- Location
- N.Lincs
Doesn't seem to stop them appearing quite regularly on this thread though.
just sayin'
Wreckers!!
- Thread starter Kevtherev
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just sayin'
It wouldn't be hard for new tractors to only operate independent brakes below a certain speed on the same principal that power boost only comes in in road gears (unless some already so).idiotic in my mind to have them knowingly unlocked on road,disaster waiting to happen.Of course this only would work on new tractors
They already do this...
John Deere won’t get to top speed with the brake pedals unlatched.
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
that way around much easier/ safer than the other way too - you don’t want to have any logic circuits interfering with the basic braking system unless absolutely necessary. ABS are challenging enough to design safely.
bloody hell i've never seen so many assumptions in one thread
- Location
- pembrokeshire
one thing for sure at least one of them was going to fast
Similar accident happened me before was spreading slurry with a JD 7700. The latch was the flip over type I’m sure but it had a habit of working it’s way out, was traveling down the road maybe 15-20mph nothing too stupid and met a car on a wide right hand bend, car pulled into side to allow me past touched the brakes to slow down another bit. Pedals had unlocked hit the right pedal Thinking they were locked tractor swung out across road released pedal and barely missed front of car with front wheel of tractor and wheel of tanker but caught the mirror and pulled it off. A lucky escape no one hurt cost me €100 for new mirror but could have been a lot worse on returning to the yard I got cable ties and tied the latch down so it couldn’t release. I think it was made worse because the jd had power brakes and there used to be maybe a 2-3sec delay then the brakes would come on suddenly it’s near 20yrs since but I hated that tractor big awkward clumsy thing 6910 would run rings around it.
Netherfield
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- Location
- West Yorkshire
In the old days of purely mechanical brakes there were quite a few incidents of heavy usage of the indepedants in the field left the brakes unbalanced on the road when locked together, I knew a contractor who kept them unlocked so he could press one more than the other to try balance it up.
- Location
- DD9.
- Location
- pembrokeshire
when i was a kid there was a farm safety film and it showed the danger of poorly adjusted brakes with a Nuffield going down the road and braking and shooting of over the hedge
- Location
- Sutton Coldfield
When we ran Leyland 270s carting grain we always had the pedals unlocked. If the brakes were needed you were never sure if one or both would work. With your foot straddling both pedals you were able to tilt your foot one way or the other to compensate for which brake bit first
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Now we have decent brakes they are rarely unlatched.
!Now we have decent brakes they are rarely unlatched.
- Location
- Sutton Coldfield
You could adjust them all you like but once you had been on a run they were anyhow again.
- Location
- pembrokeshire
thats if they worked at all , i remember the days of dry discs on a leyland when they wer new they were savage then when the balls got worn they would stick and no brakes at all
ollie989898
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I can't remember the last time I used unlatched brakes. I can remember driving a tractor not long ago that some muppet had unlatched them on previously and when I did press the brakes it gave me a shock, lucky it was only shunting around in the yard. I think I have managed to unlatch the swing over time with my foot before by accident as well. Better off bolting them together.
The trouble with crashes like this are two fold. First, the public sees them and they look very very bad. And second, it is one thing for a car to smash into another but a tractor is a much heavier vehicle, just like a HGV and they don't have crumple zones.
The trouble with crashes like this are two fold. First, the public sees them and they look very very bad. And second, it is one thing for a car to smash into another but a tractor is a much heavier vehicle, just like a HGV and they don't have crumple zones.
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76masseyman
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- Location
- Lincolncestershire
Be a totally different thread if instead of a New Holland it was a car.
Speedstar
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- Location
- Scottish Borders
well that looks like a million pound claim for a new bridge