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puppet

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Livestock Farmer
Location
sw scotland
Ignore autotrac and all that fancy stuff.
Raided an old toy box, 14m artic length, job looks good though tight on the way out. No fee but no comeback either.
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JeremyD

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Arable Farmer
Problem is if its tight when its loaded on entry it will be even tighter when the weight comes off on exiting the empty trailer scrubs less and cuts in even more, I have been into yards that were tight getting in and spent about an hour struggling to get back out!
 
Have a very similar layout here but 23’ into 30’6”..............although 6” gutters either side of the 23’ so 22’ Max really and it’s fair tight, vast majority get in first attempt but more like half get out on first attempt.
Drivers who are used to farm deliveries don’t make any fuss about it, hopefully we don’t have too many others and the number of lorry’s having to get around are certainly in single figures and usually no more than a handful in a year.

I’m certainly not convinced it’s possible with two foot less...............not getting out anyway, it allways looks more difficult getting out here as has been mentioned earlier
 

24/7 farming

Member
Location
Donegal
Pretty much as folks above have said!, doable getting in, but getting out is ridiculously tight!, it would be scraping the moss off walls I think!!! I used a 15.5m artic wit 12m trailer for what is shown. Red lines are wheels and green are overhangs.
Technically, it should be able to squeeze out!!, but not a runner for regular movements
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Piles of room, we run lorries the turn into our is yard 4 meters into 10meters
I find that very hard to believe, 4m into a 10m gateway where you can cut through on an angle would be quite do able but put hard boundaries in like buildings where you can’t cut through and have to turn 90 degrees and it just ain’t happening with a standard 45 foot artic
 

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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