ColinV6
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Can just imagine the chopper sitting in the field with nothing to do while 4 trailers sit at the gateway their drivers wrestling on a tarp and strapping it down, 60 times a day each
Insecure load !!!!
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Can just imagine the chopper sitting in the field with nothing to do while 4 trailers sit at the gateway their drivers wrestling on a tarp and strapping it down, 60 times a day each
icanshootwell
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- Location
- Ross-on-wye
Snapped this one a while back!
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
came back from Cardigan the other day, and saw three round bales on the road!
- Location
- Romney Marsh
Lincs Lass
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- Location
- north lincs
betweenthelines
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- Location
- southwest
Trying to hitch a lift?
ricky_rascal
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- Location
- N. Yorks
Tch! No mudguards
Just begging to be pulled over….
ricky_rascal
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- Location
- N. Yorks
Straw? Are they still there
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
silage, but too big to pop onto the back of the pickup!Straw? Are they still there
kiwi pom
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- Location
- canterbury NZ
Tarps don't have to be that way, flick a switch in the cab, job done.Can just imagine the chopper sitting in the field with nothing to do while 4 trailers sit at the gateway their drivers wrestling on a tarp and strapping it down, 60 times a day each
When people don't want to do something, they will make it sound like the most complicated job in the world.
And of course the expense incurred installing flicked switch simplicity to every trailer can be easily recouped: The supermarkets will happily pay more for our produce
It's a shame common sense isn't so easily purchased, for then we wouldn't need listen to the fluorescent vested clipboards
ColinV6
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Yes and how many thousands is an electric tarp? There is none round our way that I’ve ever seen. Always a normal tarp with bungee cord fastenings.
Folllowed a Tranny type drop-side truck one day with about half a dozen 6m brown 110mm sewage type pipes strapped to his headboard. I watched them becoming slacker and slacker until they finally came adrift - I had been pulling back a bit all the time!!! Funny thing was they ALL ended up on the verge even though they were above the driver. He was VERY lucky nothing was coming towards him at the right time.... I had a bit of fun phoning a guy that works at the builders merchants..... Good visual effect...
Another day on the same straight stretch of A road a motorbike passed me at a SERIOUS rate of knots ( when they`re passed you before you even knew they were there, type!) anyway about 2 miles further on dropping down in to our village the same gent was having a walk on the moor with his sports bike..... the bend must have suddenly appeared.... It was a job to not wind the window down and wish him "Good Morning"... Those big fat slick tyres don`t suit peaty moor ground very well..
Good visual effect...Another day on the same straight stretch of A road a motorbike passed me at a SERIOUS rate of knots ( when they`re passed you before you even knew they were there, type!) anyway about 2 miles further on dropping down in to our village the same gent was having a walk on the moor with his sports bike..... the bend must have suddenly appeared....
It was a job to not wind the window down and wish him "Good Morning"... Those big fat slick tyres don`t suit peaty moor ground very well..
kiwi pom
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- Location
- canterbury NZ
Just saying that it's possible to comply with the law without making a big drama about it.
Does it cost, yes of course (insert supermarket whinge here) but these ridiculously over spec'd trailers many people use now for carting a bit of grass are expensive too, but that doesn't seem to matter.
According to folks on here loads are supposed to be sheeted, the transport industry can't afford it either but they (mostly) comply. Farming gets away with a hell of a lot.
Common sense would tell me to sheet a load that can blow/fall off while going down the road. Common sense seems lacking on here though.
If you want to take the risk, its fine, you'll probably be ok. Don't p*ss and moan if you get caught.
Does it cost, yes of course (insert supermarket whinge here) but these ridiculously over spec'd trailers many people use now for carting a bit of grass are expensive too, but that doesn't seem to matter.
According to folks on here loads are supposed to be sheeted, the transport industry can't afford it either but they (mostly) comply. Farming gets away with a hell of a lot.
Common sense would tell me to sheet a load that can blow/fall off while going down the road. Common sense seems lacking on here though.
If you want to take the risk, its fine, you'll probably be ok. Don't p*ss and moan if you get caught.
The world would be a much nicer place without people who take such unnecessary pleasure from their sanctimonious stance
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
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.Folllowed a Tranny type drop-side truck one day with about half a dozen 6m brown 110mm sewage type pipes strapped to his headboard. I watched them becoming slacker and slacker until they finally came adrift - I had been pulling back a bit all the time!!! Funny thing was they ALL ended up on the verge even though they were above the driver. He was VERY lucky nothing was coming towards him at the right time.... I had a bit of fun phoning a guy that works at the builders merchants.....
Another day on the same straight stretch of A road a motorbike passed me at a SERIOUS rate of knots ( when they`re passed you before you even knew they were there, type!) anyway about 2 miles further on dropping down in to our village the same gent was having a walk on the moor with his sports bike..... the bend must have suddenly appeared....
kiwi pom
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- Location
- canterbury NZ
It'll be a much nicer place if all the cowboys were put out of business, leave the job to those who can do it right and spend the money to do it right.
Worlds full of cheats though, crack on doesn't bother me.
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!
suffolksmallholder
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- Location
- Suffolk
Heading up into Naaaarfik on the B1149 I managed to miss a piece of what looked like Claas drawbar laying in the road. Luckily not attached to a trailer
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