Pig muck insecure load

[young bull]

I have been leading pig muck recently and I was pulled into a lay-by for a vehicle safety check and was fined for an insecure load because I didn’t have a net over the pig muck. Has anybody else had this happen or heard of having to net every load?

 

[Brisel]

Was there loose dry stuff blowing off the top of the load? If you're an NFU member I'd ask them. There was another thread about this recently for a load of potatoes or beet.

 

[young bull]

No was dry but had been piled up for a while so fairly solid and well patted down to make sure there were no loose bits.

 

[Phil P]

Must be tightening up on ag trailers.

Un-sheeted load police fine

So, my mate has just been given an on the spot fine (£100) for having an un-sheeted load of spuds Anyone known what the law is on this? Is it a case of if there’s a sheet on the trailer you have to use it? What about trailers without rollover sheets? Don’t usually get much trouble from the...

thefarmingforum.co.uk

 

[Brisel]

 

[Brisel]

Securing loads on HGVs and goods vehicles

How to make sure goods and other items are loaded, secured and unloaded safely from HGVs, trailers, vans and cars.

www.gov.uk

 

[Steevo]

I've never seen a straw merchant net a lorry load of straw before to stop the bits flying off.

 

[Brisel]

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Sounds like a load of shite

 

[milkloss]

Sounds like a load of shite

shite from pigs........... who'd have thought it!

 

[deleted user 837354]

I've seen a tractor and trailer get pulled over for pulling beet along the road only slightly heaped up but with no tailboard. I thought that was foolhardy myself. Was the OP in a trailer with the tailgate fitted or not? I've known people cart dung without it.

Was the OP loaded to the extent that the stuff was piled up high? Might be better in a silage trailer?

 

[Deereone]

If you have and trees overhanging the road then you should net them in the autumn to prevent leaves blocking the gutters.

Where would we be now if all this nonsense had been put into law before the industrial revolution?!

 

[Hfd Cattle]

I always thought you had to sheet up to go on trunk roads or dual carriageways. .

 

[teslacoils]

They could make horse owners stop and pick up their turds for starters. Be interesting to see some of the snobby fat cows dismount to scrape a heap up into a bag and take it home.

 

[stroller]

When moving straw I find I lose bits where people have allowed their boundary trees/hedge to grow over the road, hardly lose any otherwise.

 

[fred.950]

If you have and trees overhanging the road then you should net them in the autumn to prevent leaves blocking the gutters.

Where would we be now if all this nonsense had been put into law before the industrial revolution?!

Do the leaves not fall off anyway?

 

[jonnieboy]

So it wasn’t weaving down the road leaving a trail of shite every load

 

[kiwi pom]

I have been leading pig muck recently and I was pulled into a lay-by for a vehicle safety check and was fined for an insecure load because I didn’t have a net over the pig muck. Has anybody else had this happen or heard of having to net every load?

Was the load higher than the sides of the trailer?

 

[kiwi pom]

I've never seen a straw merchant net a lorry load of straw before to stop the bits flying off.

Doesn't mean they couldn't get a ticket for it though.

 

[betweenthelines]

If the unsecured load is higher than the sides of the trailer, there is a risk of some of it coming off. Even if it's below the sides of the trailer and not secure, in that it can move, there is a risk that such movement can make the trailer unstable. Just look at the WTF thread.

It's worth remembering that the dynamics (scientific laws of mass in motion) are totally different between a couple of tonnes of pigmuck/spuds/hay towed by a MF 35 at 10 mph and 18 tonnes behind a Fendt (other makes are available) at 30 mph

I sense that like the "Don't drive your tractor to the pub" thread, this is going to run and run as some people/farmers seem unable to grasp the concept that the law applies to them as well as everyone else