Wreckers!!

[Turnip]

It would be interesting to know if these drivers were the farmers or just staff sent out with no equipment to do the job properly?
I can't see many 18 year olds telling the boss they're not going to cart bales unless they have all the straps and everything's road legal.
With no training or tests required how would a newbie even know what was right, especially if the boss told them they didn't need to bother and hurry up the job needs doing now.

Ignorance as an excuse especially when the points are going on your license, not the bosses. You make a great point and probably close to the truth in many cases but the stupidity of people never ceases to amaze me. I've done some stupid sh#t in my young life but also walked away from a couple of bosses who told me to just get on with it. In one case I did apologize to the gaffer as I found out he was right in that it was a legal way but just wasn't comfortable doing it.

 

[Fendt516profi]

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stopped in Norfolk any guesses as to why

Not stopped it's traveling under armed police escort as it's so valuable

 

[yellowbelly]

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stopped in Norfolk any guesses as to why

Coppers we're stunned to see a load of bales actually sitting on a trailer that wasn't upside down in some poor sod's garden.

Probably asking the driver if he'll lecture at the next 'bale carting awareness course' they're running for Fastrac and Fendt drivers.

 

[Sid]

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stopped in Norfolk any guesses as to why

Illegal to use round bales because you can't over load it like squares and lie it in someone's garden.

 

[Gadget]

Motorway & no rope?

 

[Oliveau]

Motorway & no rope?

Norfolk - Motorway? You cannot be serious!

Probably Sandringham Estate straw under police escort, and Andrew Duke of York hiding in the bales.

 

[7610 super q]

My 2p worth.......firm round bales on a wide bed trailer, with one row down the middle holding them on with no straps, will fair better than 4 square bales high strapped.
# Prepares for severe pooh-poohing from armchair Hercule Poirot's on a mildly mediocre farming forum #

 

[Gadget]

Norfolk - Motorway? You cannot be serious!

Probably Sandringham Estate straw under police escort, and Andrew Duke of York hiding in the bales.

I thought that it looked like a hard shoulder! Here we are surrounded by motorways so we take them for granted

 

[Turnip]

My 2p worth.......firm round bales on a wide bed trailer, with one row down the middle holding them on with no straps, will fair better than 4 square bales high strapped.
# Prepares for severe pooh-poohing from armchair Hercule Poirot's on a mildly mediocre farming forum #

Think you are right that it is the least bad of two options, but still bad.

 

[Will 1594]

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stopped in Norfolk any guesses as to why

Come on then open up the rest of story ,
No hardship throwing a rope over Bsles
Could be for a number of reasons

 

[7610 super q]

Did the chap go against the flow and pay a fair price for the straw ?

 

[betweenthelines]

TBH that load looks fairly stable to me. The problem for the driver is that being "unsecured" gives the police a reason to pull you over and go through everything with a fine toothed comb if they feel like it.

I'd also say that I suspect there's a higher percentage of "insecure" loads on flatbed or low sided trucks (eg Builders Merchants with big bags of sand etc) than on farm vehicles.

 

[roscoe erf]

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stopped in Norfolk any guesses as to why

yep gravity is not a recognised load securing device fined and made to strap load

 

[primmiemoo]

Underage driver?

 

[Green&Steam]

40ft bed,+dolly/drawbar,+ tractor= over length

 

[box]

Young or old, you'd have to be f*cking thick to drive that on the road and expect to get away with it. Impound the tractor and the trailer, that'll teach the dumb hicks and stop them doing it again.

 

[agrimax]

Underage driver?

No.Insecure load. No straps or ropes...nothing apart from gravity.

 

[Will 1594]

Young or old, you'd have to be f*cking thick to drive that on the road and expect to get away with it. Impound the tractor and the trailer, that'll teach the dumb hicks and stop them doing it again.

And green and steam

 

[bumkin]

40ft bed,+dolly/drawbar,+ tractor= over length

I think the lack of straps was the reason for pulling him over why make it obvious by not fastening down the load I very much doubt they would notice the length of the vehicle till they pulled him over. what I don't understand is why he has gone to all that trouble to make a forty-foot trailer and paint it but not put lades on it so he only has 29 bales on it with lades I get30 on a twenty-four-foot trailer two rows on end two on their sides and a row down the middle

 

[Sid]

I think the lack of straps was the reason for pulling him over why make it obvious by not fastening down the load I very much doubt they would notice the length of the vehicle till they pulled him over. what I don't understand is why he has gone to all that trouble to make a forty-foot trailer and paint it but not put lades on it so he only has 29 bales on it with lades I get30 on a twenty-four-foot trailer two rows on end two on their sides and a row down the middle

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