Suzanne Campbell
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It's pumping slurry into an umbilical pipe and pushing it under pressure one and a half kilometres away to the field that it's going to be spread in.
The tractor engine is running at a constant 1,000 rpm, 35 litres of diesel an hour.
At the other end of the umbilical pipe, Pawdie is driving another tractor back and forth using a low-emission spreader.
His tractor is running just under 1,000 rpm, depending on the terrain, and averaging about 25 litres of diesel an hour.
So, 10,000 litres multiplied by 0.83 equals, so that did cost me 8,400.
In his little office perched above his machinery shed, contractor Irvin Rothwell is running his calculator at about 2,000 RPM.
The increase in fuel costs over this week last year is about 75 euros a tractor a day.
With eight tractors on the go right now, nine hours a day, fuel is costing him 4,200 euro more a week than last spring.
still going to be 17 grand out of pocket if you know what i mean all right and that's mr trump so this is your diesel tank back in february what was that costing to fill that cost eight and a half thousand euros to fill plus fat eight and a half thousand euros to fill and how long would that ten thousand liters last you we get about two weeks over
How much would your fuel bill have been in 2025?
For the period of the four months?
Yeah, that you're now going to get support for?
It would have been 57,000.
And this year you think it'll be what?
That's a jump and a half.
It is a jump and a half on four months, yeah.