£350 for CPC to hold an O license?
Project Xerion.
- Thread starter Cab-over Pete
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£350 for CPC to hold an O license?
Boohoo
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- Location
- Newtownabbey
Yes. Just checked website and it's up to £390 for this year
- Location
- Huntingdon, UK
Thats what the local training company is advertising for an intensive course.
- Location
- Huntingdon, UK
But wouldn’t be legal?
Foxcover
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How wouldn’t it be legal? Because conventional tractors aren’t legally allowed to go 50k?
- Location
- Ardrossan Ayrshire
Wide load iirc
Foxcover
Member
Already been talk in this thread about putting Big A on narrower tyres, newer tech ones with longer footprint
- Location
- Huntingdon, UK
I’m sure Pete has said why previously in this thread. Think you’d have to get the width down to below 3m and stick to 40k.
YELROM
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- Location
- North Yorkshire
79 pages
Wouldn't it just be easier for Pete to retrain as a plumber
Wouldn't it just be easier for Pete to retrain as a plumber
you think he could pipe the lime out in to the fields ?79 pages
Wouldn't it just be easier for Pete to retrain as a plumber
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Could you not just start towing your telehandler behind the xerion?
What's the worst that could happen? How big a fine would you get?
What's the worst that could happen? How big a fine would you get?
Foxcover
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I think the problem is that the Xerion isn’t as good at spreading as Pete hoped. The Big A is the ideal machine but you can’t tow a loader with it legally.
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Is that main problem @Cab-over Pete ?
Is xerion not suitable for spreading lime.
Bet you wish you never started this thread!
A bunch of keyboard warriors trying to run your business
- Location
- Huntingdon, UK
79 pages
Wouldn't it just be easier for Pete to retrain as a plumber
Plus however many pages on the threads before the build started!
I believe that is why Pete went for the Xerion, it is legal to tow a trailer with loader on as it is a tractor. However IIRC the Xerion is overly complicated and has a few issues with spreading
Dukes Fit
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Strange that, all the lads round here all have their own loaders they tow with them.
Remember as a kid the guy that used to come here with 3 Big A’s and towed a Ford 555 loader behind one of them. Had a jaw hitch on the bucket and pulled behind with the engine running.
Another local guy with a trailer spreader has a hydraulic frame on the back of the loader that pushes a pair of super singles down to lift the rear wheels off the road.
Also seen a 360 with a set of super singles to pull behind Big A.
I assume it’s down to interpretation of the law but if braking was an issue then it would be very easy to connect up brakes to a super single dolly.
Foxcover
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I don’t know if it’s legal to tow with a 3 wheeler.
Tomr10
Member
This is the thing most dont know the requirements ir do and ignore. I dint but now Pete has repeated them several times I have an idea
blue power
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- Location
- Staffordshire
Would it not be cheaper to just run the one machine and get someone to drive the JCB
or a tractor and loader with a high tip bucket that could be used for other work the rest of the year.
or a tractor and loader with a high tip bucket that could be used for other work the rest of the year.
Scholsey
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Think the biggest problem is customers with unrealistic/unnecessary expectations, a few customers that would rather not have a trailed limespreader but have a trailed drill, sprayer, grain trailers, balers, bale chasers, bale trailers all running the same tramlines they want you lime spread on.
The customers who are expecting you to spread lime with a hovercraft loaded via telekinesis are probably the same ones who would cancel on you after 1mm of rain or £5/t drop wheat price.
79 pages of how to complicate a simple job.
The customers who are expecting you to spread lime with a hovercraft loaded via telekinesis are probably the same ones who would cancel on you after 1mm of rain or £5/t drop wheat price.
79 pages of how to complicate a simple job.