firewood available chantly doncastor

[mdt]

How do you know it was towed on a highway?

 

 

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Well it does look like a road beyond the gateway! ;-)

[Goaty]

How do you know it was towed on a highway?

 

 

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It is common practice and in the uk telehandlers by quirk of law are classed as mobile cranes ie plant equiptment. Even if the have hydraulic brakes fitted.

 

It is dangerous due to transmissions on handlers not being built for it and visibility is lopsidedly poor. You also meet them coming down the road with 4 wheel steer engaged fishtailing a trailer, or with a large bucket on front with a trailer behind with handler steering set out of true alignment.

Best time to spot them is at harvest with an old condemned artic trailer on a dolly with large bales stacked to the max and no straps or ropes.

 

As for me knowing it was going on the road, it was a logical assumption I deduced from the facts that

 

1. The firewood was advertised on here so it wasnt likely a case of the farmer next door coming across his own field. Because that would of most likely been dealt with without forum advertising.

 

2. There must be a little distance involved as the taker of wood would of brought a tractor and handler leaving the handler just to load and tractor to cart and tip. I dont know a farmer who has a handler and not a tractor.

 

Whilst this would not stand up in court, that is the reason I put "Highway" in original comment, because on your own land you can put what you like behind a telehandler. I was clarifying.

 

Im not trying to be pedantic or troublesome. I realise things are quite different down there in Dunedin, a personal favourite place of mine.

I hope it helps to explain.

[Alycidon]

I did not realise that it is illegal. Visibility from a tele-porter is a bit iffy but a decent set of mirrors makes it as good as most HGVs. Cant say I would like 14 tonnes behind me with one though but I would not think twice about half that weight.

 

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