On board road cameras............

[hillbill]

Anyone on here using them in their tractors/agric vehicles?? We're seriously considering them, as the amount of near misses we witness on a almost daily basis is getting alarming. I cant help but think that its only a matter of time before the inevitable happens.........

 

[6480]

Anyone on here using them in their tractors/agric vehicles?? We're seriously considering them, as the amount of near misses we witness on a almost daily basis is getting alarming. I cant help but think that its only a matter of time before the inevitable happens.........

I see alot of truck drivers have them to have for evidence

 

[DeeGee]

Got them in two cars: whether or not they are admissible in evidence for insurance claims, for the sake of sixty or seventy quid they have to be worth fitting.
If some lame brained mental dwaarf crashes into my stationary vehicle because they are travelling so fast that they cannot stop in time, then I am damn sure I ain't going accept knock for knock from my insurance company.

 

[Cowabunga]

Yes, a young lad was sadly killed a few miles away not long ago. Two trucks, including the one he crashed his car into head on had video footage that showed exactly what happened.

I don't have a camera in the tractor but all my cars have them. Have a look at other topics on this here on the forum.

In a tractor you don't need a screen and you do not want one that attaches by suckers. You do want to position it where the wiper clears the screen in front of it. Don't go for a cheap one because they have batteries that don't like heat and their angle of view can be narrow and night vision terrible.
Do wire it in to a permanent live [it will detect parking and switch to parking sleep mode automatically]. Note that they run on 5V not 12, so you need a cheap hard-wire kit. Plus a 32gig class 10 micro SD card to minimise overwriting. [a 4GB card obviously overwrites 8 times as often as a 32 GB card and every couple of hours]
Don't forget to switch the emergency file saving feature off in a tractor otherwise the card will fill up with video files that cannot be overwritten every few days due to rough terrain. The better cameras will have remote buttons to press to save a file permanently from up to a minute before pressing the button to a minute after.
As I said, see other topic for more information.

 

[WOODCHIP]

We have dash cams in our tractors , we got sick of idiots on the roads and one of our team was verbally abused by a female cyclist who tried to over take at a set of traffic lights and then use a lot of bad language when he pipped his horn at her when she cut him up.

 

[Deere 6430]

Dash cams in every tractor here going on the road for the last year, had two situations of drivers being abusive or overtaking and then slamming the brakes on and police said dash cam was the crucial bit so they could deal with the driver of the car. Sad but true, we seem to have a world of muppets and very few decent people such as ourselves on here. Would highly recommend and hope you don't ever need them in an accident. Halfords sell next base and that fitted on a bracket I made and works perfectly, can take a photo if any wants to see?

 

[Bumble Bee]

I have one in my sprayer. Here's a little gem from earlier in the week.

 

[powerontheland]

I have one, but not got round to fitting it yet

 

[Thick Farmer]

I have one, but not got round to fitting it yet

Good to know!

 

[Treemover]

I have one in my sprayer. Here's a little gem from earlier in the week.

Hi Bumblebee, would you be able to get their reg off that clip?
I'm just using my phone to view, but is the clip clear enough to give evidence?

 

[Bumble Bee]

Hi Bumblebee, would you be able to get their reg off that clip?
I'm just using my phone to view, but is the clip clear enough to give evidence?

No. Picture is not clear enough to get the reg. Need to get a better camera.

It could be because it is focusing on the bonnet rather than the road ahead. Not sure how I can rectify that.

 

[hillbill]

Cheers for the input folks. its something were going to pursue.