Four at a time, at walking pace, on a farm.
A tractor driving experience on the estate that made a career out of being bad at driving tractors. It is slower, smaller and considerably more agricultural than most people imagine when they book it.
What people expect, and what this is.
People expect a track, a fast car and a man with a clipboard. This is a farm, and the farm has a Lamborghini on it that is a tractor.
A session is four people, three hours, one machine each in rotation and a great deal of standing about in a field being told things. You will drive a tractor with an implement on the back, you will attempt a headland turn, and you will discover that reversing a trailer is one of the genuinely difficult manual skills and that eleven minutes is not long enough to learn it.
Nobody exceeds about twelve miles an hour at any point, and the people who most enjoy it are usually the ones who did not expect to.
What you actually drive.
The machines
- A Lamborghini R8
- The famous oneA tractor, and a slightly awkward one at that
- A 150 hp utility tractor
- The one you learn onBecause it is forgiving and nothing on it is precious
- A telehandler
- Loading, in a marked areaThe most useful skill on the whole day
- A trailer, to reverse
- Sixteen feet of itWhich humbles almost everybody
The session
- People
- 4Never more. There is one instructor and four is what one person can watch
- Duration
- 3 hoursOf which about seventy minutes is seat time
- Price
- £295 a headOr £1,100 for the four, which is how most people book it
- Minimum age
- 17And a full driving licence, which is checked on the day
- Top speed
- ~12 mphIt is a field, not a circuit
Conditions
- Weather
- It runs in rainIt does not run in high wind or standing water
- Footwear
- Boots, and we mean itTrainers are turned away and it has happened
- Alcohol
- None, at any point in the dayIncluding at lunch, including one
- Cancellation by us
- Full refund or a new dateGround conditions, three or four times a year
This is a demonstration build. Nothing here books anything, no deposit is taken and no card details are collected at any point. Prices are indicative and are published so the arithmetic can be argued with.
What a session is.
Included
- Three hours, four people, one instructor
- Seat time in three different machines, in rotation
- A proper briefing on each, which takes longer than you want it to
- Boots and waterproofs if you have not brought them
- A go at reversing a trailer, which is the bit people talk about
- Full refund or a new date if the ground is unsafe
Not available
- Any kind of speed
- A road-going vehicle of any description
- Anybody under 17, or without a full driving licence
- A passenger ride for somebody not booked on
- Alcohol before, during or after if you are driving home
- A session during harvest, drilling or lambing
When sessions run.
Two sessions a day, three days a week, and none at all during drilling or harvest.
Wednesday17 September
Saturday20 September
Wednesday24 September
Pick a time and we will hold it for ten minutes. Hold a place
This is a demonstration build. Nothing here books anything, no deposit is taken and no card details are collected at any point. Prices are indicative and are published so the arithmetic can be argued with.
There is no fast version of this
We are asked about once a week whether there is a track, a supercar, or a way of going quickly. There is not, there is not going to be, and the reason is that this is a working farm with a planning permission, livestock and neighbours, in that order.
Driving, at a glance.
Four at a time
One instructor, and four is what one person can watch.
Three hours
About seventy minutes of it in a seat.
Licence checked
Full licence, 17 and over, on the day.
No speed
Twelve miles an hour, at the very most.
Or put it inside a bigger day.
The away-day configurator has it as an afternoon option, which is how most groups do it.
