very early 20's. I quickly explained what I was doing and we ended up chatting for quite some time.

He actually comes from a farming family but the farm had been rented out and he had shown no interest in taking it over. Seems that when his father died recently, he has decided to get into the business at first at east on a part-time basis as he only has 15 hectares at the moment. Perhaps he has been encouraged to take it on by his girlfriend who seemingly comes from a farming family with amongst other things a herd of Belted Galloway kept as "Mother-Calf" . Can't remember what this is called in English but something like "Mother with Calf at Udder" whereby the mother cow is solely there to feed the calf and does not get milked and generally held outdoors as long as conditions allow.

Anyway he is totally in to organic farming and now having taken on the land is taking the first steps to get it sorted. He says it is highly compacted and hardly a worm to be found. He was actually sowing clover as a temporary crop to increase the nitrogen and encourage the worms. He saw my Beekeeping cap and showed his anxiety about the spraying and crop management of conventional farming. I wished him all the best and we continued our walk. Afterwards occurred to me I hadn't asked him anything about the tractor. Have looked it up on the web and seems to be:
Lamborghini Grand Prix 674-70 built between 1989 and 1998.
4.0 liter, 70hp motor.
Lamborghini is not that common around here but belongs to the Same Deutz-Fahr business so probably most parts are in common with Deutz tractors.

Quite pleased I got the Lamborghini ahead of Bliper "iaint" who threatened back in the winter to post one -as far as I know, he hasn't yet.

Shortly afterwards was passed by a familiar looking farmer on a 1960s Hanomag 300 which in the normal course of events should have been my TT Blip as it is fairly rare. However, I knew where it came from and once back at the car headed off to find it in the town.

The owner was just heading off home on his push bike when I got there and I was quickly able to show him his premiere on Blip a few weeks ago with his Deutz.



He also filled me in on some details of the young farmer I met earlier and while wishing him success was concerned that with no practical experience whatsoever he had his doubts saying as an example, that sowing a field which was still fairly wet after the weekend's rains was something one wouldn't normally do but when I told him it was only clover, he said that was OK. Also learnt a very big vintage tractor meeting this Sunday as part of the weekends "Hayloft Festival" at nearby Eutenhausen. A date for the diary.

Now have to try and catch up the missing last 7 days - it was simply fantastic, so good I didn't have a seconds time to Blip.