Combine harvesters that don't fit down the road?

[Sooty20235]

Have never seen this before in 29 years of rural living but this year a lot of the farm machinery does not seem to fit through the villages if cars are parked on the road (which is very common). People have been asked to remove cars and even fencing on their front garden as they come through. I've seen one farmer making sarcastic comments on village Facebook groups about not being allowed over someone's front lawn. Did farm machinery get bigger or have I just been really unobservant over the last few years?

I completely understand farmers need to do their job for all of us but should we really be using machinery that is so big it doesn't fit on the roads they need to use?!

I used to live somewhere where roads had to be closed for large vehicles occasionally but it was always with advance notice and they never drove them on people's front gardens.

gosh, I live in bread basket East Anglia & haven't noticed this at all.

Yes, the size seems unreasonable for some places.
Give honest feedback - that you can't be there to move your car, that you won't be building a new fence etc.

That way the machinery owners have to consider the size of the new machinery in which they invest and the makers of said machinery will have to have smaller size options available for sale.

They’ve got bigger like pretty much every other vehicle but also the number of cars has increased hugely. In the seventies you were pretty lucky to have a family car, in the eighties families started to have two cars and these days most family homes seem to have four or more cars as there are adult kids still at home.

Not sure what can be done about it though.

Yes, I've noticed this recently too (I live in East Anglia) vehicles taking up half the other lane, cars getting up on verges so they can pass, getting stuck on single lane roads etc. It's just not safe.

Having said that I do believe if you want to live in a ‘naice’ village facilitating local farmers is the price you must pay.

To what extent though? Never leaving your car legally parked on the road? What if you haven't got a driveway? I'm really surprised that the farmer OP is talking about has been able to find the drivers of all cars in her way.