Bale trailers, Rigid or turntable?

tomg

Member
Location
York
Nearly all our straw this year will be carted without going on the road at all. All big open fields and no tight gateways so probably not to much issue where I put the hitch!
 

Stewie

Member
Location
Northern Italy
The trailer in the picture is the norm around here nowadays for bale carting. Never seen 3 axis flatbed semi-trailers like the ones you guys use to move bales and machinery
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Oscar

Member
Livestock Farmer
How do you get on or rate their stuff ? (merrick loggin) After another bowser and see they make them but it all looks second hand stuff /converted. Nothing wrong with that but is it all done well and legal?
 

mph04

Member
Location
driffeild
I dunno how turn table trailers stack. Up. Leagaly now
But imo yes easyer to get about but if you need weight on towing machine there pointless yes odd home made ones will give weight again how leagal I dunno now
 

Andrew

Never Forgotten
Honorary Member
Location
Huntingdon, UK
I dunno how turn table trailers stack. Up. Leagaly now
But imo yes easyer to get about but if you need weight on towing machine there pointless yes odd home made ones will give weight again how leagal I dunno now

Dollies are fine and legal as long ad you follow the rules.

As long as it is a garage operation to remove the dolly - ie remove the landing legs then it is classed as one trailer not too. There are other rules regarding brakes etc. But the front acle doesn’t necessarily have to be braked.
 

mo!

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
York
Dollies are fine and legal as long ad you follow the rules.

As long as it is a garage operation to remove the dolly - ie remove the landing legs then it is classed as one trailer not too. There are other rules regarding brakes etc. But the front acle doesn’t necessarily have to be braked.
Do you have any links to this info. I'm not debating it, I've heard many different tales but nothing definitive.
 

MOG

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Llanthony
We used to use them in Germany when I lived there. You could pull up in a road, just bit wider than the trailer and then reverse it into a barn door at 90 degrees to the road. The secret was to drop the trailer off, turn the tractor, and put the drawbar on the front hitch and push the trailer into the shed. It was a piece of urine to get it anywhere you wanted that way.

Was looking for something else and found a Polish company importing turn-table trailers the other day....

http://www.machinerysaleseu.co.uk/index.php?route=product/category&path=59_79

Looks like it is the same company as that Ebay advert up there ^^^^
 

Andrew

Never Forgotten
Honorary Member
Location
Huntingdon, UK
Do you have any links to this info. I'm not debating it, I've heard many different tales but nothing definitive.

Not at the moment as I’m away, but if you buy Agricultural Vehicles On the Road (or similar title) by Mike Sumner and Mike Braithwaite it’s all in there.
 

Andrew

Never Forgotten
Honorary Member
Location
Huntingdon, UK
Not at the moment as I’m away, but if you buy Agricultural Vehicles On the Road (or similar title) by Mike Sumner and Mike Braithwaite it’s all in there.

Not going to post it verbatim here but basically if it’s a dolly separable by a pull of a lever then the dolly and the trailer need brakes.

If it’s separable by means of a garage operation then only 50% (or 4 wheels if more than 4 wheels fitted) must be braked.

The book is about £35 IIRC and is well worth it.
 

Khan

Member
Location
Emerald Isle
Have a dolly to shunt straw artics about and anything less than dry field and heavy tractor and they are difficult to move with zero weight on drawbar. The 5th wheel is pretty much over the dolly axle. How further forward do they have to be to get decent weight transfer?
 

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