Pig muck insecure load

young bull · Jan 10, 2020

I have been leading pig muck recently and I was pulled into a lay-by for a vehicle safety check and was fined for an insecure load because I didn’t have a net over the pig muck. Has anybody else had this happen or heard of having to net every load?

Brisel · Jan 10, 2020

Was there loose dry stuff blowing off the top of the load? If you're an NFU member I'd ask them. There was another thread about this recently for a load of potatoes or beet.

young bull · Jan 10, 2020

No was dry but had been piled up for a while so fairly solid and well patted down to make sure there were no loose bits.

Phil P · Jan 10, 2020

Must be tightening up on ag trailers.

Un-sheeted load police fine

So, my mate has just been given an on the spot fine (£100) for having an un-sheeted load of spuds Anyone known what the law is on this? Is it a case of if there’s a sheet on the trailer you have to use it? What about trailers without rollover sheets? Don’t usually get much trouble from the...

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Brisel · Jan 10, 2020

Brisel · Jan 10, 2020

Securing loads on HGVs and goods vehicles

How to make sure goods and other items are loaded, secured and unloaded safely from HGVs, trailers, vans and cars.

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Steevo · Jan 10, 2020

I've never seen a straw merchant net a lorry load of straw before to stop the bits flying off.

Brisel · Jan 10, 2020

Northeastfarmer · Jan 10, 2020

Sounds like a load of shite

milkloss · Jan 10, 2020

Northeastfarmer said:
Sounds like a load of shite

shite from pigs........... who'd have thought it!

ollie989898 · Jan 10, 2020

I've seen a tractor and trailer get pulled over for pulling beet along the road only slightly heaped up but with no tailboard. I thought that was foolhardy myself. Was the OP in a trailer with the tailgate fitted or not? I've known people cart dung without it.

Was the OP loaded to the extent that the stuff was piled up high? Might be better in a silage trailer?

Deereone · Jan 10, 2020

If you have and trees overhanging the road then you should net them in the autumn to prevent leaves blocking the gutters.

Where would we be now if all this nonsense had been put into law before the industrial revolution?!

Hfd Cattle · Jan 10, 2020

I always thought you had to sheet up to go on trunk roads or dual carriageways. .

teslacoils · Jan 10, 2020

They could make horse owners stop and pick up their turds for starters. Be interesting to see some of the snobby fat cows dismount to scrape a heap up into a bag and take it home.

stroller · Jan 10, 2020

When moving straw I find I lose bits where people have allowed their boundary trees/hedge to grow over the road, hardly lose any otherwise.

fred.950 · Jan 10, 2020

Deereone said:
If you have and trees overhanging the road then you should net them in the autumn to prevent leaves blocking the gutters.

Where would we be now if all this nonsense had been put into law before the industrial revolution?!

Do the leaves not fall off anyway? :scratchhead:

jonnieboy · Jan 10, 2020

So it wasn’t weaving down the road leaving a trail of shite every load

kiwi pom · Jan 10, 2020

young bull said:
I have been leading pig muck recently and I was pulled into a lay-by for a vehicle safety check and was fined for an insecure load because I didn’t have a net over the pig muck. Has anybody else had this happen or heard of having to net every load?

Was the load higher than the sides of the trailer?

kiwi pom · Jan 10, 2020

Steevo said:
I've never seen a straw merchant net a lorry load of straw before to stop the bits flying off.

Doesn't mean they couldn't get a ticket for it though.

betweenthelines · Jan 10, 2020

If the unsecured load is higher than the sides of the trailer, there is a risk of some of it coming off. Even if it's below the sides of the trailer and not secure, in that it can move, there is a risk that such movement can make the trailer unstable. Just look at the WTF thread.

It's worth remembering that the dynamics (scientific laws of mass in motion) are totally different between a couple of tonnes of pigmuck/spuds/hay towed by a MF 35 at 10 mph and 18 tonnes behind a Fendt (other makes are available) at 30 mph

I sense that like the "Don't drive your tractor to the pub" thread, this is going to run and run as some people/farmers seem unable to grasp the concept that the law applies to them as well as everyone else

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