{"id":337782,"date":"2025-08-12T06:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T06:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/337782\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T06:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T06:46:12","slug":"farm-mechanics-driving-tractors-across-the-uk-for-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/337782\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm mechanics driving tractors across the UK for mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trio have raised more than \u00a31,000 so far and Mr Kitcher joked that there was a poster with his face on &#8220;on every lamp post in the local area&#8221;, as friends and family have been showing support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Kitcher has 11 vintage tractors that he takes to shows and said he will take an old 1954 Fordson Major for the journey, with Mr Parsons taking a Ford 6710.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said getting the old tractors ready has been a &#8220;walk in the park&#8221;, despite having to completely rebuild the engine on Mr Macey&#8217;s Nuffield 10\/60.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The vintage vehicles travel at an average speed of 18mph and they are hoping other drivers will be forgiving when stuck behind them on the roads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Kitcher is anticipating it will take them between five to 10 days to complete the trek, which will see them camping along the route.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said it will be a &#8220;great experience&#8221; for them all, especially for 21-year-old Mr Macey, who &#8220;has never left Dorset before&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The trio have raised more than \u00a31,000 so far and Mr Kitcher joked that there was a poster&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[105,218,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-337782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115014453509169492","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}