Odessa To Kiev And More.

[Bee Farmer]

My grandfather had one of the first gas tractors in the county.  He did a lot of custom farming for other farmers.  He literally wore that tractor out doing farm work for other people.

Perhaps that may be the best solution.  Find some way for a tractor to be financed, and one person can be responsible for the tractor and can use the tractor to do farm work for hire.

The hard part would be finding someone who could handle the responsibility, rather than looking at the tractor as a lottery ticket to be used until it fell apart.  Would they maintain the tractor, or would they run it until something broke?  (And then ask for money to fix it?)

[Stirlitz]

Peasants are hard-working but not too smart, as far as I have observed. They would rather work a lot than think of a way to make it less laborious.
In the Crimea, where I have a house in the countryside, people use coal for heating. That is a lot of hard work and costs a lot too! For a couple of years after buying the house I did the same thing. Then I decided I had had enough. First I warmed the house with polysterene foam and dry seaweed, not to mention plastic windows, and introduced power-efficient electric heating. I expected everybody in the village to do the same once they see my house having insulation and me stopping buying that expensive coal. But it did not happen. They still use coal, or even if they use electricity, they consume too much because there is no insulation. And they keep saying that 10 cm of insulation is too much and I should have put 5 because it is cheaper!

[mendeleyev]

There is a certain irony to the fact that Belarus and Ukraine manufacture tractors and farm implements that are widely sold across Europe and Asia. Yet at home they are unaffordable.

[ML]

There is a certain irony to the fact that Belarus and Ukraine manufacture tractors and farm implements that are widely sold across Europe and Asia. Yet at home they are unaffordable.

One of my distant neighbors here in USA even has a Belarus tractor.

[LiveFromUkraine]

Peasants are hard-working but not too smart, as far as I have observed. They would rather work a lot than think of a way to make it less laborious.

There is a lot of people like that and they are not necessarily dumb.  One of my good friends owned his own construction company.  I kept telling him he would be making more money if he didn't do the work himself (with his crew) but that is what he loved. 


He just felt like he accomplished something when he got his hands dirty even if he could make more money managing multiple crews.

[Stirlitz]

True. But irrelevant, in my view.