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Highland Mule · Aug 21, 2021

mixed farm said:
The fun police are out!

You could argue Posting photos of all crashes and accidents here belittles the seriousness of them. Which by your reasoning means that everyone who views them is more likely to have an accident cause they won't take safety seriously

You can argue that if you want. I’m happy for sober and factual analysis of any accident if it helps prevent others repeating it. Call me fun police if you want, but don’t think we should be trivialising these things.

B'o'B · Aug 21, 2021

mixed farm said:
The fun police are out!

You could argue Posting photos of all crashes and accidents here belittles the seriousness of them. Which by your reasoning means that everyone who views them is more likely to have an accident cause they won't take safety seriously

If it was your car that had a bale sitting on it…. or your house ….. or your telehandler …. or your child , and the person responsible and their mate came around the corner laughing and joking about it What would you think?
Yes there is an amount of schadenfreude about this thread, but as an industry we really are not helping ourselves at all. Nor do we appear to appreciate how leniently we get treated at the minute.
I guess it will be a case of we won’t know what we had until we’ve lost it!

GmB · Aug 21, 2021

Barleycorn said:
Took the baler in for some welding. Went to pick the driver up and I asked him if he knew the way home? Course I do he replied. Well why T F have you left string beside the road? He had managed to lose two rolls in about a mile and a half!

Thought we'd better pick it up in case there's an accident, good job we've got a wire roller!View attachment 980928 View attachment 980928

My NH 276 conventional baler was good at leaving string behind, had to stuff the holes where the string came out of the back with grass to stop it.

nonemouse · Aug 21, 2021

Highland Mule said:
You can argue that if you want. I’m happy for sober and factual analysis of any accident if it helps prevent others repeating it. Call me fun police if you want, but don’t think we should be trivialising these things.

Nobody is forcing you to look at this section of the forum, if your so bothered.

mixed farm · Aug 21, 2021

B'o'B said:
If it was your car that had a bale sitting on it…. or your house ….. or your telehandler …. or your child , and the person responsible and their mate came around the corner laughing and joking about it What would you think?
Yes there is an amount of schadenfreude about this thread, but as an industry we really are not helping ourselves at all. Nor do we appear to appreciate how leniently we get treated at the minute.
I guess it will be a case of we won’t know what we had until we’ve lost it!

They wouldn't be laughing if there was a person injured. Every thing else can be fixed/replaced so crying about it will not make it better.

Phil P · Aug 21, 2021

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1428814575114276867

B'o'B · Aug 21, 2021

mixed farm said:
They wouldn't be laughing if there was a person injured. Every thing else can be fixed/replaced so crying about it will not make it better.

The guy with the camera appeared to have no clue what had happened beyond his mates bales were in someone’s driveway……

7610 super q · Aug 21, 2021

Phil P said:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1428814575114276867

Over 'ere son, on me head.....

They might not introduce more rules and regs that some on here are clamouring for.
They might ban straw haulage on the road altogether. That'll shut a few up.
Careful what you wish for.

B'o'B · Aug 21, 2021

7610 super q said:
Over 'ere son, on me head.....

They might not introduce more rules and regs that some on here are clamouring for.
They might ban straw haulage on the road altogether. That'll shut a few up.
Careful what you wish for.

I don’t think many are hoping for more regulation, personally I’m just hoping that we can all use our loaves a bit more and reduce the amount of accidents we are having, both on and off road.

Limcrazy · Aug 21, 2021

puppet said:
I know someone who left the golf club worse for wear and his knitted jumper got caught on something. By the time he realised he only had half a jumper left.

I saw a programme about man whose knitted jumper caught on something on the way into a cave. Anyway they got lost but were able to follow the wool back out again.

PSQ · Aug 21, 2021

mixed farm said:
The fun police are out!

You could argue Posting photos of all crashes and accidents here belittles the seriousness of them. Which by your reasoning means that everyone who views them is more likely to have an accident cause they won't take safety seriously

The internet is full of people who are 'offended', it's a full time job for many people, but it doesn't make it any less tedious.

