Tractor Passenger Seat
- Thread starter MRT
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- South West
Don't see why not as they are available for purchase for most makes
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- Limousin
I would think it's Ok so long as it's a tractor that has/had the option of a passenger seat fitted. Interesting question for someone in the insurance industry.
2jags
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- Location
- Hertfordshire
I was under the impression that no person under the age of 14 was aloud in the cab of a moving /running machine ???? Either in the field or on the road.
- Location
- 200 miles N,NW of New York
think it is 13,
Exfarmer
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
Actually 13 for most parts of the country, except Norfolk, which has its own by law
Roy_H
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Well firstly I wont judge you about your Renault, we had a similar tractor and we were well pleased with it.
Secondly, I remember our Massey dealer telling me that a customer bought a new tractor off them and before they delivered it to him he called in with a brand new Britax childs car seat and asked them if they could possibly fit it in the cab pre delivery. As he said "If my little grandson is in the cab with me at least I know where he is!" Anyway just to be on The safe side they contacted The HSE who said "Not bloodly likely" (Or words to that effect ). Now that was many years ago but no doubt since then the laws could be the same if nor even stricter about retro-fitting a seat in a tractor cab?
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Ask yourself where you would rather they be:
In the cab beside you on a seat, or running around outside getting into the blind spots?
Would you let your children go and play in the traffic in town?
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
Break out the zetor bus
Exfarmer
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
The law is the law, but I believe there are plenty of arguments for changing it.
Tractors have come a very long way since the days of sitting on a mudgaurd or standing on the drawbar, with very little to cling on to.
A child strapped in a proper seat as in a car must be safer than running around the yard.
However , this is a long way from allowing a youngster to have control.
Tractors have come a very long way since the days of sitting on a mudgaurd or standing on the drawbar, with very little to cling on to.
A child strapped in a proper seat as in a car must be safer than running around the yard.
However , this is a long way from allowing a youngster to have control.
- Location
- South West
The police have no issues if seat belts are fitted tho and on the road I guess they have more powers.
Can anyone remember the "Low Profile 6150r" thread on here? I was talking to the guy that was driving that recently and he was exceptionally glad his young daughter wasn't in the cab the day the slurry tanker took charge of the tractor as she would be very lucky if she was still here after that.
The Renault passenger seat for that model was against the left hand widow I believe with a curved plastic coated grab rail.
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
Have you got or do you know the full definition of that law?
Pheasant Surprise
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- Location
- Woodbridge, Suffolk
Prevention of Accidents to Children in Agriculture Regulations 1988 (PACAR)
https://www.nfuonline.com/assets/7222
http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg472.pdf
Edit: exF was being facetious about the Norfolk bylaw. Need your irony detector on.
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- Location
- the brecks norfolk
I was trying to be cleaver but my dry norfolk wit got lost in forum world.
Thanks all. I will give up on the idea and tell the young one to toughen up!
Looking back now I see I was born into a life of crime.... what chance did I have?
As Judas Priest would say:
"So much for the golden future, I can't even start my tractor,
I've had every promise broken, there's anger in my heart
you don't know what it's like, you don't have a clue
if you did you'd find yourselves doing the same thing too"
"Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law"
Looking back now I see I was born into a life of crime.... what chance did I have?
As Judas Priest would say:
"So much for the golden future, I can't even start my tractor,
I've had every promise broken, there's anger in my heart
you don't know what it's like, you don't have a clue
if you did you'd find yourselves doing the same thing too"
"Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law"
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Exfarmer
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
I was not being facetious, but I may be wrong, as I understood there was a by law in Norfolk forbidding childrn of under 14 on agricultural machinery.
Pheasant Surprise
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- Location
- Woodbridge, Suffolk
That's weird.
- Location
- North West
I could be wrong but when I was serving my time as an ag tech I was told that tractors don't have passenger seats they are training seats purely for tuition! Not sure what the law states about this though.
multi power
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- Location
- pembrokeshire
Fudge the law I say, I have a passenger seat for my 6 year old, when he is sitting next to me I KNOW he is not in danger of getting run overThanks all. I will give up on the idea and tell the young one to toughen up!
Looking back now I see I was born into a life of crime.... what chance did I have?
As Judas Priest would say:
"So much for the golden future, I can't even start my tractor,
I've had every promise broken, there's anger in my heart
you don't know what it's like, you don't have a clue
if you did you'd find yourselves doing the same thing too"
"Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law"