What HP Tractor?

[dent]

You would not want to haul around our hills on hydraulic brakes especially a trailer on hydraulics.

 

 

We do it perfectly well on the south downs

The method of applying the brakes is irrelevant its the actual drums and shoes fitted that make the difference

Look under neath an air breaked silage or grain trailer and you will see the air piston and the hydraulic piston actuate the same leaver going into the brake drum for the s cam

Therefore it is completely irrelevant which you use air just operates quicker

And there are agricultural trailers on air with 4.5 inch brakes pads these would be worse for breaking than full width comercial drums with hydraulic pistons

We run 10 trailers at work and the ones with lorry axles and hydraulic brakes stop great

The ones with air and hydraulic that is standard on newer trailers is nothing like proper lorry breaking anyway

[renewablejohn]

Can only speak of the high mileage guys around here all having there dump trailers and low loaders converted to full commercial air brakes and its not a cheap conversion. In my mind that says it all.

[renewablejohn]

Explanation why trailer braking is important.

 

http://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/meetings/iacs/aiac/transport/151107/brakingresearch.pdf

[woody paul]

You would not want to haul around our hills on hydraulic brakes especially a trailer on hydraulics.

 

You are all on about brakes a tractor has a gear box that should be used on hill descents.

[fen01]

Explanation why trailer braking is important.

 

http://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/meetings/iacs/aiac/transport/151107/brakingresearch.pdf

 

That's write an interesting presentation. So... Now I've got to think a bit more about the trailer as well!

[joe p]

We run full commercial spec air behind the Unimog would not use anything else now for any real weight. All really depends on how fast you want to go with it all.

[agrimog]

speed doesnt come in to it, even after the change in RTA rules for tractors in england and wales earlier this year, your still limited to 25mph, end of, so it doesnt matter what gearbox, how many hp, or whether it has air brakes or not, unless you have suspension on each of the 4 wheels, you aint going any faster.......3points and £100 says so