{"id":63266,"date":"2025-08-12T05:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/63266\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T05:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:57:07","slug":"farm-mechanics-driving-tractors-across-the-uk-for-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/63266\/","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":63267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-63266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}