{"id":5941,"date":"2015-07-15T07:15:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T21:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/?p=5941"},"modified":"2020-06-20T01:05:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T15:05:32","slug":"stereotypes-the-farm-ute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/driving\/stereotypes-the-farm-ute\/","title":{"rendered":"Stereotypes: The Farm Ute"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Usually seen: Any rural road, either tarsealed or gravelled.\u00a0 Sometimes seen parked outside agricultural supplies shops and supermarkets in small towns.\u00a0 Frequently seen bumping over fields and farm tracks.<\/p>\n

Typical examples: Toyota Hilux <\/a>, Nissan Navara <\/a>, Mitsubishi Triton\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Description: The farm ute is seldom seen in built-up areas, usually because the farmer will pinch the family saloon (aka the wife\u2019s car) to head into town wearing good clothes.\u00a0 The ute is purely for business, and that business involves doing things with crops and uncooperative animals. \u00a0Looks do not matter when it comes to the farm ute; in fact, if it looks pretty, it\u2019s suspicious.<\/p>\n

Two main factors make a farm ute what it is: the mud and the flat deck out the back.\u00a0 If it hasn\u2019t got these, it\u2019s not a farm ute.<\/p>\n

The mud may get onto the farm ute in a number of ways. It may get kicked up from the surface of a gravel road or a farm track, or it may get splattered onto the sides of the machine by wet dogs, runaway bullocks and a range of farm implements.\u00a0 The mud is a semi-permanent fixture on the ute, especially as the closest the farm ute ever gets to a car wash is when it gets driven out to inspect the irrigation system or when it rains.\u00a0 If you are squeamish, don\u2019t inspect the mud too closely, as some of it may be animal crap.<\/p>\n

If you are squeamish, you really don\u2019t want to take a look at the flat deck itself. This will definitely have animal excretions on it of all varieties. You will also not be able to get close enough to the deck to inspect it, as it is likely to have at least one dog standing on it, chained to a set of bars behind the rear window.\u00a0 Other animals likely to be found on the flat deck include sheep (live), calves (live), pigs (dead after a hunting trip) and cattle (dead and sometimes in bits).\u00a0 The flat deck is also likely to contain miscellaneous sacks of animal feed, seed or fertilizer, and a selection of coils of wire, spades, crowbars, ropes and other tools.\u00a0 The whole point of the ute, after all, is to carry more stuff than the tractor, motorbike or quad bike does, as well as usually being road-legal, meaning that if the farmer needs to go down the road from farm block to farm block, or to the agricultural supply store to pick up the jumbo-sized sack of dog biscuits, a new elastrator and a salt block or two.<\/p>\n

Utes may be twin-cab or single-cab, although single-cabs are more common.\u00a0 Double-cabs tend to be used when there\u2019s a crew of workers to be lugged around or if there\u2019s a heap of stuff that shouldn\u2019t get wet or muddy, such as grass seeds or chemical sprays.\u00a0 Double-cabs tend to be a kind of mobile toolshed. Even in a single-cab ute, the front seat is likely to hold random bits of paperwork as well as a lunchbox and thermos flask \u2013 where the dogs can\u2019t get at it.\u00a0 The interior will also be muddy.<\/p>\n

Bells and whistles are also in short supply inside the farm ute.\u00a0 GPS systems are useless, as even the most sophisticated ones aren\u2019t going to tell you the shortest way from the cattle yards to Field 3 in D Block.\u00a0 Any rear parking cameras are going to be covered in mud before too long, so they\u2019re no good, either.\u00a0 Must-haves in the farm ute are the radio (so you can listen to the cricket while mending fences) and the horn (for turning the ute into a sort of mechanical dog that barks to move stock along).<\/p>\n

The farm ute may or may not have 4×4 capacity, although it frequently does.\u00a0 This is because the typical farm ute usually sees more off-road action than many fancy 4x4s.\u00a0 Fancy 4x4s \u2013 the ones that look like they had a military origin along the lines of Jeep and Land Rover \u2013 are never used as farm utes.\u00a0 This is because they lack the all-important flat deck.<\/p>\n

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Usually seen: Any rural road, either tarsealed or gravelled.\u00a0 Sometimes seen parked outside agricultural supplies shops and supermarkets in small towns.\u00a0 Frequently seen bumping over fields and farm tracks. Typical examples: Toyota Hilux , Nissan Navara , Mitsubishi Triton\u00a0 Description: The farm ute is seldom seen in built-up areas, usually because the farmer will pinch […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5941"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11696,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5941\/revisions\/11696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}