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Just make sure if you use that hitch that the trailer has a rotating hitch fitted & you have unlocked it.

With your standard Cat B licence & that car you might be able to go as high as a 1500kg MAM trailer. You cant have a car & trailer combination of up to 3500kg GTW (thats the MAM of the car & the MAM of the trailer added together). Or a car up to 3500kg & a 750kg trailer. Do you know the MAM of the car? The kerb weight is about 1500kg So I would expect it to be about 2000-2100kg. That leaves 1400-1500kg for the trailer.

Looks like they are trying to get round the trailer testing regulations too, claiming its been made from an old trailer base frame. The pic is the 3500kg one too.

I dont like the last one. All that is stopping the ball lifting is a small pin in shear. The type you get from agri places have a threaded portion & a nut to stop it lifting. You wont find a pin that will take a NATO hitch. Just change the trailers hitch to a standard one if you are happy with the trailer.

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If powering from a supply that is too powerful you need a proportional control splitter. That will lower the flow so stop over heating or over action of the pressure release valve.

Without the % they start at does knowing they have lost X% help?

We have the SFW212. You can get a wood burning plate for it if you dont have it already. Ours does all our winter:- cooking, domestic hot water & heating. It heats a thermal store that supplies the rads & hotwater. Our rad demand is quite low at a total of 2500watts output & only on for 3 hours a day tops, normally less. Outside of winter it does spring / autumn doing the same but not rads & the water gets help via the solar thermal tubes. Its also not on every day if we can manage without it. In summer its only on if the solar tubes dont supply enough hot water.

Not my area of work so I dont know, sorry. Under 3500kg is non tacho & non O licence. Working hours regs is something I have tried to keep out off. If you think needing a tacho or not is complex then working hours regs is even worse. Lots of if's, what if's & conditional on's.

Does not matter as the delivery is part of the sale. You are delivering items you sold. If that is your worry then just put it in your T&C's that until transfer of good to them the stock remains your property. Its only when you deliver my items its a problem.

Thats a whole new can of worms. Prob even a box full of worm cans. Remember its not how its licensed but how its used that will count.

The three opinions that matter are DVSA Police Courts As the DVSA are the governing body the police turn to them in these cases. In all case you want to keep it out of court, so go with the DVSA's opinion. Their opinion matches mine. So hire & reward is the defining statement, if your not then you dont need one. so look very clear to me. Your goods is not hire or reward. Its "operating on your own account". However I respect your right to define it how you see fit & spend money on having a tacho fitted you dont legally need.

It is. Even if you are tacho exempt you still need to account & record ALL the working hours you do (even non driving ones) as you are still covered by the EU or UK working hours regs. The record must be in the vehicle at all times. From memory the fine for non compliance is in the region of £5k.

However the guidance does say "goods you own, or goods you have used or will use in the course of your work" Its possible a smart barrister would be able to argue that arrisings are goods you have used in the course of your work. However ideally you want to win the case before it even starts at the roadside stop, as once its gone to court only the legal bods win.

Correct if its your firewood you are carrying. However thats not me saying it. Its the DVSA (VOSA). They clearly say that in the linked documents.

The forestry exemption is the carriage of other peoples goods up to 100km radius from base. You can already carry your own goods/tools this far. If none of the exemptions apply then as soon as you drive out the gate you need the tacho. So as an arborist if you are carrying my wood under contract you need a tacho. If you are carrying your wood or tools you dont if within 100km radius of base. I do not know what arrisings would be classed as & it might depend if they are yours or you are disposing of them for the client. Your contract with the client should define this. IE charge for removal or pay for product. I would think that if you are taking them to the tip then a tacho would be needed as they are not yours but you are carrying them for me for a fee. Taking them back to base to further process for sale I would think that they are yours & so you are still exempt. The courts might feel differently. The police or DVSA might during a road side stop might feel differently.

I will post it up in a min. (done) That is the DVSA definition. See attached docs. That is not the definition that DVSA use. Cant find the file that gives the examples re hire or reward at the min but will soon, so will post it when I do. Found it. Also attached. this is the info Check example 6 of the hire or reward attachment. See attached PDF re 100km exemptions. See second PDF on page 15 (the regs have increased the 50km to 100km) I have also attached a self declaration form for you to fill in & keep in the cab. The phrase to use during a road side stop is "operating on your own account" which is NOT Hire or Reward. The quote is re O licencee but its the same definition used for Tacho as well as its the same department (DVSA now not VOSA). All info is my personal opinion, do not rely on it in a legal case. Please check the facts for yourself. Only a court can decide what the legislation actually means. small-trailer-leaflet hire or reward.pdf rules-on-drivers-hours-and-tachographs-goods-vehicles-in-gb-and-europe.pdf tachograph_exemption_declaration.docx Tacho 100km rules.pdf

The tacho regs gives an exemption for carrying your own goods even for sale. They also give forestry an exemption for carrying other people goods for haulage. Both limited to 100km RADIUS from your main base. If you want a radius tool look at this website HERE Hire & Reward does not mean making or charging money. Its means haulage or courier / delivery jobs. Like Hiring a taxi or paying a courier. Delivery of your own goods is not hire or reward.

You need to be able to see effectively down both sides. So wide cars & narrow trailers are not a problem. Car & trailers that are the same size would benifit from extra mirrors especially if its a box type trailer so that you can angle them in to see behind you. Wide trailers need extra mirrors. The requirement is that you can see 20m behind & 4M wide to the sides of the trailer. If you cant then you need mirrors.

Actual real weight minimum is 800kg with a minimum plated weight of 1000kg. All trailers even if they weigh more than the minimum must have a specified load of either of these:- 1 x 1000L IBC filled with water 1 x 600L IBC filled with water Pre bagged aggregates in clear sealed weighed & labeled bags with all bags weighing the same totaling 600kg. All must be secured in trailer safely.

More likely they dint fit mirrors for the examiner. Unless the trailer was much wider than the car.

1, Yes but check your insurance. 2, Cameras are ok, why would you need low ratio? 3, Plus add the required weight that has to be as specified. 4, Yes if you add the right load. 5, Message me your email & I will send you the info.

I teach it so ask away.

Re two trailers see attached PDF. As you can see not every vehicle can tow a trailer never mind two of them. Tractors can tow two trailers if they are both unladen or one trailer (does not specify unladen so laden is ok) & one implement or two implements. towing two trailers.pdf

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. Its all in regulation 83 of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 (C&U), as amended. So in your case no you cant tow the chipper behind the trailer.