3,2,1: the toys are going to get thrown out of the pram, and we're going to be accused of being complicit in someone else's screwups at the other end of the country, because we haven't all wagged our fingers.

Fendt516profi · Aug 21, 2021

B'o'B · Aug 21, 2021

PSQ said:
The internet is full of people who are 'offended', it's a full time job for many people, but it doesn't make it any less tedious.

3,2,1: the toys are going to get thrown out of the pram, and we're going to be accused of being complicit in someone else's screwups at the other end of the country, because we haven't all wagged our fingers.

I think people are just trying to point out that if all we do is laugh and carry on as normal when these things happen, without trying to do anything differently to stop them then the real killjoys will get involved.
If you think the finger wagers on this thread are bad you ain’t seen nothing yet!
The Department for Transport and VOSA have absolutely no sense of humor when it comes to these things.

betweenthelines · Aug 21, 2021

A good start to taking accidents seriously is to stop calling them "accidents"!

An accident is an unforeseen occurrence, whereas a lot of what is posted on here is foreseeable and certainly avoidable!

Deerefarmer · Aug 21, 2021

^^^^^^^ please can we make this the "most liked post of 2021"... please

PSQ · Aug 21, 2021

B'o'B said:
I think people are just trying to point out that if all we do is laugh and carry on as normal when these things happen, without trying to do anything differently to stop them then the real killjoys will get involved.
If you think the finger wagers on this thread are bad you ain’t seen nothing yet!
The Department for Transport and VOSA have absolutely no sense of humor when it comes to these things.

Quite the opposite: If you want to stop these types of ‘accident’ then we need a more serious and appropriate reaction from the authorities, we need proper standards to get the converted artics off the roads (let’s call that abomination with the dolly what it is, a piece of sh!t), fines that reflect the cost of not running a fit and proper trailer and the damage caused, and farmers put behind bars for taking the pee.

But certain posters being all ‘high and mighty’ and pious serves no purpose whatsoever.

B'o'B · Aug 21, 2021

PSQ said:
Quite the opposite: If you want to stop these types of ‘accident’ then we need a more serious and appropriate reaction from the authorities, we need proper standards to get the converted artics off the roads (let’s call that abomination with the dolly what it is, a piece of sh!t), fines that reflect the cost of not running a fit and proper trailer and the damage caused, and farmers put behind bars for taking the pee.

But certain posters being all ‘high and mighty’ and pious serves no purpose whatsoever.

We should be able to do it ourselves.

Personally I think DfT and VOSA act far more ‘high and mighty’ than anyone posting on here, when they decide to turn their gaze on Ag. and I somehow doubt the will clamp down done in anything like a proportionate manner when it does come.

Will 1594 · Aug 21, 2021

PSQ said:
Quite the opposite: If you want to stop these types of ‘accident’ then we need a more serious and appropriate reaction from the authorities, we need proper standards to get the converted artics off the roads (let’s call that abomination with the dolly what it is, a piece of sh!t), fines that reflect the cost of not running a fit and proper trailer and the damage caused, and farmers put behind bars for taking the pee.

But certain posters being all ‘high and mighty’ and pious serves no purpose whatsoever.

You can have all the fancy trailers and side openin* gates , as many straps as you like ,
new trailer old trailer ,in the wrong hands you will still have it on its side ,

PSQ · Aug 21, 2021

B'o'B said:
We should be able to do it ourselves.

But we don't, all the pictures on here should make that abundantly clear.

To be fair, if VOSA and the police did their jobs properly then farmers would sit up and take notice.

Will 1594 said:
You can have all the fancy trailers and side openin* gates , as many straps as you like ,
new trailer old trailer ,in the wrong hands you will still have it on its side ,

Working brakes and lights would be a start.

B'o'B · Aug 21, 2021

PSQ said:
But we don't, all the pictures on here should make that abundantly clear.

To be fair, if VOSA and the police did their jobs properly then farmers would sit up and take notice.

Working brakes and lights would be a start.

I don’t disagree with any of that.

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