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<blockquote data-quote="DrWazzock" data-source="post: 7404201" data-attributes="member: 2119"><p>They've never tested my sprayer brakes, lights, indicators or steering during the "MOT". They take my word for it that they do work and they are right to do so. But it just makes the £250 fee seem even more of a rip off. Its basically for holding a jug and reading a stopwatch and testing my pressure gauge against the dubious looking one in the van.</p><p>On my small acreage the £250 annual sprayer MOT charge would probably keep the sprayer in spares and fuel for the year. It's a 24m sprayer doing 200 acres per year at the most. Maybe 5 passes, so 1000 acres sprayed then it needs another test. Its a sprayer, not the space shuttle.</p><p>And I need NRoSO points so its another £30 for the online update and half a day messing about on the screen. And on and on it goes.</p><p>With one thing and another it gets to the point where you wonder if its really worth the bother at all. I think that's what they want really. pee off all the small farmers with red tape and irritating picky little hoops and jobs so they pack up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrWazzock, post: 7404201, member: 2119"] They've never tested my sprayer brakes, lights, indicators or steering during the "MOT". They take my word for it that they do work and they are right to do so. But it just makes the £250 fee seem even more of a rip off. Its basically for holding a jug and reading a stopwatch and testing my pressure gauge against the dubious looking one in the van. On my small acreage the £250 annual sprayer MOT charge would probably keep the sprayer in spares and fuel for the year. It's a 24m sprayer doing 200 acres per year at the most. Maybe 5 passes, so 1000 acres sprayed then it needs another test. Its a sprayer, not the space shuttle. And I need NRoSO points so its another £30 for the online update and half a day messing about on the screen. And on and on it goes. With one thing and another it gets to the point where you wonder if its really worth the bother at all. I think that's what they want really. pee off all the small farmers with red tape and irritating picky little hoops and jobs so they pack up. [/QUOTE]
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