Wreckers!!

[betweenthelines]

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Take a look at the road in front of the tractor. There are traffic calming measures (speed humps to you and me) that even for a well secured load would cause a lot of sideways movement when a trailer wheel hits one.

 

[Davey]

B


One of 3 things they passed the test, exempt or don’t give a f

They'll care a lot more if they try to brake hard

 

[JP1]

https://www.facebook.com/bbceastmids/photos/a.216353105048454/5021301107886939

 

[JWL]

https://www.facebook.com/bbceastmids/photos/a.216353105048454/5021301107886939

Must be one of those moonlighting Fendt drivers

 

[fieldfarmer]

Must be one of those moonlighting Fendt drivers

Excellent point, if the answer to all these agricultural straw trailers going over is more training and tighter regulations and more rules why is this still happening in the hgv sector?

 

[7610 super q]

As above, can't understand all this palaver over scrapping trailer tests. The standard of HGV driving is shocking anyway. Might as well just have a free for all and be done with it.....

 

[fieldfarmer]

As above, can't understand all this palaver over scrapping trailer tests. The standard of HGV driving is shocking anyway. Might as well just have a free for all and be done with it.....

Indeed, the insurance companys will soon price the cowboys out the job.

 

[Bald n Grumpy]

Indeed, the insurance companys will soon price the cowboys out the job.

Don't believe that for a minute, we'll all end up paying

 

[thorpe]

https://www.facebook.com/bbceastmids/photos/a.216353105048454/5021301107886939

been hearing about this all day on the radio, local farmer helped to rescue the cattle (good of him) some had to be put down, happened at 4.30 this morning , last i heard road still closed.

 

[Sid]

https://www.facebook.com/bbceastmids/photos/a.216353105048454/5021301107886939

Professional driver no doubt

 

[ridger]

been hearing about this all day on the radio, local farmer helped to rescue the cattle (good of him) some had to be put down, happened at 4.30 this morning , last i heard road still closed.

I absolutely hate and dread driving double deckers. One mistake and its into a swing like a pendulum. I'd go anywhere with a lorry and drag single deck but can't abide deckers

 

[Treecreeper]

Meneage street Helston, yesterday.

 

[primmiemoo]

All I can think is thank flip the bales didn't come off on one of the hills!

 

[Zebbedee]

Meneage street Helston, yesterday.

Looks like guy didn’t even notice he has lost his load, nowhere to be seen anyway

 

[Fendt516profi]

Squirrel 1 farmer 0, so I’m told by his son

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Was the father giving the son squirrel chasing lessons?

Somebody's lesson's are going well. . .

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[B'o'B]

 

[farmerm]

Was the father giving the son squirrel chasing lessons?

Nope his son has been chasing squirrels for at least 35 years

 

[Andrew1983]

https://www.facebook.com/bbceastmids/photos/a.216353105048454/5021301107886939

Been at a lorry load of cows an calves on its side this summer then a tractor trailer load of ewes this week. Both pretty hellish things to deal with for all attending and especially the driver…. Dealing with the disaster when you desperatly want to get stock out, while under scrutiny off everyone around is serious pressure. The HGV clipped a soft verge and went over on a quiet country road, country folk had it pretty much sorted out without public interference. The sheep one this week was on about the busiest A road about, traffic chaos and public….. Lucky it happened right next to a farm who had a float to get them out and away relatively quickly but there were losses in both cases.

I came away from that 1 thinking we need to weld some form of lugs on the side of our Stewart float as the straps had broken on the (Marshall) float, the container had slid off on the roundabout and on its side. A couple lugs like you see on tattie trailers would have stopped that. Boy was bloody lucky it never landed on either a car or any pedestrians on the pavement.

It’s one thing tipping a trailer on the road (Thankfully not something I have achieved) but 100x worse when it’s loaded with livestock.

 

[fieldfarmer]

Been at a lorry load of cows an calves on its side this summer then a tractor trailer load of ewes this week. Both pretty hellish things to deal with for all attending and especially the driver…. Dealing with the disaster when you desperatly want to get stock out, while under scrutiny off everyone around is serious pressure. The HGV clipped a soft verge and went over on a quiet country road, country folk had it pretty much sorted out without public interference. The sheep one this week was on about the busiest A road about, traffic chaos and public….. Lucky it happened right next to a farm who had a float to get them out and away relatively quickly but there were losses in both cases.

I came away from that 1 thinking we need to weld some form of lugs on the side of our Stewart float as the straps had broken on the (Marshall) float, the container had slid off on the roundabout and on its side. A couple lugs like you see on tattie trailers would have stopped that. Boy was bloody lucky it never landed on either a car or any pedestrians on the pavement.

It’s one thing tipping a trailer on the road (Thankfully not something I have achieved) but 100x worse when it’s loaded with livestock.

With sheep you literally have seconds to get them out before some suffocate under the weight of the others, if safe to do so get someone to pull the rear do open with a strap and get them up the verge as a first priority after checking on the drivers wellbeing.

 

[bumkin]

many years ago we were loading pigs my wife came out said can Roy come to the phone we went up to the house he answered the phone and went white and started to shout a whole lot of profanity apparently one of his drivers had pulled off the road to let a car past the truck slipped into the ditch and went on its side this was a six-wheeler double-decker loaded with weaners and they decided to let them out, anyone who has kept pigs can imagine the fun they had rounding that lot up