Sheet your load.......

[hoyboy]

Complete rubbish, unless you have a road as flat as a snooker table and drive at a snails pace, unstrapped bales are dangerous. I just cannot work out why farming seemingly attracts people who cannot be arsed to take the slightest measures to be safer. Personally I've only ever lost one item, wheelbarrow off the back of a trailer with sides. Trailer hit bump wind got under barrow and off it flew. Fortunately no one behind me at time. Lesson learnt, everything strapped down thereafter

I've shifted thousands of bales and never had any fall off on a public road. Had plenty fall off on farm tracks when I was a kid but that's how you learn to build them on a trailer properly. Only going a few miles a single 3rd row and no straps. Longer distances a full trailer and use straps. You drive accordingly, obviously you don't go flat out round every corner and every dip in the road straps or no straps. I've driven some dodgy rigs here and abroad, little or no brakes, overloaded by a factor of 3 etc etc. You just drive accordingly and use a bit of wit

 

[Renaultman]

I've shifted thousands of bales and never had any fall off on a public road. Had plenty fall off on farm tracks when I was a kid but that's how you learn to build them on a trailer properly. Only going a few miles a single 3rd row and no straps. Longer distances a full trailer and use straps. You drive accordingly, obviously you don't go flat out round every corner and every dip in the road straps or no straps. I've driven some dodgy rigs here and abroad, little or no brakes, overloaded by a factor of 3 etc etc. You just drive accordingly and use a bit of wit

Although I agree and have probably done all the things you mentioned, and more, you just can't get away with this sort of thing anymore

 

[hintonroadhero]

Complete rubbish, unless you have a road as flat as a snooker table and drive at a snails pace, unstrapped bales are dangerous. I just cannot work out why farming seemingly attracts people who cannot be arsed to take the slightest measures to be safer. Personally I've only ever lost one item, wheelbarrow off the back of a trailer with sides. Trailer hit bump wind got under barrow and off it flew. Fortunately no one behind me at time. Lesson learnt, everything strapped down thereafter

Had an incidence a few years ago...5.00am one morning .. still dark.. following a UTE and trailer.. saw the trailer skip over a hump in the road... then a dark shadow moving through the air..followed by a number of sparks on the road surface.. then the shadow came up off the road... and a big square nose shovel hit the windscreen, thankfully on the passenger side..glass everywhere!!!! driver oblivious to his loss....tidied things up.. drove 20kms to the next town and spotted the driver parked up in a café..stopped to explain what had happened.."nah not my shovel mate"......that's strange mate "its got the registration number of the trailer burnt into the handle......no worries I'll call the cops"....he exchanged details very quickly after that.. scary because if I'd had a passenger it would have been a shovel in the face... wise up folks!!!!

 

[kill]

£150 on mirror guards. Can't afford £30 for some more straps

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1546147239038488576

This is deemed unsafe.

 

[Kidds]

Saw a wagon and drag loaded by the same guy last week.

 

[Sid]

Using a mobile whilst driving

Using a phone, sat nav or other device when driving

It’s illegal to hold a phone or a sat nav while driving - you'll get penalty points, a fine and can be banned from driving.

www.gov.uk

£200 Fine and 6 points

 

[fieldfarmer]

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To be fair kill, that looks like a branch has caught and broken the front top bail and with the straps slack the same branch has pushed them over, he might be heading to a safe place to stop.

 

[Highland Mule]

he might be heading to a safe place to stop

Have a closer look at the first picture. He’s ten yards past a side road/ gate entrance there, which would have been an excellent place to stop.

 

[kill]

Have a closer look at the first picture. He’s ten yards past a side road/ gate entrance there, which would have been an excellent place to stop.

In all honesty that’s an extremely large lay-by

 

[Highland Mule]

In all honesty that’s an extremely large lay-by

Would have been perfect to stop in then.

 

[Sid]

To be fair kill, that looks like a branch has caught and broken the front top bail and with the straps slack the same branch has pushed them over, he might be heading to a safe place to stop.

Would have been perfect to stop in then.

Perhaps they did and restrapped the load.

Perhaps it is made good after what ever happened.

You can't actually see the rear of the trailer to see how it's strapped so really as ever it's gossip and guesswork.

Only offence in the pictures based on the evidence is using mobile whilst driving.

 

[kill]

Perhaps they did and restrapped the load.

Perhaps it is made good after what ever happened.

You can't actually see the rear of the trailer to see how it's strapped so really as ever it's gossip and guesswork.

Only offence in the pictures based on the evidence is using mobile whilst driving.

Blue tractor driver was stopped as feared an accident was about to happen due to an unsafe load

 

[Highland Mule]

Perhaps they did and restrapped the load.

Perhaps it is made good after what ever happened.

You can't actually see the rear of the trailer to see how it's strapped so really as ever it's gossip and guesswork.

Only offence in the pictures based on the evidence is using mobile whilst driving.

You’d leave a lay-by with a load looking like that when you had a loader on the tractor? Surely anyone sensible would have given the bales a square up, if they’d cared at all. At the least I’d have taken off the dodgy ones and/ or waited for help before moving back to tarmac.

 

[kill]

This SAFE?

 

[Sid]

Blue tractor driver was stopped as feared an accident was about to happen due to an unsafe load

That's why the white line has disappeared from view and lay by had got closer.

 

[Sid]

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This SAFE?

Absolutely not as per below.

Blue tractor driver was stopped as feared an accident was about to happen due to an unsafe load

You don't really seem to know very much at all do you?

6 points £200 every time

 

[Sid]

You’d leave a lay-by with a load looking like that when you had a loader on the tractor? Surely anyone sensible would have given the bales a square up, if they’d cared at all. At the least I’d have taken off the dodgy ones and/ or waited for help before moving back to tarmac.

You obviously don't know the layby. I do. Completely unsafe to do anything like that.

 

[Highland Mule]

You obviously don't know the layby. I do. Completely unsafe to do anything like that.

I don’t know the lay-by, agreed. It’s safe to wait in though, until you can have someone arrive to be an escort/ second pair of eyes?

 

[Fendt516profi]

Absolutely not as per below.
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You don't really seem to know very much at all do you?

6 points £200 every time

Luckily there's no evidence of the offence and no way of telling who committed it

You obviously don't know the layby. I do. Completely unsafe to do anything like that.

Yes not safe to work in a live lane

 

[Sid]

I don’t know the lay-by, agreed. It’s safe to wait in though, until you can have someone arrive to be an escort/ second pair of eyes?

No.

Next to very busy 4 Crossway. Lots of RTCs have occurred there. Maybe there was an another vehicle assisting.

The OP wouldn't know that, or the reason why the load is like it is. Or what was done to secure.