Unimog cranes.

[shaggy]

To your question arborworks

 

“Is it possible to change our 150" 6x6 to an agricultural tax class & if so can you point us in the right direction”

 

Registering vehicles in the agricultural tax class is a bit of a grey area and you need to be ready to prove it is being used for an agricultural or forestry purpose in the event of being pulled over.

 

Please someone correct me if I am wrong.

 

To register the vehicle agricultural you need to send a copy of the vehicle log book along with a letter telling them what the vehicle is going to be used for, to your local dvla office. It is down to your local dvla office weather they think you have got enough reason to register it agriculturally.

 

Then if they let you register it agriculturally, to tax it you need to fill in a V112G form (Goods Vehicle Testing – Declaration of Exemption) and produce this when you come to tax the vehicle.

 

It took me many long phone calls this week to get this tiny bit of information. The dvla don’t seem to know their arse from their elbow.

[Rich Rule]

not exactly sure, neither is the driver. the system on the crane doesn't give you exact weight as does a conventional crane in relation to the extension etc. The driver operates the crane remotely and he only has sensors giving 70, 80, 90 % max load capacity. as i said it can be handy in certain situations but not ideal. IMO in the job pictured we were lifting some large lumps of black pop - maybe 1.5 ton - but this is guessing the weights.

[Quickthorn]

I would never buy a forwarding treailer for arb work, i'd get something like this much more versatile imo

 

Lee, do you know who the supplier is for that trailer in the pic you posted? That's the sort of thing I'm thinking of.

[Mr Ed]

Jas P wilson in Dumfries do them as part of their Botex range. Not cheap...

[Big 'Ammer]

Is it possible to change our 150" 6x6 to an agricultural tax claas & if so can you point us in the right direction

 

As I read it, and I'll be happy to be told I'm wrong, because its something I looked into a while back.

 

You can change a vehicle to agric class and use it for agricultural/horticultural/forestry purposes.

 

But then you are a tractor and can only officially go 20mph.

 

To go faster than 20mph - within the law - you have to have air brakes fitted to put you in the Fast Tractor category like a mog or a fastrac or a former HGV thats been reclassified.

 

Or fit them to your vehicle, but I guess you've spent plenty on it already.

 

I worked out I could buy a lot of white diesel for the price of an air brake conversion on a landy, so never took it any further.

 

It was as much to do with using it to tow a trailer with a post 97 license holder as saving money by running on red.

 

I do know people with land rovers taxed as tractors and running on red but they are using them as estate run arounds and keepers vehicles , but they are standard spec, not going too far and are therefore unlikely to be pulled up.

 

Your 6x6 is too eyecatching for the ministry men not to want to look at it.

 

Whenever we see a vosa checkpoint there is always a copper a mile or two away in a layby with a camera.

 

With number plate recognition etc, the checkpoint boys know your coming before you get pulled in - its not as 'random' as its made out to be.

 

If anyone knows more or different then lets hear it as I may well take another look at the project.

 

Sorry to have drifted away from the original topic!