It’s fair to say that road runs have become one of the most popular ways of remembering someone that had a connection with tractors or agriculture, as well as a providing an opportunity to entertain and raise substantial amounts of money for charity.
The members of the group that features here are of the same mindset, but they also like to work their tractors for good causes. Using machinery to prepare the land in readiness for planting a crop is, they believe, the perfect way of honouring someone that was a big part of their lives for many years.
Jonathan ‘Chop’ Fox, from Whittlesey in Cambridgeshire, passed away on 9 November 2021, aged 61, after a battle with cancer, and following his death his friends decided to stage a road run in his memory, and to raise funds for Sue Ryder Thorpe Hall Hospice, in Peterborough.
Adam Barnes, Robert Brown, Adam Harper, and Paul ‘Bones’ Taylor were the main protagonists for the road run, which took place around the anniversary of Jonathan’s death, in 2022, but this year they decided to remember him with a working day.
“Following Chop’s death, I got my hands on a Massey Ferguson
