Towing a chipper behind a trailer?!

[hugo p]

Right kids.....everyone seems to have different opinions.....I have a braked tipping trailer....could I...if a tow ball was suitably attached to the trailer, drag my braked chipper behind the trailer...loaded or unloaded?!!

[treequip]

Not legal on UK roads

[hugo p]

Ah nuts!

[biggarlogs]

Behind a tractor maybe but not a commercial vehicle

[treequip]

Its a bit obvious when you think about it, you don't see it happening and if it were legal everyone would be at it

 

Have a look at show mans licence for a bit of fun

[walkerboys]

Show mans liecense artic wagon 50-60ft trailer ride thing and then a 30ft carvan on the back

[Billy68]

As above

[Stoatally]

Yup

 

AS far as I an remember only showmans guild and farmers are allowed to tow anything behind a trailer. They did look at proper road trains a few years ago but decided against it

[renewablejohn]

You can do it behind a tractor so long as the trailer is unladen and the overall length is within a certain limit.

[Justme]

Whilst the advice give is correct its not the full picture.

 

If the first trailer is taking some of the load of the second trailer & the first is specificaly made to do so it is allowed. This was really for turntable type trailers & recovery vehicles.

 

A heavy motor car or a motor car not

described in item 1, 3 or 4 can tow:- 2 trailers if one of them is a towing implement and part of

the other is secured to and either rests on or is suspended

from that implement

1 trailer in any other case

 

Its all in regulation 83 of the Road

Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 (C&U), as amended.

 

4. Towing implements.

A ‘heavy motor car’ or ‘motor car’ (e.g. the motor vehicle forming part of an articulated vehicle) may only

draw one trailer. The exception to this rule is that such a vehicle may draw two trailers in situations where

one of the trailers is a towing implement and part of the other is secured to and rests on or is suspended from

that implement.

A towing implement is defined in regulation 3 (of C&U) as: “a device on wheels designed for the purpose of

enabling a motor vehicle to draw another vehicle by the attachment of that device to that other vehicle in

such a manner that part of that other vehicle is secured to and either rests on or is suspended from the

device and some but not all of the wheels on which that other vehicle normally runs are raised off the

ground.”

Towing implements are a device constructed and used for the special purpose of vehicle recovery. In

recognition of this, regulation 4(4), item 7 in the table, and regulation 4(5) of C&U provide exceptions for such

devices from the full requirements of C&U. These exceptions allow the device to be constructed and used in

such a way that enables the recovery of broken down vehicles.

 

So in your case no you cant tow the chipper behind the trailer.

Edited October 1, 2015 by Justme