The Langtree Tractor Run 2017

The Langtree Tractor Run 2017

Yesterday was Fathers Day. It was also the Langtree Tractor Run. This sounded like fun and it was for a good cause for our local pre school, Little Bears, so we booked up in advance and spent the week checking the weather forecast. It looked like it was going to be hot!

So, yesterday we headed out armed with hats, suncream and water and went to Langtree. We weren’t too sure what to expect, other than it was a tractor run with about 50 tractors!

The timings seemed a little vague on how long the run was and having never done it before we really just had no idea…

We set off from a field in Langtree on 1 of the 3 trailers, with what then looked like the other tractors jostling and squabbling for position.

Through the farm and down a track to the road.

Now I must say at this stage, these photos are taken from back of a bouncy trailer with nothing really to lean on or indeed focus on!

We’d been going for a while now, but checking the map we had found, it seemed like a long route and we hadn’t travelled far…

Then off roading again to more tracks and across fields.

Through more farms…

and fields, well it was a tractor run…

We eventually, an 1hr 30mins later, made it to the half way point, Shebbear Village square!

A chance to stretch our legs…

before getting back on the trailer and heading back towards Langtree, via many places I hadn’t been.

It was great to just sit there and watch the countryside go by, wave and people and looking over all the hedgerows.

The whole trip from leaving to getting back was around 3 hours. A little uncomfortable at times bouncing up and down on the wood benches in the trailer. The other trailer had a sofa and even some covering but we survived and was rewarded with a great roast meal and amazing ice creams at the end.

The kids enjoyed it, mostly, and so did we, although it was a little long but definitely something you should do at least once.

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