Cab-over Pete
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- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
No, not with an Agricultural Machine
@Cab-over Pete If the bits ever come available, are you going to carry on with the conversion or is "Type Approval" still going to be the achilles heel of the whole operation?
Can you tow 750kg trailers? No help to you I know but see a few with small trailers for sprays etcAnything classed as an Agricultural Machine can’t tow any trailer on the road. So sp spreaders, sprayers etc cant tow trailers. The only exception is a combine and that can only tow it’s own header. No empty trailers, no fuel bowsers, nothing else.
So I need a machine classed as a tractor. I don’t want a tractor and trailed spreader. We are known for travelling as light as possible on the land and you can’t do that with a tractor and trailed spreader. So I need a self propelled machine classed as a tractor that can legally pull a trailer with the Loadall on.
Enter the Xerion.
But no tractor at all can tow any trailer if it’s over 3 metres wide. They can tow implements with an escort, but not trailers in a truly self contained one man outfit.
Hence my huge efforts to find the right tractor with the right wheels and tyres to squeeze under 3 metres and still travel well in crab steer with the best flexion tyres I can find. There is nothing else that ticks all those boxes.
Don't believe its legal to tow the 2nd trailer loaded and a right pia to drop spreader off hitch low loader up load handler then hitch spreader on back then do the reverse at next farm
Three wheels running on the same piece of ground? Front wheel, rear wheel, spreader wheel. No thanks.
I’m not going round in circles again and again about my choice of spreader. I use a self propelled machine with the biggest and best tyres I can buy. And it needs to be legal on the road. No discussion required.
Not being funny with you by any means, it’s just been done to death!!!
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That’s got pete written all over it
Maybe something like a self loading feeder wagon. More weight while spreading but you would load faster so you'd be able to get away with less capacity so less weight.