Wreckers!!

bluegreen

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Its been good to have the irish rigs over here in the fens this year, lots of different colour trailers on the maize haul:).........no accidents in any of my pics below though. Kane, Herron, Broughan, Smyth, Redrock plus the usual Baileys, RW and RL trailers of Pretoria Energy covered in dents:rolleyes:. The Krone 1180 was an animal, fills 20 tonne trailers in 2 mins:oops:
 

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Bob lincs

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Arable Farmer
Its been good to have the irish rigs over here in the fens this year, lots of different colour trailers on the maize haul:).........no accidents in any of my pics below though. Kane, Herron, Broughan, Smyth, Redrock plus the usual Baileys, RW and RL trailers of Pretoria Energy covered in dents:rolleyes:. The Krone 1180 was an animal, fills 20 tonne trailers in 2 mins:oops:
These guys have been in our area the last few days and for the first time since pretoria have been growing maize around here , there has been no crashes or roll overs , no mess , no arguments with the locals . A lot more professional that the gangs we have had for the last five years .
 

Forkdriver

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Livestock Farmer
I had Pretoria working in my office for a few weeks when I managed the estates operations for the EA. Funnily enough she wasn't that involved with environmental matters. Nice lass though.
 

daveydiesel1

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Co antrim
Its been good to have the irish rigs over here in the fens this year, lots of different colour trailers on the maize haul:).........no accidents in any of my pics below though. Kane, Herron, Broughan, Smyth, Redrock plus the usual Baileys, RW and RL trailers of Pretoria Energy covered in dents:rolleyes:. The Krone 1180 was an animal, fills 20 tonne trailers in 2 mins:oops:
The black mccorrmick looks well. What sorta trailer is the massey 8s pullin? Looks like a right heap o dung compared to kane,herron,broughan and redrock trailera
 

bluegreen

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That trailer is not a RL, looks like one of the Smyths, mind you I have seen a fair few of Pretorias in ditches over the last few years.

The Black McMac 7624 is actually very nice, there was a pair working with O J Neils operation contracting to G Shropshires crew which included the new Massey 8.265.
 

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Chae1

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Aberdeenshire
Think those black trailers are larringtons. They would have a habit of tipping over with careful drivers.

I'm friends with a guy that supplies components to trailer manufacturers. He was on about how bad they are. He had to go and look at one as part of a insurance claim. Imagine there would be quite a few! The trailer he was looking at was specially built to haul herbs! So imagine it was very big as herbs would be light.
 

kiwi pom

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Location
canterbury NZ
Its been good to have the irish rigs over here in the fens this year, lots of different colour trailers on the maize haul:).........no accidents in any of my pics below though. Kane, Herron, Broughan, Smyth, Redrock plus the usual Baileys, RW and RL trailers of Pretoria Energy covered in dents:rolleyes:. The Krone 1180 was an animal, fills 20 tonne trailers in 2 mins:oops:
If I was a transport cop I'd need a new ticket book by lunchtime with that lot.
Plenty dry enough on there to do it legally with trucks.
 

bluegreen

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Trucks are boring too watch though KP, maize harvesting with loads of tractors and trailers is easily the most entertaining agricultural spectacle on the farming calender.

It must also be said that fen roads are very bumpy which can catch out even careful drivers.
Pretorias use the most unsuitable black Larrington trailers for bumpy fen roads. O Neils also use RLs but much better designed ones as the pictures below illustrates.
 

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jondear

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Devon
Think those black trailers are larringtons. They would have a habit of tipping over with careful drivers.

I'm friends with a guy that supplies components to trailer manufacturers. He was on about how bad they are. He had to go and look at one as part of a insurance claim. Imagine there would be quite a few! The trailer he was looking at was specially built to haul herbs! So imagine it was very big as herbs would be light.
Herbs or Hops?
 

puppet

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Livestock Farmer
Location
sw scotland
It must also be said that fen roads are very bumpy which can catch out even careful drivers.
Pretorias use the most unsuitable black Larrington trailers for bumpy fen roads
Surely a careful driver could not tip a trailer in the fens even on a bumpy track? You need lots of speed and sharp turns to tip one over
 

yellowbelly

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Livestock Farmer
Location
N.Lincs
Surely a careful driver could not tip a trailer in the fens even on a bumpy track? You need lots of speed and sharp turns to tip one over
Roads like that, built over underlying peat, (even though a lot are straight) sink in some places and not in others ( I guess, depending on the depth of peat below shrinking at different rates).

Too much speed generates a bouncing effect.

Top heavy trailers bouncing and lifting the weight on and off the tractor back end, coupled with modern, fast tractors doesn"t end well.
 

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