Ola Nilsson is a farmer and has had the windscreens on three of the tractors he works with smashed by stone chips.
When SVT meets him, he has a hard time holding back his anger.
- Each stone shot costs close to SEK 50,000 to repair, and the deductible is SEK 10,000 per tractor.
It is completely unsustainable that we have to pay for the Swedish Transport Administration to put out the cheapest and worst possible shit as pavement on the road, says Ola Nilsson.
Without a box in the middle of the harvest
He says that in addition to the three tractors, he knows of another ten vehicles that were hit by stone chips during the weekend.
- We have so much to do now that we can not leave any machines standing.
The harvest must enter.
And we are already so financially pressured by our situation, so having to pay for the damage that the stone shots do feels completely up the walls, he says.
Several tractors and other vehicles have been hit by stones since the newly laid oil gravel road on south-eastern Öland in the heat released stones and gravel that crashed several windscreens.
Photo: Private
Gravel in the underpants
And he himself was forced to drive a pass in his tractor without a windshield.
- There was so much stone and gravel that when I came home and stood in the shower, stone and gravel fell out of my underwear, on that shoulder it is, he says.
- We who are farmers here are prepared to excavate the oil gravel that lies, but then the Swedish Transport Administration must ban me from laying real asphalt, he says.
"Illegal act"
The Swedish Transport Administration says that it is unfortunate that the road became bad in the middle of the harvest.
But excavating the material is not a good idea according to the Swedish Transport Administration's project manager Johan Falk.
- It would be an illegal act so you should definitely not do it.
I think it is a sad attitude when we try to get the road in order, says Johan Falk to SVT.
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The Swedish Transport Administration regrets that the road became bad, but advises the farmers not to take matters into their own hands.
Photo: SVT