Tractor on Motorway cops tonight Channel 5

steveR

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Mixed Farmer
I think the responsibility lies more with his boss/dad/whatever. When you were 16 you didn't often have the confidence to argue the toss when you were told to do something.
100%

I would have liked the copper to have asked Dad to pop out and have a chat with him... And of course, that was agricultural usage... :unsure:

Methinks a VOSA type wallah might not have been so understanding....
 
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Lowland1

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shouldn't be allowed to drive on roads at that age with that power and weight behind you in my humble opinion different story 40 years ago
40 years ago we were using converted lorry trailers 10 tonne load on a single axle with a Ford 4000 and 14-15 on a twin axle on a 6600 with brakes worked by pulling the lift lever. If you could get them out of seventh you were doing well.
 

flowerpot

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My OH bought a tractor from a farm sale and decided to drive it back home. He got completely lost and confused at Gloucester and ended up going down the slip road onto the M5. Fortunately a lorry driver saw what was happening and stopped him before he actually got onto the motorway, and he managed to reverse back up to the roundabout. It was a close call. In the days before Sat Navs and there must have been a lot less traffic about than now.

I think I wrote a letter to Gloucestershire County Council about the lack of signs for non-motorway traffic but I don't recall getting a reply.
 

Netherfield

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West Yorkshire
Well the lad hasn't tipped it over on a roundabout, stoved it into a ditch, wedged it under a bridge, nor driven into a leccy pole in the middle of a 50 acre field yet. So he's got a better track record than 50% of other drivers. :)
Fixed that for you.

I thought the copper was pretty fair to be honest, might have been different if the camera wasn't there.
 
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Lincsman

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Lincolnshire
How much weight of stone/soil can you get on one?
I assume you have a fair idea if you say you can’t overload them.
They are supposed to carry 10 tonne, I am told this is worked out on the heaviest stuff known, Irish clay, mine has had 200mm greedy boards added and well loaded just about gets 10 tonne of stone in, 5 tonne of wheat max.
 

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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