New Holland TL100 Towing

[A1an]

Each time we chip timber for the biomass unit we have around 10-15 tons of bark left over in the yard. I have been tipping it in an "environmental pile" for the last couple of years but this has been raised in an audit so I need to get rid of it somehow, apparently its a "waste product"!

I am looking at putting it to our local sawmill for them to burn in their biomass boiler but I need to get it there. This would mean getting a suitable trailer but I've searched for towing specs of the TL100 and have drawn a blank. I'd like to do it in one trip if possible. The mill is 4 miles along a straight A road so not exactly long distance.

Any advice on towing capacity and trailer recommendation greatly received.

 

[Mur Huwcun]

The TL100 will have a stupid gross train weight like 36tonnes! It will easily manage a 10 tonne tipping trailer. It won’t really like a 15T load though and with the unladen trailer weight you will be pushing on the 18.29T max gross weight anyhow. With that size of tractor you’re only really limited at how it can handle the load rather than pulling it. Anything over 12T is going to be the tail wagging the dog really and won’t be a pleasant trip. Ok for a one off maybe but for a regular occurrence I’d go for a 10T grain type tipping trailer. Unless your bark is soaking wet and mushy it’s not going to be stupidly heavy per m/cu.

 

[Exfarmer]

You will struggle to find a trailer capable of carrying more than 8/9 tonnes of chipped material.
your tractor can can tow 3 times its weight up to 18 tonnes gross

 

[A1an]

You will struggle to find a trailer capable of carrying more than 8/9 tonnes of chipped material.
your tractor can can tow 3 times its weight up to 18 tonnes gross

This is not chipped material, this is very wet and heavy bark. To give you an idea, the 3 cube bucket hold 750-800kgs of dry chip or 1 ton of wet chip. Today one 3 cube bucket of bark was 2.25 tons, granted it has been rained and snowed on for a week whilst lying on the yard floor. In summer the same load of bark can be 6-9 tons.

 

[Bury the Trash]

As @Mur Huwcun has posted , a ten tonner will comfortable .

Having said that we Used to use a herbst 12t dump trailler to move around shale, topsoil etc ...on our tl90 when we had it, ... Course a dump trailler has a higher tare weight but you're not tempted to overload ir , as in when using the likes of a high sided grain trailer iyswim.

 

[A1an]

A 10ton grain trailer was my first thought.

 

[ollandroverman]

Haulage = wagon legaly required

 

[A1an]

Haulage = wagon legaly required

So how does a farmer haul muck to a muck heap? By wagon?

 

[tweedale terrier]

Put an ad on gumtree free vegan food ?

 

[Lincs Lass]

Bark waste is lovely stuff for soft play areas or mulching gardens ,advertise it ,let folks collect it

 

[A1an]

Bark waste is lovely stuff for soft play areas or mulching gardens ,advertise it ,let folks collect it

To be honest with you, a) I don’t have the time, 2) I’m not keen on joe public being about the yard with timber lorries and artics going back and forth and c) there would just be too much of it, 10-15 tons every 10 days is too much to even give away.

it was one my first thought though.

 

[ollandroverman]

So how does a farmer haul muck to a muck heap? By wagon?

That's not haulage. It's material movement within a business
Road movement to an unconnected buissiness is haulage.

 

[Deerefarmer]

This is what you need....

Horsepower, jakes, 60 mph, have fun while you're doing your job [emoji106]

 

[Sharpy]

This is not chipped material, this is very wet and heavy bark. To give you an idea, the 3 cube bucket hold 750-800kgs of dry chip or 1 ton of wet chip. Today one 3 cube bucket of bark was 2.25 tons, granted it has been rained and snowed on for a week whilst lying on the yard floor. In summer the same load of bark can be 6-9 tons.

Its the same weight/density as wheat and as a rule of thumb tractors are generally happy at 1 ton of payload per 10hp. As an aside would it be any good as bedding? Worth drying as a super absorbant bedding? Fines from Jenkinson are heading for £30/t uplifted.........

 

[Mursal]

Is that not called garden mulch?

 

[tweedale terrier]

Maybe a local farmer could use it for gateways or cow tracks

 

[Cowabunga]

That's not haulage. It's material movement within a business
Road movement to an unconnected buissiness is haulage.

Farmers can haul their own loads to a customer with no legal issues. It is only when doing it for others for a fee that it gets complicated. Farmers have delivered sugar beet to factories behind tractors for generations.
Not sure what the situation is should the farmer employ a contractor to tractor the product to its destination though. I suspect that might need white diesel because it isn't simply hauled from a field to the farm as would be the case with grain, straw and silage.

 

[A1an]

I'm hauling it to get rid of it, no hire, no reward. If push came to shove I'd pay THEM a pound a ton to take it

 

[Renaultman]

I would stick an advert on my local page bark is sought after by gardeners.

 

[Sharpy]

I'm hauling it to get rid of it, no hire, no reward. If push came to shove I'd pay THEM a pound a ton to take it

Roughly where are you?