Get me Home vehicle

turbokid

Member
hi, just wondering if anyone tows a vehicle behind a tractor trailer/spreader etc? Dont know if its legal or anything like that, but it would be very handy to have transport instead of lugging the tractor home.
 

Fendt516profi

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Yorkshire
Think your fine carrying one of these
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In all seriousness, by the time you've loaded up a vehicle, strapped it down, unloaded it, filled a bowser / fuel cube to refill the tractor, you've had time to get a fair way on the tractor.
Especially when you can sit at over 55k in a modern tractor :whistle::whistle: And that’s a good point about needing fuel when working away
 

tr250

Member
Location
Northants
Bloke that used to come round lime spreading used to put an old motorbike in the back of the spreader then drive back to his van every night load the bike in the back and go home was a big A and trailed 360 with grab @Cab-over Pete might know who it was. Also just remember someone putting an old cavalier on to a trailer with the loader and 2 straps was a bit of a relic of a car
 
Bloke that used to come round lime spreading used to put an old motorbike in the back of the spreader then drive back to his van every night load the bike in the back and go home was a big A and trailed 360 with grab @Cab-over Pete might know who it was. Also just remember someone putting an old cavalier on to a trailer with the loader and 2 straps was a bit of a relic of a car

Quite a few used to do that sort of thing.

Dad used to tow his old van on an A frame behind his MF 188 and spreader years ago.

It’s all illegal though I’m afraid. Basic rule of thumb, you can’t tow or carry a road fuel vehicle with a red diesel vehicle.

I take every machine home every night. I can fuel up, keep on top of maintenance and I know where it is, behind locked doors. I don’t have to rely on anybody else and I don’t have the expense or faff of another vehicle.
 

glasshouse

Member
Location
lothians
Quite a few used to do that sort of thing.

Dad used to tow his old van on an A frame behind his MF 188 and spreader years ago.

It’s all illegal though I’m afraid. Basic rule of thumb, you can’t tow or carry a road fuel vehicle with a red diesel vehicle.

I take every machine home every night. I can fuel up, keep on top of maintenance and I know where it is, behind locked doors. I don’t have to rely on anybody else and I don’t have the expense or faff of another vehicle.
Depends how far u are away and what machine u have on
Try dismounting a four metre piggy back and front press and dual wheels every night to go home
 

glasshouse

Member
Location
lothians
Quite a few used to do that sort of thing.

Dad used to tow his old van on an A frame behind his MF 188 and spreader years ago.

It’s all illegal though I’m afraid. Basic rule of thumb, you can’t tow or carry a road fuel vehicle with a red diesel vehicle.

I take every machine home every night. I can fuel up, keep on top of maintenance and I know where it is, behind locked doors. I don’t have to rely on anybody else and I don’t have the expense or faff of another vehicle.
So dont put white deisel in it
 

Fendt516profi

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Yorkshire
Quite a few used to do that sort of thing.

Dad used to tow his old van on an A frame behind his MF 188 and spreader years ago.

It’s all illegal though I’m afraid. Basic rule of thumb, you can’t tow or carry a road fuel vehicle with a red diesel vehicle.

I take every machine home every night. I can fuel up, keep on top of maintenance and I know where it is, behind locked doors. I don’t have to rely on anybody else and I don’t have the expense or faff of another vehicle.
I'm sure somewhere else you put a post about borrowing a wreck of a vehicle to go home in. And you didn't fill it with fuel but just knocked abit off bill but usually you top the tanks up when you use someone's vehicle
 

Al R

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
West Wales
I know Ag-Bag UK have smart cars on their lorries 😂🤣 never seen anything so funny than 5 lads in 1 of them doing doughnuts across fields 😂

I know a lot of people who have cars/pickups behind the silage trailers and I always thought it was homemade A Frame and very illegal and then a campervan turned up here last year, elderly couple towing a car too.


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Fendt516profi

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Yorkshire
I know Ag-Bag UK have smart cars on their lorries 😂🤣 never seen anything so funny than 5 lads in 1 of them doing doughnuts across fields 😂

I know a lot of people who have cars/pickups behind the silage trailers and I always thought it was homemade A Frame and very illegal and then a campervan turned up here last year, elderly couple towing a car too.


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That doesn't look very safe like that
 

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