what grinds your gears

DrWazzock · Mar 18, 2018

Our MF135 could pull an artic with 30 ton of grain on out of our yard when it got a bit greasy.

The artic would lose most of its traction as its tyres soon filled with mud as soon as they spun, whereas the 135 did not lose traction in the same way and even this small amount of extra traction was enough to get the lorry rolling and move it slowly off. Was always impressive to see it.

So yes a disco might just be able to contribute that bit extra to keep it rolling.

Steep hills are a different matter. Dad spent quite a time towing lorries up a steep section of A road during the winter in the late sixties using a Muir Hill. He reckons it's was one of the most dangerous jobs he did, as if he lost traction and the whole lot started slipping back there was no telling where they would both end up.

DrWazzock · Mar 18, 2018

My mate once delivered a set of wind turbine blades up a mountain track in the north of Scotland. They towed him up with a D8. He was glad it wasn't his own lorry he was driving, given the strain on the chassis and suspension.

YorkshireAndrew · Mar 18, 2018

This winter , fed up of being cold & wet every day . [emoji20]

Sid · Mar 19, 2018

twits that don't listen to the warnings about not travelling!
Latest is a newly married couple spent their first night married in a rest centre in Okehampton as they got stuck trying to get to Cornwall in an Amber warning for up to 30cms of snow. f**king leave them in their car along with tje majority of the other f**k wits that got stuck!
My Dad's in hospital 25 miles away. I rang and said i won't come in today as its too risky.
WTF is up with people no common sense!!

roscoe erf · Mar 19, 2018

sawdust said:
My old ford ranger pulled this artic 2 miles up a steep hill on a forest road covered in black ice, lorry couldn't move just kept sliding towards the ditch with a Ponsse harvester + 2 tanks and site safe on the back, driver recons it was grossing over 50 tons, so they're not really clowns for trying, + your really only taking the strain and the lorry is doing it's own job.

tut tut 50 t and a indivisible load oh dear

smcapstick · Mar 19, 2018

Operator's licensing.

I'm not much of a hoop-jumper, and there are many hoops to jump through. It's such a damned pain in the backside! At least it'll allow @Courier to sleep more soundly, though, knowing I have all the required to tow a trailer behind my Sprinter

Av Gorritt · Mar 19, 2018

roscoe erf said:
tut tut 50 t and a indivisible load oh dear

Don't know what yer all goin' on about . There was a donkey locally that regularly pulled 50 tons many miles with no problems whatsoever !

sawdust · Mar 19, 2018

roscoe erf said:
tut tut 50 t and a indivisible load oh dear

lorry was STGO 2 plated

7610 super q · Mar 19, 2018

sawdust said:
lorry was STGO 2 plated

But not the pickup pulling it. Max would be 3.5 T ?
So 40 T over weight.
If anyone started a thread on here about pulling 44 T with something that's rated for 3.5 T, the elf n safety guys would be all over it......

sawdust · Mar 19, 2018

7610 super q said:
But not the pickup pulling it. Max would be 3 T ?
So 40 T over weight.
If anyone started a thread on here about pulling 44 T with something that's rated for 3.5, the elf n safety guys would be all over it......

It was on a forest road.as stated on original post

roscoe erf · Mar 19, 2018

sawdust said:
lorry was STGO 2 plated

and

JCMaloney · Mar 19, 2018

DrWazzock said:
Bleeding heart liberals who want me to allow inner city unemployed to experience a day on a farm. They are deprived apparently and seriously disadvantaged, that's apart from having the opportunity of a free education, free healthcare, free housing and more benefits than my monthly wage. Well er no, get off your sorry asses, get trained or pay attention in class/college rather than pissing about all the time and make your own way in life like everybody else has to do. Don't expect to come here and mess about on a tractor for a day. That ain't farming. Grafting your way up through college, work or an apprenticeship, having made the most of your education, is.

I can`t like this more than once........................but it sure as hell deserves it!!

sawdust · Mar 19, 2018

roscoe erf said:
and

To be truthful I not sure what your original point was/is, as it was on private ground, or are you now going to say all farmers shouldn't be loading their 18t trailers up or their tri axle tankers, even though they are on private land and not the main road

Baker9 · Mar 19, 2018

7610 super q said:
It's a constant battle keeping DoB off my Facebook page. Thought I'd won the battle, then it starts fussing about my birthday.

Give it a date of some sort like 11/11/1918 or 11/09/2001, computer too stupid to know any different.

roscoe erf · Mar 19, 2018

sawdust said:
To be truthful I not sure what your original point was/is, as it was on private ground, or are you now going to say all farmers shouldn't be loading their 18t trailers up or their tri axle tankers, even though they are on private land and not the main road

oh so it was not and never was on the public highway

sawdust · Mar 19, 2018

roscoe erf said:
oh so it was not and never was on the public highway

What, the lorry with the harvester + 2 tanks and site safe?

roscoe erf · Mar 19, 2018

sawdust said:
What, the lorry with the harvester + 2 tanks and site safe?

the 50t load you posted

sawdust · Mar 19, 2018

roscoe erf said:
the 50t load you posted

Yes, why was he running illegal ?

the picture I posted is only a library photo of the lorry,

smcapstick · Mar 19, 2018

Mrs Holwell · Mar 19, 2018

Sock fluff!! Hacks me off more than dog fluff!!

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