Ore macchine agricole

[ilkoala]

Salve a tutti!
come posso tradurre in un questionario la voce "Ore macchine agricole"?
si riferisce a quante ore di utilizzo delle macchine agricole si ricorre.

Grazie.

OK, ho trobvato su un sito che vende macchine agricole.

"Agricultural machines"

grazie lo stesso!

 

[jepsonclough]

Agricultural machines va bene ma, secondo me, agricultural machinery sarebbe meglio.

 

[MünchnerFax]

Ma... una domanda: e le ore, dove sono finite? Agricultural machines significa solo macchine agricole.

 

[jepsonclough]

That's quite difficult actually. It's common to talk about machine hours as the hours a machine is working (in the same way that we talk about man hours or manhours for people's labour.) But, to me, agricultural machine hours wouldn't sound quite right - probably because it sounds as though agricultural refers to the hours rather than the machine. (NB I can't find the phrase agricultural machine[ry] hours on Google which suggests it isn't used much if at all.)

You can use the phrase operating hours so I would probably say agricultural machinery operating hours.