Insecure load !!!!

[Netherfield]

Full of cowboys? Cheats? Unlike your pious pharisaic self of course. No sheet on a silage trailer, unlike for example no straps on a load of bales? The former isn't going to injure a soul

Advocating adding thousands to the cost of carting a bit of fodder doesn't create better produce, better welfare, better safety even. It just adds cost for the sake of fulfilling a pedants proclivity

You may have some reasons to want to put farmers out of business, though you've never divulged quite what created the missing lump of shoulder? Do these reasons preclude you from helping to counter the dearth of common sense that challenges our way of life?

There are indeed awful examples of danger created by idiots flouting wisdom, and these quite rightly need chastised. But not sheeting a silage trailer hardly advocates calling every farmer a cheat and a cowboy!

Only one barrel, you might at least have given him both.

 

[kiwi pom]

Full of cowboys? Cheats? Unlike your pious pharisaic self of course. No sheet on a silage trailer, unlike for example no straps on a load of bales? The former isn't going to injure a soul

Advocating adding thousands to the cost of carting a bit of fodder doesn't create better produce, better welfare, better safety even. It just adds cost for the sake of fulfilling a pedants proclivity

You may have some reasons to want to put farmers out of business, though you've never divulged quite what created the missing lump of shoulder? Do these reasons preclude you from helping to counter the dearth of common sense that challenges our way of life?

There are indeed awful examples of danger created by idiots flouting wisdom, and these quite rightly need chastised. But not sheeting a silage trailer hardly advocates calling every farmer a cheat and a cowboy!

I don't make the rules, I am capable of common sense though.
I certainly wouldn't sheet silage for little, short runs down the road (I wouldn't pile them up 4 feet over the sides either) but would cover if I was a contractor or hauling for miles on A roads or employed staff to do it, same for other insecure loads, just as the transport industry has to.

Plenty of people do spend lots of time and money compiling with rules they don't agree with. Those people are then put at a disadvantage by those who apparently know better and can do what they want.

I'm a big supporter of professional farmers who do things right and know plenty of them, cowboys should realise farming isn't compulsory and go do something else.
Maybe the jobs too much for you.
Carry on ranting though if it makes you feel better.

 

[Y Fan Wen]

I was driving back from Aberystwyth towards Llanfarian, following a sailing boat being towed behind a car. The mast was still up, and it kept hitting overhanging branches, then in Rhydyfelin a branch got the better of the mast and snapped it off. I guess that was going to happen, so was hanging back a fair bit.

Years ago I was plodding up the Oakley Drive between Maentwrog and Gellilydan in my mk 1 Transit and came up behind a scrappers lorry making even heavier weather of the job, clouds of black smoke and 15 mph. I held well back to avoid the smoke and anything dropping off the back. Of course I was overtaken and the car then proceeded to tailgate sat in the middle of the smokescreen. He stopped when an anonymous bit of metal dropped off and dented the bonnet! Ho hum!!

 

[roscoe erf]

While on patrol officers from RCAT including one of our #LincsSpecials who is a farmer, came across this tractor towing a trailer loaded with 20 round bales of straw.
The weight alone will not stop them from coming off if the trailer met another vehicle

The farmer was issued a ‘ticket’ for an insecure load and once properly strapped down he was allowed on his way
Having been suitably educated

If he had strap them down before he started that journey. We would have waved as he went by in the opposite direction

 

[Steevo]

While on patrol officers from RCAT including one of our #LincsSpecials who is a farmer, came across this tractor towing a trailer loaded with 20 round bales of straw.
The weight alone will not stop them from coming off if the trailer met another vehicle

The farmer was issued a ‘ticket’ for an insecure load and once properly strapped down he was allowed on his way
Having been suitably educated

If he had strap them down before he started that journey. We would have waved as he went by in the opposite direction

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Looks to me like they are strapped on in the first photo!

 

[ford 7810]

While on patrol officers from RCAT including one of our #LincsSpecials who is a farmer, came across this tractor towing a trailer loaded with 20 round bales of straw.
The weight alone will not stop them from coming off if the trailer met another vehicle

The farmer was issued a ‘ticket’ for an insecure load and once properly strapped down he was allowed on his way
Having been suitably educated

If he had strap them down before he started that journey. We would have waved as he went by in the opposite direction

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There’s a thread in the machinery section Ascenso tyres I wonder how he’s getting on with them

 

[tractorsandcows]

While on patrol officers from RCAT including one of our #LincsSpecials who is a farmer, came across this tractor towing a trailer loaded with 20 round bales of straw.
The weight alone will not stop them from coming off if the trailer met another vehicle

The farmer was issued a ‘ticket’ for an insecure load and once properly strapped down he was allowed on his way
Having been suitably educated

If he had strap them down before he started that journey. We would have waved as he went by in the opposite direction

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Glad all burglaries assaults thefts etc have been solved so that the police can deal with this matter

 

[Steevo]

Glad all burglaries assaults thefts etc have been solved so that the police can deal with this matter

Just looked up RCAT - Rural Crime Action Team.

It seems that this is what constitutes "Rural Crime" nowadays.