Jeremy Clarkson’s latest addition has left his farmhand Kaleb Cooper fuming that he could be out of a job.
The journalist, 65, revealed that although he finds driverless cars to be ‘pointless’, there is one automated piece of machinery that has captured his attention.
But his right-hand man on the Diddly Squat farm in the Cotswolds, Oxfordshire, isn’t too happy about Clarkson’s new purchase.
And in his latest column, the former Top Gear revealed his new and ‘extremely expensive’ purchase for his sprawling 1,000-acre farm that Kaleb ‘hates’.
The landlord shared he had bought a brand new AgBot T2, describing it as the ‘coolest machine in the world’.
To his joy, instead of spending 30 hours on the back of on a cultivator preparing his land for seeds, now he can use the driveless tractor with less mistakes and boredom.
The autonomous piece of farming machinery comes with a £300,000 price tag, according to Farmer’s Weekly, while also boasting a 156 horsepower-diesel engine.
But 26-year-old farmer and media personality Kaleb is less than thrilled about Clarkson’s new toy.
‘Kaleb hates it. He says it’ll put him out of a job,’ he wrote in his column for The Times.
He recalled that he told Kaleb how he the machine could be used as part of his contracting business, allowing him to work several farms at once.
Although he initially agreed, the 26-year-old eventually became aggravated by the AgBot once again, because he had to spread wildlife waste across the fields before the machine could get to work.
‘And the simple fact is that he had to stop occasionally, to sleep for instance, and the AgBot didn’t,’ Clarkson added.
‘He was literally being hounded by a machine that absolutely will not stop.’
The broadcaster also announced he would be taking this development one step further, as his machine will attempt precision drilling alone, in a world first.
Clarkson is still unsure if his plan will be successful, and will continue to be until harvest time rolls around.
For now, he watches footage the AgBot from bed next to his partner Lisa, as the machine works across his fields in the darkness.
The new purchase comes shortly after Jeremy sold his new Lamborghini tractor just months after making the agonising decision to buy it.
The former Top Gear presenter was spotted at a farm machinery and tractor sale in Sutton, near Ely in Cambridgeshire, selling his colossal £85,000 tractor.
He was seen attending the auction on Monday alongside his trusted farm manager Kaleb, as well as a large film crew.
Onlookers at the event said Clarkson told fans he was selling the new tractor due to a host of electrical problems.
The 65-year-old also vowed to bring his old cherished Lamborghini tractor back out of retirement – although it is unclear whether he was referring to his grey Lamborghini Trattori R8 270 DCR which he purchased for £40,000 second-hand.
The move may come as a shock to fans of the hit Amazon series Clarkson’s Farm, as just a few months ago Clarkson was filmed purchasing the high tech tractor and immediately falling in love with it.
Episode four of the latest series sees Clarkson trying out loads of new tractors – much to the dismay of her partner Lisa Hogan.
He eventually settled on a colossal £85,000 green Lamborghini tractor, boasting a 7.8-litre engine and 340 horsepower, leaving Kaleb gobsmacked.
