Dangerous Agricultural / Forestry Vehicles

[s.varty]

Bit of a grey area really as they don't need an mot/test. Who,s to blame for an un road worthy agg vehicle? the farmer ? he,s not a mechanic/mot tester.

 

Sure, but MOT is meaningless anyway really- its valid for about the day of the test, if your brakes fail 8 months down the line you can hardly turn around and say "it passed its MOT though" accidents happen- but bady secured loads- speeding- lack of lights etc all come down to operator error and should be fined/banned IMO

 

Agree, unsecured loads/speeding are down to the driver and no one else, and can kill.

[ben_inthewoods]

Farming is still subject to PUWER Regs so a dangerous agri vehicle could or should lead to sanction.....but no policing leads to these problems, not the right priorities in the HSE?

[s.varty]

A lot of laws are not implemented to agg vehicles as they have always been very slow vehicles I,e a bald tyre is not a problem as the tractor only travels at max 26mph, but nowadays we are talking 50 k and I believe fastrack are doing a 80k tractor. Tractors have evolved into slow lorries but the law is still in the 40s/50s fordsons etc

[brynseiri]

Exactly the same thing happened to me on a roundabout in Tottenham, a brick lodged between the twin wheels of a 6 wheeler, had to smash a hole in the windscreen so I could see up the m1, wasn't as graphic as that though..................

 

Was that an ag vehicle?

 

 

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[s.varty]

Was that an ag vehicle?

 

 

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Mine : no a hilux, six wheeler: no , run of the mill tipper.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

That's a trailer mounted stock box, hope there was no livestock being carted on that trip !

In farming we are so bad at keeping things roadworthy. Don't think much will change whilst 90% of the time we get away with it.

 

There was a separate report of stock loose on the same road. Too much of a coincidence not to be the same incident?

[brynseiri]

Mine : no a hilux, six wheeler: no , run of the mill tipper.

 

So it wasn't a scrounging, lowlife, subsidy grabbing, corrupt farmer, who when not robbing society is out on his tractor to murder your family with his dangerous vehicle that flung the brick at your motor? Can I ask you a question, do you hold a HGV licence and CPC card?

 

 

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[kevinjohnsonmbe]

So it wasn't a scrounging, lowlife, subsidy grabbing, corrupt farmer, who when not robbing society is out on his tractor to murder your family with his dangerous vehicle that flung the brick at your motor? Can I ask you a question, do you hold a HGV licence and CPC card?

 

 

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Light blue touch paper and stand well back.......

[Ian C]

I'm not a mechanic or mot tester but I have a very good idea on the state of my trucks and trailer, farmers choose not to bother as "ittal bee reet"

[s.varty]

So it wasn't a scrounging, lowlife, subsidy grabbing, corrupt farmer, who when not robbing society is out on his tractor to murder your family with his dangerous vehicle that flung the brick at your motor? Can I ask you a question, do you hold a HGV licence and CPC card?

 

 

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Reading through your post im guessing you don't really care for the farming community? But the brick that went through my windscreen wasn't thrown by some lowlife scum , but was simply an accident. Don't have an hgv or cpc?